Angela Quinn is a thirty-eight-year-old Harley-riding exotic dancer with one final chance through Adult Drug Court to avoid a lengthy prison sentence for cocaine possession. After losing her job and Family Services placing her daughter in foster care, Angie is near the end of her rope.
Jay Connelly is a bail bondsman about to lose his business because of a skip worth a hundred grand, a man wanted for his connection to the murder of a dancer known as Sweet Sue. Jay contacts Angie because the skip is also a Harley rider, with ties to a motorcycle club that Angie’s father once belonged to. For Angie, the reward for the skip''s capture is an opportunity to keep the creditors at bay until she can find full-time employment—assuming she can locate him before the men behind Sue’s murder do.
Homicide Detective Mason Fowler is also working the Sue Sweeten murder, although he doesn’t initially realize it. Mase’s investigation unfolds after the discovery of a John Doe in one of the city’s storm tunnels. Eventually, the trail will lead to several additional murders, a corrupt cop, and a tie-in to a casino manager’s efforts to influence the Nevada Gaming Commission—all connected to the Sweeten murder. It will likewise reunite him with an ex-lover, Angela Quinn.
Michael Zimmer is the author of twenty-three novels, including his most recent titles—Two-Bit Street mysteries, with private eye Lafe Doyle. His work has been praised by Library Journal, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, Historical Novel Society, and others. City of Rocks (Five Star, 2012) was chosen by Booklist as a top ten Western novel for 2012. The Poacher''s Daughter (Five Star, 2014) was awarded the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s prestigious Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel (2015). He is a one-time winner and two-time finalist for the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America, and author of the American Legends Collection series. Zimmer lives in Utah with his wife Vanessa, and their two dogs.
Genre: Mystery
Jay Connelly is a bail bondsman about to lose his business because of a skip worth a hundred grand, a man wanted for his connection to the murder of a dancer known as Sweet Sue. Jay contacts Angie because the skip is also a Harley rider, with ties to a motorcycle club that Angie’s father once belonged to. For Angie, the reward for the skip''s capture is an opportunity to keep the creditors at bay until she can find full-time employment—assuming she can locate him before the men behind Sue’s murder do.
Homicide Detective Mason Fowler is also working the Sue Sweeten murder, although he doesn’t initially realize it. Mase’s investigation unfolds after the discovery of a John Doe in one of the city’s storm tunnels. Eventually, the trail will lead to several additional murders, a corrupt cop, and a tie-in to a casino manager’s efforts to influence the Nevada Gaming Commission—all connected to the Sweeten murder. It will likewise reunite him with an ex-lover, Angela Quinn.
Michael Zimmer is the author of twenty-three novels, including his most recent titles—Two-Bit Street mysteries, with private eye Lafe Doyle. His work has been praised by Library Journal, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, Historical Novel Society, and others. City of Rocks (Five Star, 2012) was chosen by Booklist as a top ten Western novel for 2012. The Poacher''s Daughter (Five Star, 2014) was awarded the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s prestigious Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel (2015). He is a one-time winner and two-time finalist for the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America, and author of the American Legends Collection series. Zimmer lives in Utah with his wife Vanessa, and their two dogs.
Genre: Mystery
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