David Mapstone Mystery series by Jon Talton (#1-#4, #6-#7)
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Overview: Jon Talton is the author of the David Mapstone novels, which follow the adventures of a historian-turned-deputy, working the mean streets of the urban West.
Jon’s first novel, "Concrete Desert," was hailed by Kirkus as "an impressive debut." The Washington Post said it "is more intelligent and rewarding than most contemporary mysteries." The series has continued with "Camelback Falls," "Dry Heat," "Arizona Dreams" and "Cactus Heart." "Dry Heat" received Arizona Highways magazine’s best fiction award in 2005.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
1. Concrete Desert
Meet David Mapstone, a recently unemployed history professor who has just returned to Phoenix, Arizona a town now brimming over–much to Mapstone’s dismay–with rich retirees. To fill his time, Mapstone takes a temporary job with friend Maricopa County Chief Deputy Mike Peralta: Mapstone needs to look into old open cases and try to close them. But when an old flame comes to Mapstone about her missing sister, he is soon dragged deep into a forty-year-old case.
2. Camelback Falls
When his friend Peralta, newly sworn in as sheriff, is shot by a sniper, historian-turned-deputy-sheriff David Mapstone can’t keep a cool, academic distance. And he’d better not: while Peralta lies comatose in the hospital, the powers-that-be appoint Mapstone acting Sheriff in his place. Peralta feels unqualified, but he’s the only person whose temporary appointment won’t infuriate all the other candidates who want the Sheriff’s position permanently. Meanwhile, a cryptic note scrawled by Peralta before the shooting forces Mapstone to confront his own personal history, which has unwittingly drawn him into danger. As Mapstone discovers, the past has deadly consequences, and the mean streets of the New West have never been more sinister.
3. Dry Heat
Half a century after the unsolved murder of an FBI agent, the victim’s missing badge is found on the body of a dead transient. The case seems a perfect fit for David Mapstone, history-professor-turned-Maricopa-County-deputy-sheriff. That is, if he can get past a forced partnership with rival cold-case expert Sgt. Kate Vare and the FBI’s strange stonewalling about the details of the agent’s killing. To complicate matters, there are the crimes making history today, like the arrest of Russian mafia members in a multi- million-dollar fraud case. David’s wife, Lindsey, star of the sheriff’s Cybercrimes Bureau, was on the task force that busted the case wide open. But her triumph is short-lived when a hit in Scottsdale leaves three task-force members dead. Lindsey’s life in danger, Sheriff Peralta stashes Lindsey and David in a safe house. Then Sheriff Peralta inexplicably demands that David solve the cold case. The trail will take Mapstone to the most forlorn parts of Phoenix, as well as to San Francisco and picturesque southern Arizona, as he slowly uncovers the bloody secrets surrounding the mys-terious FBI badge. He’s got the brains and the leads. Now all he and Lindsey have to do is live long enough to bring justice to a fifty-year-old crime.
4. Arizona Dreams
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 40 years old; it isnt even 40 days old. And now this former student has disappeared. Is the murder just part of some political agenda? Is it connected to the new real estate development, Arizona Dreams? David isnt the only one discovering bodies. His wife, Deputy Lindsey Faith Mapstone, met a man with an ice-pick in his skull early in her day. And then she sees her half-sister Robin whom she hasnt seen in years. What are these memories shes now battling against? What does Robin want?
6. South Phoenix Rules
David Mapstone has returned to Phoenix, Arizona, the desert city he left behind a lifetime ago. The ex-cop, ex-history professor is working the police dept’s cold case desk, unearthing long-buried secrets. And he’s good at it: as an ex-historian Mapstone knows the past is never past, as an ex-cop he knows he can’t trust anybody…
Jax Delgado, a New York professor in Phoenix to research his next book has been tortured, murdered, his head severed and sent to his girlfriend. It shouldn’t be an assignment for Mapstone, but the girlfriend in question just happens to his sister-in-law, Robin.
Delgado’s murder has all the hallmarks of drug cartel execution, and Mapstone fears Robin could be the next target. But is she as innocent as she claims? And why would a professor be targeted by a drug cartel? Mapstone’s investigation will compel him to cross the line into South Phoenix, a world that plays by a different set of rules: South Phoenix Rules.
7. The Night Detectives
The private-detective business starts out badly for former Phoenix Deputy David Mapstone, who has teamed up with his old friend and boss, Sheriff Mike Peralta. Their first client is gunned down just after hiring them. The case: A suspicious death investigation involving a young Arizona woman who fell from a condo tower in San Diego. The police call Grace Hunter’s death a suicide, but the client doesn’t buy it. He’s her brother. Or is he? After his murder, police find multiple driver’s licenses and his real identity is a mystery. To complicate things further, an Arizona state senator who was instrumental in Peralta’s recent election defeat owns the condo. In San Diego, David finds the woman’s boyfriend, who is trying to care for their baby and can’t believe Grace would kill herself. He, too, hires the pair to solve Grace’s death. But a darker story emerges. Grace was putting herself through college as a high-priced call girl, an escort for rich men who valued her looks and discretion. Before the day is out, the boyfriend is murdered and David barely escapes with his own life. Someone is killing their clients. And may be coming for them. Solving the case will take Mapstone and Peralta into the world of human trafficking, corrupt politics, and the white supremacist movement. Neither the lovely beaches of San Diego nor the enchanting desert of Arizona can conceal the brutal danger that lies beneath. They no longer have badges but they are still detectives. The night detectives.
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