A TWO HORSE TOWN by Kathleen Kaska
My latest mystery, A Two Horse Town, is the second book in
my Kate Caraway Animal-Rights Series. The idea for this series started forming
in my mind when I was a member of Wildlife Rescue, Inc in Austin, Texas where I
helped rehab and raise orphaned wildlife. So, I wanted to write a series that
made readers aware of animal-rights issues. The first book in the series, Run, Dog Run, published in 2017, takes
place in the world of greyhound racing.
While traveling through Montana
several years ago, I became aware of the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range,
which is a refuge for a herd of free-roaming mustangs. These horses have a
unique genetic makeup that doesn’t exist in other breeds. I began imagining
what would happen if their habitat were threatened, and the plot for A Two Horse Town unfolded from there.
The book, published by Black Opal Books, will be released on December 29.
Pre-orders for the eBook version are available on Amazon: Pre-orders.
The hardcover and paperback will be available soon.
Here’s a short blurb:
With her
coffee-guzzling dogs and a welcome mat that starts at the business end of a
shotgun, Ida Springfield weathers all the challenges life hands her. Until the
local government gets the idea to build a dam to help the ranchers, a dam that
would dry up the water on her ranch and destroy the habitat for the herd of
mustangs living there. After further alienating the "goofballs at town
hall," Ida lets go of her pride and accepts the help of animal rights
activist Kate Caraway. Kate feels a need to escape life in Chicago after so
many years in her beloved Africa. She's eager to get to Montana and find some
peace from rural surroundings. After tumbling down a mountain, finding a body,
and getting warned off by the mayor, Kate understands why her husband wants her
to come home. But Kate can't leave without saving the mustangs and helping the
82-year-old woman and her mentally challenged twin sister stand up to the town
bigwigs. To do that, she has to find out who killed Ida's estranged son and why
town officials believe her great-grandson committed the crime.
Bio:
Kathleen
Kaska is the author of two awarding-winning mystery series: the Sydney Lockhart
Mystery Series set in the 1950s and the Classic Triviography Mystery Series,
which includes The Sherlock Holmes
Triviography and Quiz Book. Her first two Lockhart mysteries, Murder at the Arlington and Murder at the Luther, were selected as
bonus-books for the Pulpwood Queen Book Group, the largest book group in the
country. Her latest Sydney Lockhart mystery, set in Austin, Texas, is Murder at the Driskill. Run Dog Run Kathleen’s first mystery in
the new Kate Caraway animal-rights series was released in March 2017. A Two Horse Town will be out on December
29.
When
she is not writing, she spends much of her time with her husband traveling the back roads and byways around the country,
looking for new venues for her mysteries and bird watching along the Texas
coast and beyond. It was her passion for birds that led to the publication The Man Who Saved the Whooping Crane: The
Robert Porter Allen Story (University Press of Florida).
Kathleen is a writer and marketing director for Cave Art
Press. Her collection of blog posts was released in August 2017 under the
title, Do You Have a Catharsis Handy? Five-Minute Writing Tips.
Comments
Glad you could help, and write a mystery series about it as well. Do you know Linda O. Johnson? She has a series on pet rescue (small animals).