Sheriff in the Saddle (The Law in Lubbock County, 1)

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Sheriff in the Saddle was a fun, fast-paced Intrigue that starts out with a bang, or maybe I should say a thud. There's a dead body, and sheriff Leigh is thrown into her past lover's lair to figure out the whodunit. Leigh is trying to separate herself from the legacy of her father, the prior sheriff, and she's finding it difficult to get everyone, including her deputies, to see her as the sheriff. When she's faced with her former lover, the ex-boyfriend of the victim, she refuses to arrest him. He wasn't guilty, but someone was, and she was going to need his help to figure out who. Cullen was calm, cool, and collected, even knowing his ex was dead in his bathroom, until Leigh walked through the halls of his home again. She was the one who got away, but their family feud had kept them apart, and nothing had changed there. What had changed was Leigh. She was no longer a girl from his high school. She was all woman, and a woman he wouldn't mind making part of his future. First, he had to clear his name. Things get ugly when they discover another injury on Cullen's ranch, followed by an attempt on their lives on the road. Deception and affairs lead Leigh and Cullen to suspects they'd never expect, and they'll need help to solve this mystery. One thing the author did extremely well in this intrigue was spread the suspicion out evenly over all the suspects, and that's very difficult to do. No one stood out as the guilty party until the very end because it could have been any of them. It's not fiction if you don't have to suspend some reality, though. 'A windshield so darkly tinted you couldn't see the driver' is certainly going to require some suspension of reality, but in the end, the book was well-written and perfectly paced for a small-town sheriff romance. I am certainly looking forward to the next one!