Jon Talton
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News and upcoming events
May-June 2010: Publication of my new thriller, "Deadline Man."
YES -- there will be another Mapstone mystery. I'm writing it now. In the meantime, all five Mapstones are available in paperback now.
YES -- there will be another Mapstone mystery. I'm writing it now. In the meantime, all five Mapstones are available in paperback now.
News:
Deadline Man, a thriller set is the newspaper world, is scheduled for release in May. It's Jon's first thriller.
The response to The Pain Nurse has been so strong that Cheryl Beth and Will are now part of a new series, The Cincinnati Casebooks. The Pain Nurse is the first in the series.
Check out the webcast of Jon's appearance at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore with Barbara Peters.
NEW: With the publication of Camelback Falls and Dry Heat, the entire collection of David Mapstone mysteries is now available in paperback! What a great gift -- also doubles as a doorstop!
Deadline Man, a thriller set is the newspaper world, is scheduled for release in May. It's Jon's first thriller.
The response to The Pain Nurse has been so strong that Cheryl Beth and Will are now part of a new series, The Cincinnati Casebooks. The Pain Nurse is the first in the series.
Check out the webcast of Jon's appearance at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore with Barbara Peters.
NEW: With the publication of Camelback Falls and Dry Heat, the entire collection of David Mapstone mysteries is now available in paperback! What a great gift -- also doubles as a doorstop!
From Cincy magazine:
A Mystery Set By Our Reality
Jon Talton, a Cincinnati Enquirer business editor and columnist from
1993 to 1996, who now lives in Seattle, is known for writing mysteries
set in Arizona. For his latest book, Talton turns to Cincinnati, a
place he obviously remembers well.The Pain Nurse (Poisoned Pen Press, $24.95),
available in April, resonates with Talton’s experiences here, as well
as his life-changing, life-threatening encounter with a spinal cord
tumor. Some snippets from the novel reflect his knowledge of the Queen
City:
“It was a nice polite Midwestern city on the surface. Anybody who paid attention knew better. Neighborhood was identity, and some of the neighborhoods were lethal.”
“Growing up on the west side, he (Mueller) had played football for Elder, and had never been farther than Chicago. In other words, he had the résumé of nearly everyone who rose to command in the Cincinnati Police Department. It was one more reason Will (Borders) would never move ahead. He was Scots-Irish Protestant in a German Catholic town.”
“Interstate 75 was the Sauerkraut Curtain: to the west lay Price Hill and, beyond, the neat homes to which the German families had moved in the 1930s and 1940s as they grew more prosperous.”
The main setting is Cincinnati Memorial Hospital. The pain nurse of the title, Cheryl Beth Wilson, and former homicide detective Will Borders — recovering from the removal of that tumor — team up to tackle a serial killer dubbed the Cincinnati Slasher. Like the Cincinnati Strangler case of the 1960s, someone has already been caught, tried and executed for those crimes. But just as some believed Posteal Laskey wasn’t guilty of all of the Strangler’s killings, Borders suspects the real Cincinnati Slasher is still at large and at work once more.
Readers who’ve enjoyed the Cincinnati-based mysteries of Jonathan Valin, Jim DeBrosse and Albert Pyle should welcome Talton’s maiden Cincinnati effort.
“It was a nice polite Midwestern city on the surface. Anybody who paid attention knew better. Neighborhood was identity, and some of the neighborhoods were lethal.”
“Growing up on the west side, he (Mueller) had played football for Elder, and had never been farther than Chicago. In other words, he had the résumé of nearly everyone who rose to command in the Cincinnati Police Department. It was one more reason Will (Borders) would never move ahead. He was Scots-Irish Protestant in a German Catholic town.”
“Interstate 75 was the Sauerkraut Curtain: to the west lay Price Hill and, beyond, the neat homes to which the German families had moved in the 1930s and 1940s as they grew more prosperous.”
The main setting is Cincinnati Memorial Hospital. The pain nurse of the title, Cheryl Beth Wilson, and former homicide detective Will Borders — recovering from the removal of that tumor — team up to tackle a serial killer dubbed the Cincinnati Slasher. Like the Cincinnati Strangler case of the 1960s, someone has already been caught, tried and executed for those crimes. But just as some believed Posteal Laskey wasn’t guilty of all of the Strangler’s killings, Borders suspects the real Cincinnati Slasher is still at large and at work once more.
Readers who’ve enjoyed the Cincinnati-based mysteries of Jonathan Valin, Jim DeBrosse and Albert Pyle should welcome Talton’s maiden Cincinnati effort.
— Bob Hahn
