No Place for the Weak at Heart

Reader's Favorite Five-Star Award Recipient
Stalked. Shot. Left for dead in the desert. Former Dallas police detective Mendocino Jones survives with one goal: find the men who did this to him after he witnessed them kill a man and woman in Big Bend National Park. Mendocino finds himself embroiled in the most intriguing mystery of his career as each clue leads him to the Bar W Ranch and the most powerful family in Texas' Trans Pecos.
Reader's Favorite Reviewers call it "an intricately written suspense romance set against the harshly beautiful landscape of the Chihuahuan Desert in Texas. An intricate plot plays out that includes drug cartels and political injustice."
No Place for the Weak at Heart will have lovers of mystery murder novels captivated from cover to cover.
P.J. Jones planned and executed an intriguing and exciting plot in No Place for the Weak at Heart. I was immediately captivated by the story and couldn't turn the pages fast enough. Alma Boucher for Reader's Favorite

P.J. Jones received the Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Award for True Crime in 2022 as co-author of The Evil I Have Seen: Memoirs of Detective Lt. Robert (Robbo) Davidson. The true-crime non-fiction received accolades from readers and critics alike, chronicling Detective Davidson's four-decade career in Louisiana law enforcement.
Mendocino Jones in No Place for the Weak at Heart is Jones' debut fiction, a romantic mystery suspense novel set in the rugged country of far West Texas.
Jones brings decades of experience working as a crime reporter to her stories. "None of my characters are based on any one person. They're all composites of West Texans loved, lost, or loathed, who are a breed unto themselves.
"Life is different west of the Callahan Divide, where the wind never rests and the sun seldom retreats; where rain is a blessing never to be taken for granted, except when it comes as a nightmare swelling long-dry riverbeds into demons that devour everything and everyone along their paths. You have to live West Texas to love it. Harsh country. Rough people with sunburned faces, calloused hands, and indomitable spirits."