Dyer Straights

“In Dyer County, Nevada, FBI Special Agent Mike Yeager is running from the tragic results of a child-kidnapping case he recently mishandled back in Philadelphia,” writes David Thayer in his new January Magazine review of The Shadow Catchers, a novel by Thomas Lakeman. “He thinks a trip to southern Nevada to photograph the Sangre de los Niños Mountains at sunset might help him forget that investigation as well as the woman--fellow agent Peggy Weaver--he left behind. But Yeager has chosen a harsh environment in which to rekindle his spirit.” And there’s little chance of his finding peace out West, as his pursuit of a missing girl makes him a murder suspect and unearths events from the past that locals are most eager to keep buried. Thayer concludes, “This is an impressive debut novel from a writer with a great deal to add to the crime-fiction canon.”

Read the whole review here.