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The Killing Plains

By: Sherry Rankin
Narrated by: Traci Odom
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From the winner of the CWA’s Debut Dagger Award.

Two victims. Twenty years apart. One elusive killer.

Crescent Bluff, West Texas. Everybody knows everybody. And everybody has a secret.

When a boy is found dead with the skin of a hare’s head in his hand, everyone knows who killed him—Willis Newland, just released from prison after serving twenty years for an identical murder.

But what if everyone’s wrong?

Detective Colly Newland reluctantly agrees to investigate a case that seems to involve the whole town, including her dead husband’s extended family. But the deeper she digs, the more secrets she unearths. And as threats against her escalate, Colly realizes someone is willing to kill to keep theirs…

©2025 by Sherry Rankin. (P)2024 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Genre Fiction Mystery Police Procedurals Private Investigators Small Town & Rural

Critic reviews

“Red herrings and mysterious hints lead to a twisted killer.”—Library Journal
Intriguing Plot • Unexpected Twists • Excellent Narration • Engaging Mystery • Carefully Constructed Storyline
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really enjoyed the story it was just too many characters from my liking. and especially when you have a characters that sometimes you refer to them by their first name other times you refer to them by their last name. I had to reread chapters several times to figure out who we were talking about. but all in all it was a good book.

it was a really good story

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I really enjoyed the book. It flows nicely and I really like how Colly tied it all together in the end.

First time reading this author

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Good twists and kept me engaged - the rattlesnakes were a bit ridiculous but then again I am a NY girl so I have no idea what it’s like to live on a ranch in Texas

Kept my attention

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Loved this book. Kept me guessing till the end! And I was still wrong! Highly recommend

Great

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This book kept me captivated the whole time. Great audio narration! Would recommend this book

The haunting tale

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the plot was good and the story flowed well. The best narration I've heard in a long time. I live outside the town she lives in and I think she's done our area well. I'm ready for her to release another book🙂

Great book

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Fun detective book.
There’s no way you could know who done it till the very end, very surprising.

Family in relationships

I enjoyed this book

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I found the story to be very intriguing and kept listening to find out who was doing some of the spooky strange actions and I wanted to find out the true story about Willis. The outcome had some interesting twists to it and the only negative thing is I may have some nightmares about snakes, as this has been a childhood habit of mine and there’s several storylines in this book that were difficult for me to listen to, but it was important to the story. Narration was excellent. I would be glad to listen to another book from this author.

Interesting storyline, and a good mystery

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plot had a lot of twists. very engaging. looking forward to hearing more from her

plot twists

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Well organized and fun approach. Human faults and the interplay and how they were used to solve the case.

Detective methods and approach.

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