It seems as if I’ve “known” Kathleen Kaska forever, although we’ve never met outside of social media and shared emails. All that’s going to change this year at Left Coast Crime Vancouver, where we will both be attending as authors. Until then, allow me to introduce her latest novel in the Kara Caraway Animal-Rights Mystery series.
Author Name: Kathleen Kaska
Book Title: A Two Horse Town: A Kate Caraway Animal-Rights Mystery
Book Genre: Mystery
Release Date: December 29, 2018
Publisher: Black Opal Books
About the Book: Kate Caraway hates giving lectures at the University of Illinois so much that she fears she’ll lose her mind. So, when a student, Nate Springfield, walks into her office with a story of wild horses in danger, Kate takes an immediate leave of absence. Forty-eight hours later, she arrives in Two Horse, Montana, one of the most rugged and isolated areas in the state. In a race against time, she uses her expertise and influence as a well-respected animal-rights activist to assist Nate’s eighty-two-year-old great-grandmother, Ida, in saving her herd of wild mustangs. If the county’s proposal to dam the Crow River passes, Ida’s water source will disappear. Her horses will be sold to the highest bidder and, most likely, turned into dog food. Before Kate can meet with a small coalition of citizens, who also stand to lose if the dam proposal passes, she stumbles upon a corpse with a knife wedged in his back. The dead man is Frank Springfield, Ida’s estranged son and her number-one enemy, a highly vocal member of the ranching community, who favors the dam. Since Nate is the last person to have seen his grandfather alive, the sheriff issues a warrant for his arrest, and the young man goes on the lam. Kate is convinced of his innocence and determined to prove it, but as she gets closer to truth, she discovers that some men will do anything, including murder, to keep their nefarious scheme from being exposed.
About the author: Kathleen Kaska is the author of the Kate Caraway Animal-Rights Mysteries, the awarding-winning 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 Arlingtonand 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. Visit her at: https://kathleenkaska.com/
I love that title! I wish you much luck with the new title, Kathleen!
Thanks for stopping by Kaye! I love the title too. So clever.
Sounds like an intriguing book. I always enjoy a mystery combined with issues important to the author.
Thanks for stopping by Grace. As an animal lover, this series really appeals to me.
Thanks for having me as a guest today, Judy.
My pleasure~
Thanks, Grace. My goal in writing the Kate Caraway Animal-Right’s Mystery series is to bring about awareness without preaching. A mystery is a perfect opportunity.
Thanks, Judy for sharing Kathleen’s novels. Being an animal person, they sound exciting! I would never have found these books with out your blog.
Sheri, this book is made for you! Hope you pick up a copy (as well as the first book in the series, Run, Dog, Run.) Thanks for stopping by.
Sheri, Judy has always been so supportive in sharing informative on newly released books. I love connecting with other who share my passion for animals.