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Dalton Savage #7
Savage Season
The scariest mask is the face you thought you knew.
In the mountains of southern Colorado, autumn is a season of change—burning leaves, crisp air… and murder.
On Halloween night, a retired couple is executed in their home with chilling precision. Two silenced shots. No sign of forced entry. No struggle. No apparent motive. Sheriff Dalton Savage has seen violence, but this feels different. Clinical, calculated, and intentional.
Then another body turns up on the nearby Southern Ute reservation. Different victim, same ruthless method. As Savage follows the trail, it leads through twisted roots of Hawk’s Landing’s past. An old school connection, a land deal gone sideways, and whispers of a target that was never meant to be.
Under pressure from a new hardline councilor with Ivy League credentials and zero tolerance for small-town politics, Savage finds himself, and his department, under the microscope. And with the Guardian group stirring up trouble, even longtime allies start to look like suspects.
Someone made a deadly mistake.
Someone else is cleaning it up.
And Savage is running out of time to stop a killer hiding in plain sight.
In the mountains of southern Colorado, autumn is a season of change—burning leaves, crisp air… and murder.
On Halloween night, a retired couple is executed in their home with chilling precision. Two silenced shots. No sign of forced entry. No struggle. No apparent motive. Sheriff Dalton Savage has seen violence, but this feels different. Clinical, calculated, and intentional.
Then another body turns up on the nearby Southern Ute reservation. Different victim, same ruthless method. As Savage follows the trail, it leads through twisted roots of Hawk’s Landing’s past. An old school connection, a land deal gone sideways, and whispers of a target that was never meant to be.
Under pressure from a new hardline councilor with Ivy League credentials and zero tolerance for small-town politics, Savage finds himself, and his department, under the microscope. And with the Guardian group stirring up trouble, even longtime allies start to look like suspects.
Someone made a deadly mistake.
Someone else is cleaning it up.
And Savage is running out of time to stop a killer hiding in plain sight.
277 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 2, 2026
About the author
L.T. Ryan
178 books1,529 followersL.T. RYAN is a USA Today and Amazon bestselling author. The new age of publishing offered L.T. the opportunity to blend his passions for creating, marketing, and technology to reach audiences with his popular Jack Noble series.
Living in central Virginia with his wife, the youngest of his three daughters, and their three dogs, L.T. enjoys staring out his window at the trees and mountains while he should be writing, as well as reading, hiking, running, and playing with gadgets. See what he's up to at ltryan.com.
BOOKS IN THE JACK NOBLE SERIES
The Recruit (prequel short story)
The First Deception (prequel)
Noble Beginnings
A Deadly Distance
Thin Line
Noble Intentions
When Dead in Greece
Noble Retribution
Noble Betrayal
Never Go Home
Noble Judgment
Never Cry Mercy
Deadline
End Game
BOOKS IN THE BEAR LOGAN SERIES
Ripple Effect
Blowback
Takedown
Deep State (coming January, 2020)
BOOKS IN THE CLARISSA ABBOT SERIES
Beyond Betrayal
BOOKS IN THE MITCH TANNER SERIES
The Depths of Darkness
Into the Darkness
Deliver Us From Darkness (coming soon)
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Contact L.T. Ryan at contact@ltryan.com
About the Author
L.T. RYAN is a USA Today and Amazon bestselling author. The new age of publishing offered L.T. the opportunity to blend his passions for creating, marketing, and technology to reach audiences with his popular Jack Noble series.
Living in central Virginia with his wife, the youngest of his three daughters, and their three dogs, L.T. enjoys staring out his window at the trees and mountains while he should be writing, as well as reading, hiking, running, and playing with gadgets. See what he's up to at ltryan.com.
Social Media Links
Facebook (L.T. Ryan): facebook.com/LTRyanAuthor
Facebook (Jack Noble Page): facebook.com/JackNobleBooks/
Twitter: twitter.com/LTRyanWrites
Goodreads: goodreads.com/author/show/6151659.L_T...
Contact L.T. Ryan at contact@ltryan.com
Living in central Virginia with his wife, the youngest of his three daughters, and their three dogs, L.T. enjoys staring out his window at the trees and mountains while he should be writing, as well as reading, hiking, running, and playing with gadgets. See what he's up to at ltryan.com.
BOOKS IN THE JACK NOBLE SERIES
The Recruit (prequel short story)
The First Deception (prequel)
Noble Beginnings
A Deadly Distance
Thin Line
Noble Intentions
When Dead in Greece
Noble Retribution
Noble Betrayal
Never Go Home
Noble Judgment
Never Cry Mercy
Deadline
End Game
BOOKS IN THE BEAR LOGAN SERIES
Ripple Effect
Blowback
Takedown
Deep State (coming January, 2020)
BOOKS IN THE CLARISSA ABBOT SERIES
Beyond Betrayal
BOOKS IN THE MITCH TANNER SERIES
The Depths of Darkness
Into the Darkness
Deliver Us From Darkness (coming soon)
Social Media Links
Facebook (L.T. Ryan): facebook.com/LTRyanAuthor
Facebook (Jack Noble Page): facebook.com/JackNobleBooks/
Twitter: twitter.com/LTRyanWrites
Goodreads: goodreads.com/author/show/6151659.L_T...
