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"Texas Ranger Rory Yates protects his home state wearing a five-pointed silver badge and carrying a Sig Sauer. When a native woman disappears on the summer solstice, clues point to a cold case. Yates, a quick-draw champion, partners with expert archer Ava Cruz of the Tigua Tribal police. The investigation leads to the edges of Texas's most unforgiving landscape, where the officers take dead aim with every shot in their arsenals." -- Amazon.Tags
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Our intrepid Texas Ranger, Rory Yates is back for his third thriller.He meets Ava Cruz, a tribal police officer who challenges his assumptions about the Texas Rangers; Megan Casewick, a PhD student also intrigues him as does his former squeeze.Rory's got too many girlfriends! There are two intriguing parallel cases and they both get solved by the end of the book!
The Texas Murders – James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle
The Texas Murders by James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle is the third book in the Texas Ranger series and was first published in 2025. Another excellent thriller that once you get into the story you just cannot put it down.
Rory Yates is a Texas Ranger who has new crimes to investigate and new partners to work with Ranger Carlos Castillo and Tribal Police Officer Ava Cruz. While butting heads with FBI agent Ryan Logan, an agent in charge of a special task force investigating the epidemic of Native American women going missing each year in the United States.
Yates first meets Cruz and Logan at a law enforcement competition in Texas and does not hit it off with either person. He will show more have to work out this relationship as he will need both of them to solve the current epidemic of Native American women going missing. He is investigating the disappearance of two Native American women and needs to see if both cases are linked.
What they discover is that they are dealing with two very different crimes and both desperately need solving. Yates at the same time manages to win the respect of Cruz and many of the FBI agents on the task force he is on. But that does not make him popular with Logan.
As the cases come to a head, Yates need to use all the tact that he has alongside his shooting skills to save both him and Cruz. While shutting down partially one case in El Paso, Cruz and Yates solve the other case, almost by accident, even if it puts their lives in danger.
A good story once you get in to it. show less
The Texas Murders by James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle is the third book in the Texas Ranger series and was first published in 2025. Another excellent thriller that once you get into the story you just cannot put it down.
Rory Yates is a Texas Ranger who has new crimes to investigate and new partners to work with Ranger Carlos Castillo and Tribal Police Officer Ava Cruz. While butting heads with FBI agent Ryan Logan, an agent in charge of a special task force investigating the epidemic of Native American women going missing each year in the United States.
Yates first meets Cruz and Logan at a law enforcement competition in Texas and does not hit it off with either person. He will show more have to work out this relationship as he will need both of them to solve the current epidemic of Native American women going missing. He is investigating the disappearance of two Native American women and needs to see if both cases are linked.
What they discover is that they are dealing with two very different crimes and both desperately need solving. Yates at the same time manages to win the respect of Cruz and many of the FBI agents on the task force he is on. But that does not make him popular with Logan.
As the cases come to a head, Yates need to use all the tact that he has alongside his shooting skills to save both him and Cruz. While shutting down partially one case in El Paso, Cruz and Yates solve the other case, almost by accident, even if it puts their lives in danger.
A good story once you get in to it. show less
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James Patterson was born in Newburgh, New York, on March 22, 1947. He graduated from Manhattan College in 1969 and received a M. A. from Vanderbilt University in 1970. His first novel, The Thomas Berryman Number, was written while he was working in a mental institution and was rejected by 26 publishers before being published and winning the Edgar show more Award for Best First Mystery. He is best known as the creator of Alex Cross, the police psychologist hero of such novels as Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls. Cross has been portrayed on the silver screen by Morgan Freeman. He has had eleven on his books made into movies and ranks as number 3 on the Hollywood Reporter's '25 Most Powerful Authors' 2016 list. He also writes the Women's Murder Club series, the Michael Bennett series, the Maximum Ride series, Daniel X series, the Witch and Wizard series, BookShots series, Private series, NYPD Red series, and the Middle School series for children. He has won numerous awards including the BCA Mystery Guild's Thriller of the Year, the International Thriller of the Year award, and the Reader's Digest Reader's Choice Award. James Patterson introduced the Bookshots Series in 2016 which is advertised as All Thriller No Filler. The first book in the series, Cross Kill, made the New York Times Bestseller list in June 2016. The third and fourth books, The Trial, and Little Black Dress, made the New York Times Bestseller list in July 2016. The next books in the series include, $10,000,000 Marriage Proposal, French Kiss, Hidden: A Mitchum Story (co-authored with James O. Born). and The House Husband (co-authored Duane Swierczynski). Patterson's novel, co-authored with Maxine Paetro, Woman of God, became a New York Times bestseller in 2016. Patterson co-authored with John Connoly and Tim Malloy the true crime expose Filthy Rich about billionaire convicted sex offender Jeffrey Eppstein. In January 2017, he co-authored with Ashwin Sanghi the bestseller Private Delhi. And in August 2017, he co-authored with Richard Dilallo, The Store. The Black Book is a stand-alone thriller, co-authored by James Patterson and David Ellis. In April 2018, he co-authored Texas Ranger with Andrew Bourelle. In May 2018, he co-authored Private Princess with Rees Jones. In August 2018 he co-authored Fifty Fifty with Candice Fox. (Bowker Author Biography) James Patterson is the author of seven major national bestsellers in a row. These include "Along Came a Spider", "Kiss the Girls", "Jack & Jill", "Cat & Mouse", "When the Wind Blows", "Pop Goes the Weasel", &, in paperback, "The Midnight Club". A past winner of the prestigious Edgar Award, Patterson lives in Florida. (Publisher Provided) show less
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- The Texas Murders
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- 2025-01-02
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