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Arizona Dreams

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When a former student turns up in David Mapstone's office, she seems to have the perfect case for this history-professor-turned-deputy: a letter left by her deceased father, confessing to a forty-year-old murder and providing directions to the body. But things are never what they seem in Phoenix, a fast-buck city of newcomers seeking fresh starts from sometimes dark pasts.

Just ask David's wife, Deputy Lindsey Faith Mapstone. One morning the start of the Willo District home tour is interrupted by murder. A man lies dead with an ice pick in his brain. And Lindsey runs right into her half-sister Robin among the crowd gathering in the historic Phoenix neighborhood, the sister Lindsey hasn't seen in years. The reunion with Robin rekindles memories about their rough upbringing and the deep rift that they may, or may not, bridge. Why is Robin here now?

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 5, 2006
      Retired professor David Mapstone once again brings a historian's touch to his job as Phoenix deputy sheriff in Talton's smartly plotted fourth adventure (after 2004's Dry Heat
      ). Nothing appears to link the ice-pick murder of lawyer Alan Cordesman in David's neighborhood with a body in the desert that turns out to be that of landowner Harry Bell. Months later, David starts connecting the dots when Harry's brother, Louis, also turns up with an ice pick through his skull, and David's supposed former student, who originally directed him to the location of the body in the desert, proves to be Dana Earley, wife of Tom Earley, Maricopa county supervisor and chief critic of the sheriff's department, run by David's prickly boss, Mike Peralta. David also links the Earleys to Arizona Dreams, a massive new development with one major problem: it has no water supply, a requisite in Arizona. But the Bell land does. While much of this is familiar territory, Talton crisply evokes Phoenix's New West ambience and keeps readers guessing with unexpected plot twists.

    • Library Journal

      August 15, 2006
      Dave Mapstone is a historian -turned -deputy sheriff writing a book about the cases he has worked on since returning to Phoenix. He also teaches at the local university and tries his hand at solving cold cases, like the 40-year-old murder confession that uncovers a fresh corpse and that may be tied to a proposed housing development. Talton, the author of three other Mapstone mysteries ("Concrete Dreams", "Camelback Falls", and "Dry Heat") and a fourth-generation Arizonan, captures the frenzied state of mindless land development that threatens to overwhelm the Southwest today.

      Copyright 2006 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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