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Jon Talton
A cache of diamonds is stolen in Phoenix. The prime suspect is former Maricopa County sheriff Mike Peralta, now a private investigator. Disappearing into Arizona’s mountainous high country, Peralta leaves…
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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…
A former student turns up in David Mapstone’s office with the perfect case for this history professor turned deputy: a letter left by her deceased father confessing to a forty-year-old…
Summer in Phoenix gets a lot hotter when unemployed history professor David Mapstone returns home to discover a world of danger and corruption.
In Dry Heat, David Mapstone, The History Cop, is assigned to find out why an FBI agent’s badge turns up on the dead body of a homeless man. 7,500, print.
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.
Cheryl Beth Wilson is an elite nurse at Cincinnati Memorial Hospital who finds a doctor brutally murdered in a secluded office. Does her past affair make her the next victim?
A novel that is both electrifying and intelligent, Deadline Man follows a man known only as the columnist and an intrepid young reporter who are running to make the deadline…
The private-detective business starts out badly for former Phoenix Deputy David Mapstone and his old friend Sheriff Mike Peralta. They are investigating a suspicious death involving a young Arizona woman…
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 kidnapping of…
In 1999 Phoenix, it’s the sweet season. Christmas and the new millennium are only weeks away. But history professor David Mapstone, just hired by the Sheriff’s Office, still finds trouble…
When a professor is brutally murdered, police connect him to a deadly drug cartel. This shouldn’t be a case for historian turned deputy David Mapstoneexcept the victim had been dating…
A handsome young New York professor comes to Phoenix to research his new book. But after he’s brutally murdered, police connect him to one of the world’s most deadly drug…
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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…
A handsome young New York professor comes to Phoenix to research his new book. But when he’s brutally murdered, police connect him to one of the world’s most deadly drug…
Great War veteran and rising star Gene Hammons lost his job as a homicide detective when he tried to prove that a woman was wrongly convicted of murder to protect…
In this fresh take on the classic noir genre, Private investigator Hammons is up against some of the city's dirtiest criminals and pulled into a world of blackmail, smuggling, and…
Cincinnati homicide Detective Will Borders now walks with a cane and lives alone with constant discomfort. But when a star cop is brutally murdered, he’s assigned to find her killer…
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…
