My friend, Baron R. Birtcher, is one of the finest authors you’ll ever meet and read. His Sheriff Ty Dawson mysteries are absolute jewels, lyric and literary but chock full of gritty violence and mayhem. His latest, RECKONING, will be released June 20 but is already available on Amazon for pre-order at: https://www.amazon.com/Reckoning-Dawson-Mysteries-Baron-Birtcher-ebook/dp/B0BSX8W2MQ

Here’s my review:

“There’s a marvelous dichotomy to author Baron R. Birtcher’s mysteries, particularly those that feature Meriwether County Sheriff Ty Dawson, war veteran, rancher, reluctant lawman and keeper of the old school flame in the face of the chaos, culture clash and decline of America in the mid-1970s.

On the one hand, the writing is high-born, lyric and literary but clear as the mountain streams of rural Oregon, where Dawson hangs his hat and gun. Some of the finest passages in Birtcher’s latest, Reckoning, are achingly beautiful and set a very strong sense of time and…