The Crime Writers’ Association

Debut Dagger 2018

Highly Commended


Joseph James

Riverine Blood

Oregon sheriff’s deputy Delia Chavez is at war with a force of nature, a war born of childhood tragedy and fueled by guilt. Newly promoted to detective, she must search for a deranged killer of waterfowl hunters on a river that floods the Willamette Valley and saturates her nightmares.

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