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    Concrete Desert

    By Jon Talton

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    Cold cases haunt the present in the desert city of Phoenix, Arizona.
    A PHOENIX COLD CASE: 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...

    CONCRETE DESERT: In 1959 a young woman took a late-night cab home and disappeared. Two weeks later, she was found naked, strangled in the Harquahala desert. Mapstone links her death to four other girls similarly strangled, stripped and dumped. Were these deaths the work of a serial killer?

    Mapstone's research is interrupted by his reacquaintance with an old flame. Back then, it ended badly, but now she wants him to find her sister who has disappeared. Initially, Mapstone has more leads on the 40-year-old murders than the missing sister. Until she's found in the desert. Stripped. And strangled.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateDec 1, 2012
    ISBN9781781850190
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    Concrete Desert
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    Jon Talton

    Jon Talton is a fourth-generation Arizonan who grew up in the same neighbourhood that Mapstone calls home. He is the author of nine novels, including the Mapstone mysteries, The Pain Nurse and Deadline Man.

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    • 5/5
      The characters keep you reading, the plot leads you on but you enjoy the language so much there is no hurry to get to the climax and end. Jon Talton is a terrific writer. Written in 2001, Concrete Desert is the first of a series about a different and interesting protagonist named David Mapstone--out of work History Professor back in his old slot of Deputy Sheriff--only temporarily--and working a cold-case and a new murder, Mapstone is the new denizen of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office under his old boss Chief Deputy Mike Peralta. The entrance back into his life of a long-ago love of his life not only stirs the pot, but adds just the right flavor for a great mystery story. Well written, good read and when done you can't wait to find a copy of Camelback Falls to see what trouble Talton has in store for Mapstone (and Peralta)--all for your reading pleasure.
    • 3/5
      I like to "discover" new authors who set their work in the southwest. Talton succeeds in making his love-hate realtionship with Phoenix compelling, but fails badly in constructing believable characters or plot.