BOOK #2 OF 2 IN DEAF ROW SERIES
When a Colorado cannabis billionaire is assassinated, retired Denver homicide cop Woodrow "Mountain" Bell is pulled back into the inferno—one that sparked half a century earlier at a vanished hippie commune called Jericho. As Bell digs into the ashes, he uncovers links between the mogul and a charismatic killer who once fled those same mountains. Now, with the old codgers of "Deaf Row" at his side, Bell must face ghosts, secrets, and the unholy marriage of idealism and greed before the past burns the living one last time.
He's got help, whether he wants it or not. His aging morning coffee cronies at Midnight's Tommyknockers Diner—they call themselves "Deaf Row"—a raucous klatsch comprising the retired newspaper editor, an old priest, town doctor, fire chief, and assorted other local codgers who disguise affection for and loyalty to each other as insult and banter. These old men are wrestling with the creeping sense they're growing invisible. But they're not only Bell's Greek chorus and conscience, they're his motley crew of "forensic" experts who help him solve—sometimes unwittingly—the riddles in which he's tangled.
Part mystery, part elegy, Deep End explores the stubborn endurance of decency and friendship in a world that forgets its elders and its dead. It's about love that outlasts youth, courage that survives retirement, and justice that often comes—if it comes at all—through fire.
Lyrical, witty, and deeply human, Deep End stands alone yet expands the world introduced in Deaf Row—a page-turning crime story (informed by the author's decades of experience covering crime and its ripple) as well as a moving meditation on age, memory, and the unfinished business that follows us into the twilight.
Genre: Mystery
When a Colorado cannabis billionaire is assassinated, retired Denver homicide cop Woodrow "Mountain" Bell is pulled back into the inferno—one that sparked half a century earlier at a vanished hippie commune called Jericho. As Bell digs into the ashes, he uncovers links between the mogul and a charismatic killer who once fled those same mountains. Now, with the old codgers of "Deaf Row" at his side, Bell must face ghosts, secrets, and the unholy marriage of idealism and greed before the past burns the living one last time.
He's got help, whether he wants it or not. His aging morning coffee cronies at Midnight's Tommyknockers Diner—they call themselves "Deaf Row"—a raucous klatsch comprising the retired newspaper editor, an old priest, town doctor, fire chief, and assorted other local codgers who disguise affection for and loyalty to each other as insult and banter. These old men are wrestling with the creeping sense they're growing invisible. But they're not only Bell's Greek chorus and conscience, they're his motley crew of "forensic" experts who help him solve—sometimes unwittingly—the riddles in which he's tangled.
Part mystery, part elegy, Deep End explores the stubborn endurance of decency and friendship in a world that forgets its elders and its dead. It's about love that outlasts youth, courage that survives retirement, and justice that often comes—if it comes at all—through fire.
Lyrical, witty, and deeply human, Deep End stands alone yet expands the world introduced in Deaf Row—a page-turning crime story (informed by the author's decades of experience covering crime and its ripple) as well as a moving meditation on age, memory, and the unfinished business that follows us into the twilight.
Genre: Mystery
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