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 murder and providing directions to the body. But things are never what they seem in Phoenix, a city of newcomers seeking fresh starts from sometimes dark pasts. There's a corpse in the desert, right where the letter said it would be found, but it's only weeks old. The burial site turns out to have bodyguards and when the 'former student' can't be found, Mapstone begins to wonder what her agenda is. As more fresh bodies turn up, the clues keep pointing back to the same remote piece of desert and a seemingly unconnected real estate development called Arizona Dreams...
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Jon Talton is a fourth-generation Arizonan. His writing was developed over 20 years as a journalist, working for newspapers in San Diego, Denver, Dayton, Cincinnati and Charlotte. Jon's columns have appeared in newspapers throughout North America. In 2001, Jon returned to Phoenix as a columnist for the Arizona Republic. Before journalism, Jon worked as an ambulance medic in the inner city of Phoenix. He was also a teacher. Educated at Arizona State University and Miami University of Ohio, Jon was also a Knight Fellow in Journalism at the University of Southern California. He lives in Phoenix's Willo Historic District with his wife, Susan.
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- EditoreRobert Hale Ltd
- Data di pubblicazione2007
- ISBN 10 0709082509
- ISBN 13 9780709082507
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine224
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