Contact L.T. Ryan at contact@ltryan.com
About the Author
L.T. RYAN is a USA Today and Amazon bestselling author. The new age of publishing offered L.T. the opportunity to blend his passions for creating, marketing, and technology to reach audiences with his popular Jack Noble series.
Living in central Virginia with his wife, the youngest of his three daughters, and their three dogs, L.T. enjoys staring out his window at the trees and mountains while he should be writing, as well as reading, hiking, running, and playing with gadgets. See what he's up to at ltryan.com.
Social Media Links
Facebook (L.T. Ryan): facebook.com/LTRyanAuthor
Facebook (Jack Noble Page): facebook.com/JackNobleBooks/
Twitter: twitter.com/LTRyanWrites
Goodreads: goodreads.com/author/show/6151659.L_T...
Contact L.T. Ryan at contact@ltryan.com
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June 3, 2026
An elderly couple is shot dead execution style. Dalton Savage and his team are sure that former military personnel are behind it. Dalton probes further into a specific department of the military and also their role in arson twenty years prior because someone wanted the land. How is the couple involved? The plot is a well crafted police procedural describing the daily ordeals of detectives investigating crimes and the pressure to solve them in addition to threats to their lives. There is a surprising twist in the end.
June 2, 2026
I love the realism of this series.
I love the realism of this series. The authors have created a small community very vividly. After seven books it seems as if these characters could be people you know. The stories are both methodical as to procedure, with the added thrill of the chase. Gripping plots that offer lots of surprises.
I love the realism of this series. The authors have created a small community very vividly. After seven books it seems as if these characters could be people you know. The stories are both methodical as to procedure, with the added thrill of the chase. Gripping plots that offer lots of surprises.
June 1, 2026
Received this as an ARC from the author.
Double murder in chapter 1 hooked me right away. I absolutely love this author & all of her books. This is the first book I’ve read in this series (yeah- I’m late to the party 🤷♀️). But now I want to read all of the previous ones!
Double murder in chapter 1 hooked me right away. I absolutely love this author & all of her books. This is the first book I’ve read in this series (yeah- I’m late to the party 🤷♀️). But now I want to read all of the previous ones!
Review of advance copy
I received an advance copy of this book from the author's publisher a week or so back, can't remember the date as I was away at the time on home caring duties.
This is set in a town called Hawk's Landing and it's Hallowe'en and the townsfolk are celebrating fireworks and bonfires and it's incredibly noisy and will be all night, the people of this town certainly know how to party! The local police are called out because someone heard what they thought was gunfire, Sheriff Savage wasn't that impressed as fireworks were going off and would be all night. However he sent his deputy Becky to check it out, then he gets a call. To come quickly to an address in Maple Ridge Lane, and he does. What greets him there is a shocker.
A double killing of an elderly couple. Some children trick-a-treating went through their open front to get their treats and found them in pools of blood on the floor. Frank and Sarah Wilson were well known kindly people who had lived in that house for 30yrs and got on well with all their neighbours. So, what was so important about them that had them lying on their living room floor with bullet wounds to their heads? The tv was still playing, Savage looked for the gun casings but there were none, and nothing had been disturbed, just a couple of kind elderly people lying dead in pools of blood on the floor? So who came through all the noise to kill this eldery couple twice through their heads?
The plot moves along at quite a fast pace and Savage couldn't find anyone who disliked them and couldn't find anything in the house which would entail their murders, and it wasn't a burglary.
From here on it gets much deeper. Savage hadn't been able to find any reason why they were killed and the pathologist said it was definitely a professional killing, something called a double tap, whereby they had been shot once underneath their chins and another bullet through their temples leaving no bullet casings behind. The only thing going on in the town at the moment was an uproar about a data processing plant proposed for building on a piece of large farming land and the residents were very unhappy over this as it was given to the town on the death of the landowner, not to be built on but for people to use as a sort of parkland. But none of the residents were happy about this loss of their parkland.
I really enjoyed this book, even though it was about a nice couple butchered by bullets, it's the people who made the place as kind as it was and the Sheriff and his officers who kept things ticking over nicely, until now. And the ending was really good. Well worth the read Biba and LT Ryan! I think I've read all of Biba Pearce books now and have loved each one and got hooked to see what the next book brought, but very few of LT's, so better get busy then!!
