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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xiv, 252 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In Echo Park, in the small town of Santa Rita, California, the mutilated body of Martin Torrey is found by two passersby. A registered sex offender, Torrey has been a suspect in a string of recent rapes, and instant suspicion for his murder falls on the relatives and friends of the women attacked. Police chief Griffin Kells and detective Robert Ortiz are under increasing pressure from the public and from a mayor demanding results in a case that has...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
176 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The latest Carpenter & Quincannon mystery: "Attractive characters, a finely tuned plot, and fascinating snippets of California history. Who could ask for more?"-PublishersWeekly on The Stolen Gold Affair Quincannon's pursuit of two con men who have absconded to Hawaii with a considerable sum of his employer's assets dovetails nicely with Sabina's vision of a second honeymoon. But neither is wont to stay out of trouble, and Sabina inadvertently becomes...
Author
Series
A Carpenter and Quincannon mystery volume 7
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Carpenter and Quincannon Professional Detective Services is a fixture in San Francisco at the dawn of a new century. Sabina and John will protect their clients, doing what is necessary to run the dregs of society into the arms of the law. Sometimes that involves brute force. Other times, a more subtle touch is needed. Professor A. Vargas, medium extraordinaire, and his partner, Annabelle, don't use picks to open locked doors, and most certainly don't...
Author
Series
A Carpenter and Quincannon mystery volume 6
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
With two con games being run by two deadly villains, Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon are forced to split up, but when Sabina's life is in danger, John realizes just how much she means to him.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Bill Pronzini's riveting western mystery, The Peaceful Valley Crime Wave, takes on the modern world with old-fashioned violence-and his Peaceful Valley is anything but …
Nothing much happens in Peaceful Valley, Montana. And that's just how Sheriff Lucas Monk likes it.
Aside from the occasional drunken brawl or minor disturbance out on the reservation, he hasn't had to resort to his fists or sidearm in years.
That is, until mid-October, 1914,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Give-a-Damn Jones, an itinerant typographer, arrives in the small Montana town of Box Elder. The town is rife with tensions related to a convict's efforts to prove his innocence, a cattleman's demand for respect, a snooping editor, and a feud between a dentist and a blacksmith. Jones keeps finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time-- but this time, he may be the hero that this town needs.