As a former soldier, Gordon Reeve knows something about killing. So despite the fact that the death of his brother Jim has been ruled a suicide, Gordon can't shake the feeling that someone is responsible. Traveling alone across an ocean, he arrives in California determined to get answers: Why was the car Jim's body was found in locked from the outside? Who would want Jim dead? And now why do the local cops seem bent on thwarting Gordon's efforts to uncover the truth? With all the verve and taut pacing that have made Ian Rankin an internationally renowned suspense writer, Blood Hunt is a gripping story of one man's dogged pursuit of justice.
A new novel from the "master" (Tony Hillerman) of the Wind River mysteries.Catherine McLeod is an investigative reporter for the Journal, one of Denver's major newspapers. Her recent coverage of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes filing a claim for twenty-seven million acres of their ancestral lands has made her the target for assassination. Her investigation uncovers a conspiracy involving her ex-husband's wealthy family and state politicians. And as Catherine unravels the truth, she discovers some startling facts about her own heritage, making her would-be killer all the more desperate to find her...
Hollywood location scout John Pellam arrives in the scenic, yet dying town of Maddox, Missouri, to check it out for an upcoming Bonnie and Clyde -- style shoot-'em-up. But after real bullets leave two dead and a cop paralyzed, he finds himself neck-deep in a real-life, deadly plot. Trapped between the feds and the mob in a place full of sinister secrets, this is one script Pellam may be written out of -- permanently.