This is set in a town called Hawk's Landing and it's Hallowe'en and the townsfolk are celebrating fireworks and bonfires and it's incredibly noisy and will be all night, the people of this town certainly know how to party! The local police are called out because someone heard what they thought was gunfire, Sheriff Savage wasn't that impressed as fireworks were going off and would be all night. However he sent his deputy Becky to check it out, then he gets a call. To come quickly to an address in Maple Ridge Lane, and he does. What greets him there is a shocker.
A double killing of an elderly couple. Some children trick-a-treating went through their open front to get their treats and found them in pools of blood on the floor. Frank and Sarah Wilson were well known kindly people who had lived in that house for 30yrs and got on well with all their neighbours. So, what was so important about them that had them lying on their living room floor with bullet wounds to their heads? The tv was still playing, Savage looked for the gun casings but there were none, and nothing had been disturbed, just a couple of kind elderly people lying dead in pools of blood on the floor? So who came through all the noise to kill this eldery couple twice through their heads?
The plot moves along at quite a fast pace and Savage couldn't find anyone who disliked them and couldn't find anything in the house which would entail their murders, and it wasn't a burglary.
From here on it gets much deeper. Savage hadn't been able to find any reason why they were killed and the pathologist said it was definitely a professional killing, something called a double tap, whereby they had been shot once underneath their chins and another bullet through their temples leaving no bullet casings behind. The only thing going on in the town at the moment was an uproar about a data processing plant proposed for building on a piece of large farming land and the residents were very unhappy over this as it was given to the town on the death of the landowner, not to be built on but for people to use as a sort of parkland. But none of the residents were happy about this loss of their parkland.
I really enjoyed this book, even though it was about a nice couple butchered by bullets, it's the people who made the place as kind as it was and the Sheriff and his officers who kept things ticking over nicely, until now. And the ending was really good. Well worth the read Biba and LT Ryan! I think I've read all of Biba Pearce books now and have loved each one and got hooked to see what the next book brought, but very few of LT's, so better get busy then!!
Review of advance copy received from Author
This is one of my favourite writing teams and I love the Dalton Savage stories.
Sheriff Dalton Savage is a down to earth lawman, he gets tired, he gets grumpy, his personal life is up in the air, but he has earned the respect of his team, Barb, the all knowing, always with a much needed coffee, department administrator, his brilliant deputies and the community that they serve.
It's Halloween, the children are screaming and shouting with joy, the fireworks are exploding and lighting up the skies, no one would have notices four gunshots amidst the celebrations.
Dalton and ex marine, deputy Lucas Mc Bride, were called to a home where two bodies had been found, a well respected, well liked husband and wife, both retired teachers, had been executed military style, double tap with no casings, these murders were done using military grade equipment.
Dalton needed to interview a man who he thought could help with their enquiries, who could possibly be the killer, they traced him to a hotel on a UTE Reservation.........they were too late, their suspect had been executed with the same MO, why had he been silenced? were there two killers ?
This was a tangled web, the killings appeared to be tied up with a large area of land, land that was wanted for a Data Centre, land that the people of Hawks Landing protected fiercely, a land where twenty years ago the owner, his wife and two children were killed when fire spread through the farmhouse.
This was a complex case that was giving Dalton headaches, there was a military connection, there was a corporate connection, there was corruption, were the Guardians involved ? who stood to gain from the sale of the land ?
Dalton was trying to solve these murders as the body count escalated, at the same time he was trying to come to terms with what was happening with Becca and his son Connor.
A great story with likeable, unpretentious, characters, all with lives outside the Sheriff's office, and an intriguing ending, I am so looking forward to the next book in the series.
I received a free copy of this book and my review is voluntary.
Sheriff Dalton Savage is a down to earth lawman, he gets tired, he gets grumpy, his personal life is up in the air, but he has earned the respect of his team, Barb, the all knowing, always with a much needed coffee, department administrator, his brilliant deputies and the community that they serve.
It's Halloween, the children are screaming and shouting with joy, the fireworks are exploding and lighting up the skies, no one would have notices four gunshots amidst the celebrations.
Dalton and ex marine, deputy Lucas Mc Bride, were called to a home where two bodies had been found, a well respected, well liked husband and wife, both retired teachers, had been executed military style, double tap with no casings, these murders were done using military grade equipment.
Dalton needed to interview a man who he thought could help with their enquiries, who could possibly be the killer, they traced him to a hotel on a UTE Reservation.........they were too late, their suspect had been executed with the same MO, why had he been silenced? were there two killers ?
This was a tangled web, the killings appeared to be tied up with a large area of land, land that was wanted for a Data Centre, land that the people of Hawks Landing protected fiercely, a land where twenty years ago the owner, his wife and two children were killed when fire spread through the farmhouse.
