Jon Talton

High Country Nocturne: a David Mapstone Mystery Jon Talton

Publisher Marketing: 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 his business partner and longtime friend David Mapstone with a stark choice. He can cooperate with the FBI, or strike out on his own to find Peralta and what really happened. Mapstone knows he can count on his wife Lindsey, one of the top good hackers in law enforcement. But what if they ve both been betrayed? Mapstone is tested further when the new sheriff wants him back as a deputy, putting to use his historian s expertise to solve a very special cold case. The stakes turn deadly when David and Lindsey are stalked by a trained killer whose specialty is suiciding her targets. In depressed, post-recession Phoenix, every certainty has become scrambled, from the short hustle of the powerful real-estate industry to the loyalties Mapstone once took for granted. Could Peralta really be a jewel thief or worse? The deeper Mapstone digs into the world of sun-baked hustlers, corrupt cops, moneyed retirees, and mobsters, the more things are not what they seem. Ultimately, Mapstone must risk everything to find the truth. High Country Nocturne is an ambitious, searing, and gritty novel, with a fast-paced story as hard-edged as the stolen diamonds themselves." Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2015 (EAN 9781464203985, Hardcover) Booklist 05/15/2015 pg. 27 (EAN 9781464203985, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Library Journal 06/01/2015 pg. 77 (EAN 9781464203985, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2015 pg. 42 (EAN 9781464204005, Paperback) Booklist 05/15/2015 pg. 27 (EAN 9781464204005, Paperback) - *Starred Review Contributor Bio:  Talton, Jon Jon Talton is the author of 11 novels, including the David Mapstone Mysteries and the thriller Deadline Man. He is also a veteran journalist, including the former business editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Jon lives in Seattle where he is the economics columnist for the Seattle Times and runs the blog Rogue Columnist.