Here is a mystery, suspense, or thriller ebook that we recently found by sleuthing (as it were) through new or recently reissued titles from independent publishers during October 2013 priced $3.99 or less …
T. Jefferson Parker has slowly been publishing some of his early thrillers as ebooks and two became available this week.
Laguna Heat is the author's first crime novel, published by St. Martin's Press in 1985. He says of the book on his website, "This was a real labor of love. Five full drafts, five years of writing part-time while I did my newspaper job. Like a lot of young writers I was trying to copy my heros. I ended up with a draft of bad Chandler, a draft of bad Hemingway, a draft of bad Tom McGuane, a draft of bad Garcia-Marquez. So finally I sat down and wrote another draft in pure Jeff Parker. … It's a young man's book and young men's books can be good things. It still holds up, I think, the story is strong."
The Triggerman's Dance is the fifth book in his "California Crime" series, originally published by Hyperion in 1996.
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Laguna Heat by T. Jefferson Parker
A California Crime Novel
Publisher: T. Jefferson Parker
Publication Date: October 22, 2013
In the heat of Laguna, one man must confront the mysteries of his past …
Laguna, where every day the sun makes a promise the nighttime breaks, while the super-rich live out expensive fantasies in posh beach houses and drown their memories in Cuervo Gold margaritas — where trouble has swept in like a Santa Ana wind, blowing the cover off a world of torture, murder, and blood-red secrets — where a crazed killer has turned paradise into a Disneyland of depraved violence — with a fiery vengeance — and where homicide cop Tom Shephard unravels a grisly mystery that reaches back across forty years of sordid sex, blackmail, and suicide into the dark corners of his own past, and sweats out a deadly truth in the sweltering Laguna heat.
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The Triggerman's Dance by T. Jefferson Parker
A California Crime Novel
Publisher: T. Jefferson Parker
Publication Date: October 22, 2013
Two enemies must work together to find the killer of a woman they both loved …
When Rebecca Harris is murdered in front of the newspaper offices of the Orange County Journal, she leaves behind friends and co-workers shocked by her violent death. But she also leaves behind two rivals who were in love with her — passionate Joshua Weinstein, and FBI agent she was engaged to marry, and John Menden, the quiet newsman who was her lover. These men knew of each other's part in Rebecca's complex life, each hoping to be ultimately chosen by her.
Weinstein solves the murder but he can't get the evidence to make an arrest — the only person who can do that is Menden. Working together in an uneasy alliance, the two men join forces to bring down Rebecca's killer. Weinstein, the lawman, guides Menden, the journalist into a powerful paramilitary organization where his every move will be scrutinized and vetted by dangerous men, and where his body and soul will be tested in the extreme.
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