Was that ever fast!
My new novel, Deadly Inheritance, is already on sale at Amazon, as well as through the website of the publisher, Outskirts Press. If you find it elsewhere, please let me know.
It’s available in paperback, hard-cover and digital edition, as well as a budget-friendly pdf if you like to read on your hand-held or whatever.
I would describe the book as a modern Western mystery – fiction, of course – with a strong faith element and a romance. Somewhat complicated, I suppose, but then so is life. Here’s the synopsis on the book jacket:
Two years after surviving an IED attack that killed the rest of his squad in Afghanistan, Josh Davenport is wasting away in Fort Smith, Arkansas. He keeps a tight rein on his emotions and his dwindling finances. Though physical wounds have healed, his mental scars and the senseless traffic death of his parents left him reclusive and disillusioned, shunning old friends and refusing to make new ones. Angry at a God he doesn’t quite believe in, he seeks no miracles and expects nothing ahead but disappointment. He needs a change, but his prospects are dim. When a certified notice arrives that he has inherited property in Wyoming from a rancher he has never met, he breaks out of his comfort zone and undertakes the long drive to Lone Creek, an old mining town on its last legs. Within hours, his life is threatened, thieves try to steal his truck, and a colorful old lawyer warns that he might be in line to inherit a fortune – if he fulfills the conditions of the will and thwarts the schemes of a rich coal baron. A truck stop waitress and a cowboy priest offer aid and comfort, but also complications, as Josh faces growing threats and the question: What good is wealth if you’re dead? Deadly Inheritance is a mystery that blends themes of the Old West, new technology, romance, and a young man’s encounter with a legacy of faith that alters his outlook on life and death.
I think it’s a good read. I hope you will agree.
- David Jones
After the Gold Rush 