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Stripped Bare (Kate Fox)
Women’s Detective Fiction
1st in Series
Setting – Nebraska
Publisher : Severn River Publishing (December 8, 2020)
Paperback : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 1648754120
ISBN-13 : 978-1648754128
Kindle ASIN : B08MT4KR8P
Audiobook ASIN B095KQFFYR
In this riveting novel from award-winning author Shannon Baker, a Nebraska county sheriff’s wife investigates a murder—and her husband is the prime suspect.
When Kate Fox receives a late-night phone call, her seemingly perfect life on the Nebraska prairie shatters in an instant.
Eldon, a shirt-tail relative and owner of one of the largest cattle ranches in Grand County, has been killed.
Kate’s husband, Ted, the Grand County Sheriff, has been shot and may never walk again.
And worst of all, Ted is the prime suspect in Eldon’s murder.
Desperate to clear Ted’s name, Kate throws herself headlong into the hunt for the real killer.
When Kate finds herself the victim of several mysterious “accidents” she knows she’s running out of time. If she doesn’t find out who killed Eldon soon, she—or someone else in town—may be the next to turn up dead.
But a shocking confession throws everything into doubt, and as Kate keeps digging she unearths unfathomable secrets—the kind worth killing for.
Dollycas’s Thoughts
Kate Fox works the family farm and her husband Ted is the sheriff in Grand County, Nebraska. Kate is right in the middle of calving season and Ted is in the middle of a campaign to keep his job. Their teenage niece Carly lives with them.
One night Kate returns to the house to hear a ringing phone, it was the sheriff’s phone that rings when Ted doesn’t answer his cell phone. She answers to hear a woman screaming. She recognized the voice, not one of her favorite people, but Roxy was calling for help. Rozy rapidly tells her father-in-law, Eldon Edwards is dead and that Kate’s husband Ted has been shot. Kate calls the sheriff from the neighboring county, Milo Ferguson while on her way to the scene. She arrived just in time to follow the ambulance to the hospital 90 miles away.
Then she found out Ted was Milo’s prime suspect and that Ted may never walk again. Determined to prove her husband’s innocence she barrells headlong into an investigation. An investigation that uncovers profound secrets. An investigation that could get her killed.
Kate Fox is a strong woman and a strong protagonist. Her entire life turns upside down when her husband is shot and she tries to find the person responsible. Ted is the sheriff of a vast territory in the Nebraska Sandhills. It’s a very low crime area and he had a very safe job until the day it wasn’t. Kate is part of a big close-knit loving family. Ted’s an only child with a very controlling mother. These characters are surrounded by a large supporting cast. All the characters are well-defined with purpose in the story. The core characters developed well throughout the book with room to grow as the series continues.
Ms. Baker has written a very complicated mystery with a plethora of twists and turns. What appeared to be a very easy case to solve truly wasn’t. Kate impressed me with her multitasking. She had a little help with the calves but her mother-in-law kept heaping things on her to do, all while trying to ascertain who killed Eldon, shot and framed her husband for the deed, and while trying to find her niece who has gone missing. I was as shocked as Kate when all was revealed.
Stripped Bare is a compelling mystery with a stellar protagonist in Kate Fox. The remote rural setting of the Nebraska Sandhills is unique with a wild west feel at times. The story dropped a few clues about Kate’s future and the final page had me smiling ear to ear. I have added the entire Kate Fox series to my wish list. I hope to read and review book 2, Dark Signal soon.
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About the Author
Shannon Baker is the award-winning author of The Desert Behind Me and the Kate Fox series, along with the Nora Abbott mysteries and the Michaela Sanchez Southwest Crime Thrillers. She is the proud recipient of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers 2014 and 2017-18 Writer of the Year Award. Baker spent 20 years in the Nebraska Sandhills, where cattle outnumber people by more than 50:1. She now lives on the edge of the desert in Tucson with her crazy Weimaraner and her favorite human. A lover of the great outdoors, she can be found backpacking, traipsing to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, skiing mountains and plains, kayaking lakes, river running, hiking, cycling, and scuba diving whenever she gets a chance. Arizona sunsets notwithstanding, Baker is, and always will be a Nebraska Husker. Go Big Red.
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