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Baker & Tate Series #5
Murder Ranch
Death has a membership fee...
In the latest high-stakes Baker & Tate thriller, a rich rancher’s obsession with a serial killer leads Ruth into a deadly game of cat and mouse.In the latest high-stakes instalment of the Baker & Tate series, Texas Rangers Ruth Baker and Aaron Tate uncover a deadly conspiracy tied to a rich rancher’s obsession with a serial killer. When Wade Hargrove, a prominent Texas rancher, is found strangled in his sprawling estate, Ruth and Aaron discover his connection to the secretive Murder Club—a group of wealthy landowners fixated on tracking the notorious Bandanna Strangler, a killer who preyed on single mothers across rural Texas, leaving them dead with navy bandannas around their throats.
As Ruth and Aaron dig deeper, they uncover a chilling the Murder Club wasn’t just studying the killer—they were surveilling him, using Hargrove’s cutting-edge technology to watch his every move. But someone else was watching them, and now the club’s members are being hunted. With each new murder, the Rangers unravel a decades-old secret linking the Bandanna Strangler to one of the club’s own, a predator whose twisted motives threaten to destroy everyone in their path.
Racing against time, Ruth and Aaron must expose the killer before the conspiracy claims more lives—or their own.
MURDER RANCH is an unrelenting, high-stakes mystery thriller packed with explosive action, psychological warfare, and the trademark emotional punch Baker & Tate fans have come to love.Each book in the Baker & Tate series is a complete story that can be read on its own.
In the latest high-stakes Baker & Tate thriller, a rich rancher’s obsession with a serial killer leads Ruth into a deadly game of cat and mouse.In the latest high-stakes instalment of the Baker & Tate series, Texas Rangers Ruth Baker and Aaron Tate uncover a deadly conspiracy tied to a rich rancher’s obsession with a serial killer. When Wade Hargrove, a prominent Texas rancher, is found strangled in his sprawling estate, Ruth and Aaron discover his connection to the secretive Murder Club—a group of wealthy landowners fixated on tracking the notorious Bandanna Strangler, a killer who preyed on single mothers across rural Texas, leaving them dead with navy bandannas around their throats.
As Ruth and Aaron dig deeper, they uncover a chilling the Murder Club wasn’t just studying the killer—they were surveilling him, using Hargrove’s cutting-edge technology to watch his every move. But someone else was watching them, and now the club’s members are being hunted. With each new murder, the Rangers unravel a decades-old secret linking the Bandanna Strangler to one of the club’s own, a predator whose twisted motives threaten to destroy everyone in their path.
Racing against time, Ruth and Aaron must expose the killer before the conspiracy claims more lives—or their own.
MURDER RANCH is an unrelenting, high-stakes mystery thriller packed with explosive action, psychological warfare, and the trademark emotional punch Baker & Tate fans have come to love.Each book in the Baker & Tate series is a complete story that can be read on its own.
318 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 9, 2025
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August 25, 2025
Another winner by Baron!
Murder Ranch, book 5 in the Baker & Tate crime thriller series, is another winner of a thriller. Rich Texans being systematically executed, crimes going back decades, A killer doing the seemingly impossible, definitely a case for Baker and Tate! The motives for the murders are more complex and emotional than in the previous installments, the writing every bit as good as I've come to expect from Baron. If you enjoy thrillers, especially crime thrillers, you need to be reading the Baker & Tate series! 5/5 stars!
Murder Ranch, book 5 in the Baker & Tate crime thriller series, is another winner of a thriller. Rich Texans being systematically executed, crimes going back decades, A killer doing the seemingly impossible, definitely a case for Baker and Tate! The motives for the murders are more complex and emotional than in the previous installments, the writing every bit as good as I've come to expect from Baron. If you enjoy thrillers, especially crime thrillers, you need to be reading the Baker & Tate series! 5/5 stars!
November 15, 2025
Lots of action!
This book does keep you interested and to keep reading to find out what comes next. I'm really liking the combined families. Nice to see Aaron's boys still being big brothers to Ava.
The only thing negative I have to say about it is that the editors didn't do a very good job in proof reading the story. In two separate instances, an entire paragraph is duplicated! Also, in the first book, it said that even though you couldn't hear Ava laugh because of being mute, you could still see her head and shoulders move when she laughed. In one story, Ruth is supposed to be happy because she is hearing Ava's laugh as her and the 2 boys play in the back yard. These are good stories. I just wish the editors could slow down and do their job in finding any of these errors.
This book does keep you interested and to keep reading to find out what comes next. I'm really liking the combined families. Nice to see Aaron's boys still being big brothers to Ava.
The only thing negative I have to say about it is that the editors didn't do a very good job in proof reading the story. In two separate instances, an entire paragraph is duplicated! Also, in the first book, it said that even though you couldn't hear Ava laugh because of being mute, you could still see her head and shoulders move when she laughed. In one story, Ruth is supposed to be happy because she is hearing Ava's laugh as her and the 2 boys play in the back yard. These are good stories. I just wish the editors could slow down and do their job in finding any of these errors.
October 23, 2025
Murder Ranch is a story of two Texas Rangers assigned a case of a wealthy man murdered. The story follows their investigation as it reveals a trail of other murders committed by the same killer. The story wanders at times and slows to a stop. The final episode of the story is much too long and filled with mistakes. The book had possibilities but misses the mark.
October 22, 2025
Great Story
I thoroughly enjoyed this story. However, the book needs some editing. There were a lot of duplications. Sometimes it was just a line, sometimes a whole paragraph. Chapter 29 was an entire duplication of chapter 28. That was a little distracting.
I thoroughly enjoyed this story. However, the book needs some editing. There were a lot of duplications. Sometimes it was just a line, sometimes a whole paragraph. Chapter 29 was an entire duplication of chapter 28. That was a little distracting.
July 17, 2025
A very smart and well-written novel.
Agents Baker and Tate have their have their hands full trying to solve the mystery, arrest the bad guys and make sure there own family is safe.
Agents Baker and Tate have their have their hands full trying to solve the mystery, arrest the bad guys and make sure there own family is safe.
October 27, 2025
Good read
Gets a little long with too much information and way too soupy but still worth the read. Just keep reading
Gets a little long with too much information and way too soupy but still worth the read. Just keep reading
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