Strong Darkness: A Caitlin Strong Novel

Don't mess with the Texas Rangers, specifically Caitlin Strong. Land's sixth series novel (after Strong Rain Falling) opens in 1883 Texas with a serial killer on the loose. Four Chinese women—brutally murdered, raped postmortem, and disfigured—are found separately along a railroad line under construction. The story line alternates between this investigation by Texas Ranger William Ray, Caitlin's great-grandfather, and Caitlin's present-day search for the murderer of Chinese women in the same manner and along the same rail line. Her investigation leads her to a Chinese CEO in Texas named Li Zhen who is on the verge of releasing a technology breakthrough, a 5G wireless network. While Li Zhen might have Homeland Security fooled, he isn't fooling Caitlin. But if Caitlin doesn't discover Li Zhen's true plan in time, many more people in the United States will lose their lives.