This was a complex case that was giving Dalton headaches, there was a military connection, there was a corporate connection, there was corruption, were the Guardians involved ? who stood to gain from the sale of the land ?
Dalton was trying to solve these murders as the body count escalated, at the same time he was trying to come to terms with what was happening with Becca and his son Connor.
A great story with likeable, unpretentious, characters, all with lives outside the Sheriff's office, and an intriguing ending, I am so looking forward to the next book in the series.
I received a free copy of this book and my review is voluntary.
Review of advance copy received from Author
It’s Halloween. Sheriff Dalton Savage and his team are busy with endless calls. As he knows, these are mostly kids screwing around and making trouble throughout the entire town...until he receives a real one. A neighbor has called to report that two people are dead. It’s a professional execution which is crazy in a small town in the middle of Colorado. At the same time, a Data Center developer is in town trying to buy up the land needed and working to get approval from the City. The population is not happy about it. Is it connected? As Savage and his team track down the clues and suspects, one by one, a suspected murderer is found dead in his hotel room. Again a professional execution. With the help of the Indian reservation police and retired CIA professionals, Savage and his team find themselves going in all directions. What is happening? As the mystery expands, old memories and situations start to coalesce. Super fast paced and exciting.
Review of advance copy received from Author
I am partial to police procedurals. I’m very pleased to have read the seventh book in the Dalton Savage series; “Savage Season” is my favorite in this series so far. The way Sheriff Savage and his team grapple with the evidence seems to build from chapter to chapter until they finally arrive at the correct solution and make an arrest. The book allows the reader to observe the dedication of the department and to sample the many demands on their time and the dangers they face. The reader is able to listen in on their conversations about the crime and about what to investigate next. The book kept my attention throughout. I recommend it.
Thanks, Biba Pearce, for sending me the latest Dalton Savage book as an ARC.
Although I received this book as an ARC, it did not influence my opinions or my review.
Thanks, Biba Pearce, for sending me the latest Dalton Savage book as an ARC.
Although I received this book as an ARC, it did not influence my opinions or my review.
Review of advance copy received from Author
Sheriff Dalton Savage runs a tight ship, but when he’s called to investigate the brutal double homicide of an elderly couple, he quickly discovers that nothing is as it seems. What begins as a routine investigation unravels into a deadly conspiracy rooted in secrets buried more than twenty years ago. As disturbing clues emerge, Dalton is drawn toward a chilling connection to the military—and into a dangerous web of murder, deception, and betrayal. Packed with nonstop action, suspense, and intrigue, this gripping thriller will keep readers turning pages until the very end.
June 4, 2026
LT Ryan and B. Pierce delivered
This is a story that began years ago both in the real world and in these pages. These pages move along quickly because the story just sucks you in. I really lime the characters in the story that feels like home. Always a new and exciting drama that pops up in the small town but the tension and drama are not unexpected.
This is a story that began years ago both in the real world and in these pages. These pages move along quickly because the story just sucks you in. I really lime the characters in the story that feels like home. Always a new and exciting drama that pops up in the small town but the tension and drama are not unexpected.
Review of advance copy received from Author
A ripper read that will keep you guessing, lots of cul-de-sacs. The investigation team makes lots of assumptions, some good, some less so. However, the truth will outweigh the deceptions. Well recommended for any murder mystery fans.
Review of advance copy received from Author
Wow, what a cracking crime thriller this is. Full of twists and turns, dead ends and all sorts of shenanigans going on. I do so love this series and this one is up there with the best of them. What are we getting next I wonder. Cannot wait to find out. Highly recommended.
Review of advance copy received from Author
Savage and team are involved in solving a double murder and it’s taxing the entire team. The new data center is somehow involved and it’s up to the team to
figure it out. Great read!
figure it out. Great read!
June 3, 2026
SAVAGE SEASON - I didn't enjoy this book very much. The writing style seemed choppy and there were a lot of references to past books in this series that didn't help. This is my first read. Source: The Author. 3*
June 4, 2026
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, couldn't put it down. Action from start to finish with a great cast of characters.
Review of advance copy received from Author
Savage Season by Biba Pearce is book 7 in the Dalton Savage series. Set in the US in Hawk’s Landing, Colorado, this is a great series. It is Halloween and there is a double murder, and it looks like a professional hit. There is also trouble in town as an application has been made to build a data centre and this is causing angst amongst the townspeople. It is keeping Sheriff Dalton and his team on the go, particularly with the red herrings they uncover. This is an easy but enticing read and it kept me turning the page. I enjoy the inclusion of Dalton’s personal, complicated family life in the story too. The setting is rural, so the weather plays a part as does the fact that there is an Indian reservation nearby which affects how some crimes are handled. It all adds to the interest.
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