Camelback Falls

Name: Camelback Falls
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Jon Talton
ISBN: 9781455167425

Author: Jon Talton

Narrator: Jim Meskimen

Unabridged: 6 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 07/12/2012

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

When his friend Peralta, newly sworn in as sheriff, is shot by a sniper, David Mapstone, former historian and new deputy sheriff, can't keep a cool, academic distance-and he'd better not. While Peralta lies comatose in the hospital, the powers that be install Mapstone as acting sheriff in his friend's place. Mapstone feels unqualified, but he's the only person whose temporary appointment won't infuriate all the other candidates, who want the sheriff's position permanently. Meanwhile, a cryptic note scrawled by Peralta before the shooting forces Mapstone to confront his own personal history, inadvertently drawing him into danger. Mapstone soon discovers that the past has deadly consequences and the mean streets of the new West have never been more sinister. "[A] twisty and crafty plot."-Chicago Tribune

About Jon Talton

Jon Talton is a fourth-generation Arizonan, the author of several novels, and a former columnist for The Arizona Republic. He now lives in Seattle, where he is the economics columnist for The Seattle Times and writes the blog Rogue Columnist.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mariam

Don Bolles was blown up in his car about a block from where I was working in Phoenix. I followed the in's and out's of hunting for his murderers for years until it finally all went away. Mapstone is with the Sheriff's department in this fiction book but anyone who lived in Phoenix at the time would......more

Goodreads review by Steve

Oct. 2019 Second in the Mapstone series. fast paced.I'm glad the ending wasn't farfetched like in some series. Sort of "where did that come from?". the main characters are quite likable and complicated. It was a good mix of life in 1970 and now. We lived in Phoenix from 1971 to 1979. I could definit......more

Goodreads review by Betty

Mike Peralta has been elected sheriff of Maricopa county. t a reception for him. He is shot and lays in a coma in a Phoenix hospital. David Mapstone is appointed acting sheriff as all the conflicting parties could agree on him. Before the shooting, Mike mentioned Camelback Falls. As David works to f......more