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The Pain Nurse
A doctor’s brutal murder shakes a big-city hospital and someone stalks nurse Cheryl Beth Wilson. But to the police, she’s a potential suspect. One patient, a detective, knows the chilling truth: this killer will strike again and the clock is running. The Pain Nurse launched a new series, The Cincinnati Casebooks.
Cactus Heart
The long-awaited sequel to Concrete Desert traces David Mapstone's uneasy re-entry into law enforcement and his tentative relationship with Deputy Lindsey Adams. All is unended by the new evidence in a notorious Phoenix kidnapping from the 1940s, a very contemporary killer on the loose, and a mysterious and very beguiling new woman in Mapstone's life.
Also in the David Mapstone series:
Concrete Desert: Meet David Mapstone -- unemployed history professor forced to come home to Phoenix, where his only job prospect is working for his old friend in the Sheriff's Office. Using the historian's tools along with his .357 magnum Colt Python, Mapstone adapts. The thinking person's modern noir hero. Purchase.
Camelback Falls: When Sheriff Peralta is nearly assassinated, David and Lindsey are racing the clock to find the killer and the mysterious meaning of the sheriff's last words. The trail takes David back 20 years to his days as a young deputy. Purchase. (Look for the paperback this spring).
Dry Heat: The mean streets of Phoenix have never been more dangerous, with Lindsey on the run from the Russian mafia and David struggling to solve the 40-year-old murder of an FBI agent -- whose badge turns up on a dead homeless man. Winner of Arizona Highways' 2005 Best Fiction award. Purchase.
Arizona Dreams: When a skeleton is found in the desert, it's not an ordinary Phoenix body dump. Historian-turned-deputy Mapstone is soon caught up in a quintessential Arizona crime -- with lethal stakes. Meanwhile, Lindsey has her own secret turn up. "Talton crisply evokes Phoenix's New West ambience and keeps readers guessing with unexpected plot twists," writes Publishers Weekly. Purchase.
And look for Jon's new short story in the upcoming collection Phoenix Noir, from Akashic Books.
