The first hint of the boys is in a tiny Montana town far from the Missouri River.Ĭassie returns to Montana to investigate the boys' disappearance, realizing there may be a connection to the Lizard King when she discovers a small cluster of disappearances in Bakken the day of the tragic attempt to end the Lizard King's long reign of horror.Īn old fashioned posse is formed with the help of a long retired, old outfitter Bull Mitchell, Sheriff Bryan Pederson of the Park County Sheriff’s Dept and three of his deputies. Cassie is hired by the grandmother of one of boys to find them. While Cassie is looking for a hint of the Lizard King, two young friends of her son have disappeared on a Huck Finn type adventure down the Missouri River.
Cassie disagrees and so does her friend, Leslie Behaunek the prosecutor in North Carolina who had the Lizard King but lost him. Though in his case he has to make his own family and maybe he needs to be a bit of a disciplinarian.ĭarn it, a man has a right to a quiet retirement. But now like so many middle aged men, he just wants to retire and spend time with his family.
#Cassie undercover driver#
The Lizard King is an independent long distance truck driver who kidnaps women from truck stops, plays with them and then discards them usually where their bodies are never found. But now heartbroken and nearly broken, Cassie is on her own with her belief that the Lizard King still lives to torture and murder. She has moved from Montana to the oil fields of Bakken during the oil boom and has stayed in Bakken with her son, Ben and her mother Isabel during the oil bust. Or she is until her plan to trap the Lizard King goes horribly wrong and she is made a scapegoat who then has to resigns.
#Cassie undercover series#
This is the third book in the saga of the murderous Lizard King, but Box catches up the new reader to the series quite well.Ĭassie is an investigator with the Bakken County Sheriff's Dept, in North Dakota. It's so easy to see why as his prose is sharp and evocative and his stories never slow.īox is a resident of Wyoming and most of his books are set there but at times he wanders into Montana and North Dakota as he does in this fourth Cassie Dewell book. Box referred to as a writer's writer, as he is award winning, critically acclaimed, and admired by other authors. He served on the Board of Directors for the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo. An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West. The novels have been translated into 27 languages.īox is a Wyoming native and has worked as a ranch hand, surveyor, fishing guide, a small town newspaper reporter and editor, and he co-owns an international tourism marketing firm with his wife Laurie. He was recently awarded the 2016 Western Heritage Award for Literature by the National Cowboy Museum as well as the Spur Award for Best Contemporary Novel by the Western Writers of America in 2017. He won the Edgar Alan Poe Award for Best Novel (Blue Heaven, 2009) as well as the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, two Barry Awards, and the 2010 Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Award for fiction. Box is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 24 novels including the Joe Pickett series. But can she do it alone, without losing her own humanity or her own life?Ĭ. With no allies, no support, and only her own wits to rely on, Cassie must take down a killer who is as ruthless as he is cunning. And in the same way that two streams converge into a river, Kyle's disappearance may have a more sinister meaning than anyone realizes. Kyle's grandmother begs Cassie to find him and, with nothing else to do, Cassie agrees-all the while hunting the truck driver.
Disgraced, she loses her job and investigation into her role is put into motion.Īt the same time, Kyle Westergaard, a troubled kid whom Cassie has taken under her wing, has disappeared after telling people that he's going off on a long-planned adventure. But the plan goes horribly wrong, and the blame falls on Cassie. Working for the Bakken County, North Dakota sheriff's department, Cassie has set what she believes is the perfect trap and she has lured him and his truck to a depot.
#Cassie undercover serial#
Now, he's back.įor three years, Investigator Cassie Dewell has been on a hunt for a serial killer known as the Lizard King whose hunting grounds are the highways and truck stops where runaways and prostitutes are most likely to vanish.
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