Sunday, April 6, 2025

Chinese Farmland Ownership & In the Crosshairs: the Body on Leffis Key

Chinese operatives, radical environmentalists, even the handsome, secretive Senator’s aide—may be willing to kill for a mysterious briefcase in In the Crosshairs: The Body on Leffis Key.

When I started writing In the Crosshairs: the Body on Leffis Key I had just come across an obscure news item about Chinese buying up US farmland. It intrigued—and concerned—me. I decided to insert it as a plot element in a novel—and what to my wonderment should happen but it’s now a full-blown global issue! The current administration and many states are seriously looking at the burgeoning ownership by Chinese nationals of American farmland. What’s their goal? To spy on military facilities? Or—more ominous—to control our food supply? Almost 280,000 acres of farmland in 29 states is now under Chinese ownership. In the Crosshairs is a work of fiction, but if you’re interested in issues of foreign ownership, farming, and food supply, you will enjoy this book.

Blurb:

A US senator commits suicide in Washington DC and his aide disappears. Weeks later the body of a lobbyist washes up in Florida at the feet of Palmer Lind, who expected to see birds, not corpses. Are the two deaths related? Palmer—recently widowed—soon finds herself entwined with a cast of characters all searching for a mysterious briefcase. Global investors, Chinese operatives, radical environmentalists, even the handsome, secretive aide—may be willing to kill for it. Who is the murderer, or is there more than one?


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