Telegraph Road by Baron Birtcher

TELEGRAPH ROAD

by Baron Birtcher

January 4-29, 2027 Virtual Book Tour

Synopsis:

A TY DAWSON MYSTERY

Longmire meets Yellowstone in bicentennial Oregon. The grit of a western and the shadows of noir.

There is blood beside the tracks and woodsmoke in the trees, and a good man riding toward a truth that will leave its mark on a sprawling rural county. Telegraph Road turns a brutal murder into a reckoning with greed and power; a haunting western mystery, rich in hard country, human frailty, and the stubborn grace that survives our worst intentions; a muscular, elegiac mystery, alive to the beauty of the West and the human cost of its corruption.

Oregon, 1976. While Meriwether County prepares for its bicentennial parade and rodeo, a young woman is found murdered beside a stretch of railroad tracks near Shiloh Lake. She carries no identification, but a nametag found outside a rundown lakeside bar offers a fragile lead, though the people who saw her last have little to say. Sheriff Ty Dawson intends to change that.

A rancher and Korean War veteran, Ty Dawson has built his life around obligations he takes personally. The dead woman is scarcely older than his own daughter. He cannot give the victim back the years she has lost, but he can give her a name—and find the people responsible for taking her life. As Ty and his deputies sift through evasions and conflicting accounts, pressure mounts from a railroad anxious to resume business, and local officials intent on a civic celebration.

But someone knows what happened on Telegraph Road. And Ty Dawson has no intention of letting them forget it.

In this fifth Dawson mystery, the hardest question reaches beyond who committed the crime, and asks what happens to a community when a human life becomes someone else’s problem—and the cost incurred when one man chooses to make it his own. Rooted in the beauty and unease of the American West, Telegraph Road is a mystery about the obligations of decency, and how much of himself a man can spend defending them.

Praise for Baron Birtcher:

“YOU WANT TO READ BIRTCHER’S BOOKS, THEN YOU WANT TO LIVE IN THEM”
~ Don Winslow, NYT Bestselling author

“BIRTCHER IS PART POET, PART PHILOSOPHER, AND A CONSUMMATE WRITER”
~ Reed Farrel Coleman, NYT Bestselling author

“REMINISCENT OF THE LATE, GREAT ELMORE LEONARD”
~ Shots Magazine (UK)

Book Details:

Genre: Mystery, Historical Fiction
Published by: Open Road Media
Publication Date: December 29, 2026
Number of Pages: 408, pbk
ISBN: 979-8337209593, pbk
Series: Ty Dawson Mysteries, Book 5
Book Links: Amazon | Kindle | Barnes & Noble | BookShop.org | BookBub | Open Road Media

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Author Bio:

Baron Birtcher is the recipient of the prestigious Will Rogers Medallion for western mystery, and has won or been short-listed for a number of literary awards including the Shamus, the Silver Falchion, the Lefty Award, the Nero, the Foreword Indie, the Reader’s Choice, and the Pacific Northwest’s Spotted Owl Award.

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