The past is never past on the mean streets of Phoenix. Half a century after the unsolved mystery of an FBI agent, the missing badge is found on the body of a dead transient. The case seems a perfect
In this "prequel" to the popular David Mapstone mysteries, author Jon Talton takes us back to 1999, when everything dot-com was making money, the Y2K bug was the greatest danger facing the world, and
After history professor David Mapstone chases a robber into an abandoned warehouse, he discovers a gruesome crime that is six decades old. Mapstone's investigation widens to a Depression-era kidnappi
He’s a man whose life is so intertwined with his job that we know him only as “the columnist.” He writes for a newspaper in Seattle, isn’t afraid to stir up trouble and keeps
He’s a man whose life is so intertwined with his job that we know him only as “the columnist.” He writes for a newspaper in Seattle, isn’t afraid to stir up trouble and keeps
Jon Talton staked out the Southwest in his award-winning David Mapstone mysteries. The Washington Post called Concrete Desert “more intelligent and rewarding than most contemporary mysteries.&#
The mean streets of the New West have never been more sinister, as historian-turned-deputy David Mapstone discovers when his friend, the sheriff, is nearly killed by a sniper.
Cincinnati homicide Detective Will Borders now walks with a cane and lives alone with constant discomfort. He’s lucky to be alive. He’s lucky to have a job, as public information officer for the de
Cincinnati homicide Detective Will Borders now walks with a cane and lives alone with constant discomfort. He’s lucky to be alive. He’s lucky to have a job, as public information officer for the de
David Mapstone and his wife, Deputy Lindsey Faith Mapstone, are embroiled in two separate cases--in the first, a letter from a man confessing to a forty-year-old murder with directions to the body, an
David Mapstone, history professor turned deputy, is excited when a former student brings him a 40-year-old letter confessing to a murder and even providing directions to the body. But this body isnt
Cheryl Beth Wilson is an elite nurse at Cincinnati Memorial Hospital who finds a doctor brutally murdered in a secluded office. Wilson had been having an affair with the doctoras husband, a surgeon,
The past never rests easy in Arizona.Forty years ago, a Phoenix reporter was killed by a car bomb in one of America's most notorious crimes. Three men went to prison - but was there more to the story
The past never rests easy in Arizona.Forty years ago, a Phoenix reporter was killed by a car bomb in one of America's most notorious crimes. Three men went to prison - but was there more to the story
Though the new metropolis is one of America's largest, many are unaware of Phoenix's rich and compelling history. Built on land once occupied by the most advanced pre-Columbian irrigation society, Pho
