A Novel By Pamela Lowe Saldana

El Glasgow has the habit of  speaking her mind and wearing too much blue eye shadow. She’s also a crime  reporter nearing retirement, working on her last big story. An undocumented  immigrant’s throat has been cut and his tongue pulled down and out through the  wound. It’s called a “necktie” and it’s the signature method of murder for the  notorious Ciudad Cartel. 

El and her pervy sidekick, Tyler, knows what this means: the Ciudad Cartel and Chippewa City’s Five Families  are going to war over drug turf and the sheriff wants to shut the story down for  all the usual reasons—or so El thinks. Her investigation turns up some of what  she expects and a lot of what she doesn’t, including her conscience, integrity  and an awakened passion for the story…but at what  cost? 

 A Blooding in the Oil Patch is an eloquent and eclectic psychological thriller, with an eyebrow-raising yet likeable protagonist, a colorful supporting cast and authentic dialogue set in the barren West Texas oil fields.