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The Pain Nurse
A new cast of characters, and a new setting---Cincinnati! Read the next Talton mystery in April.

www.roguecolumnist.com
Talking Points Memo and the Washington Note are paying attention, are you? With links to Jon's Seattle Times columns too.

Bouchercon in Baltimore Oct. 9-12
Fabulous annual gathering of mystery fans and your favorite authors. Jon's panel is set for Friday. See you there.

September 22 - 24, Phoenix
Jon's back for BigReadAZ. See the News and Events page for a full schedule of his appearances.




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New Book

The Mapstone Mystery Series Continues!


Be careful where you step. In Deputy David Mapstone's case, a step in a dark warehouse leads into the city's forgotten underground. That's where the ghastly truth is hiding about a notorious kidnapping from sixty years before. The discovery leads David to put his life, and heart, at risk.

Cactus Heart offers a vivid, heart-pounding ride through the mean streets of the New West, showing again why this series has been praised as intelligent and entertaining modern noir. A "prequel," it also answers all the questions for Mapstone fans: how David and Lindsey got together; David's uncomfortable debt to the gangster Bobby Hamid; Mike Peralta's rise to sheriff; and the sexy, mysterious woman from David's past, Gretchen.