The latest David Mapstone mystery
finds Mapstone lamenting a city that is no more as well as wondering what the
heck is going on with his business partner, Mike Peralta. The former Maricopa County
Sheriff and Mapstone run a private investigator business that does the
occasional security type job such as transporting diamonds. Peralta was on one such job earlier in the
day.
A job that went very strange as Peralta
apparently shot the guard that he was working with and stole the diamonds. In the
hours since a major investigation spearheaded by the FBI has been launched and
a manhunt is underway. All the FBI has managed to do so far, after grilling
both Mapstone and Peralta’s wife, Sharon, and doing a lot of searching is finding
a business card that has a note on it from Peralta stating that Mapstone had
nothing to do with the theft and for him to stay out of it.
As if that would ever happen.
This is just the tip of a multi tentacled
octopus that has Mapstone and his wife, Lindsey in the crosshairs. The result
is one of the best books in the series in years as it has plenty of action,
complexity, and suspense. No review will do this book justice. In the series
that began years ago with Concrete Desert author Jon Talton
takes readers on one incredible ride in High Country Nocturne: A David Mapstone
mystery.
Very much recommended.
High Country Nocturne: A David
Mapstone Mystery
Jon Talton
Poisoned Pen Press
2015
ISBN#978-1-4642-0398-5
Hardback (available in e-book, paperback,
and audio formats)
326 Pages
$24.95
Material obtained by way of the
Plano Public Library System.
For another take on the book head
over to Carl
Brookins’ review at Buried Under Books.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2015
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