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Cold Case in the Hot Desert
Cold Case in the Hot Desert
Cold Case in the Hot Desert
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originally published as Tools of the Trade, a Chip Hale Handyman Mystery

When the remains of Chip Hale’s daughter are uprooted by a summer storm nine years after she went missing, he vows to find her killer. Cold case detectives from The Biggest Little City in the World have investigated her disappearance without success. But when another young woman goes missing, it becomes too much for the blue-collar handyman to handle by himself.

Hard as a titanium pop-rivet, except when it comes to raising his two tech-savvy, wise-cracking teenage granddaughters, Chip relies on the girls’ computer skills and his coworkers’ military and law enforcement backgrounds when looking for the dirtbag who murdered his daughter. Meanwhile the clock is ticking as his vigilante team risks everything by taking the law into their own hands. But will their old-school sleuthing tools of the trade be enough?

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Release dateDec 12, 2023
ISBN9798215603338
Cold Case in the Hot Desert
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Bruce Rolfe

Bruce Rolfe was born in Miami, Florida and earned a bachelor’s degree from Florida International University and a master’s degree from Pepperdine University. Before embarking on his writing career, Bruce spent twenty years as a search and rescue pilot in the United States Navy and is proud to say there are nine souls here today because he was there then. He is the author of the newly published Chip Hale Handyman mystery series and lives in the Pacific Northwest on Fidalgo Island with his wife, Cora, and her 19-year-old Norwegian Forest cat, Max.

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