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South Phoenix Rules

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2 of 3 copies available
2 of 3 copies available

A handsome young New York professor comes to Phoenix to research his new book. When he is brutally murdered, police connect him to one of the world's most deadly drug cartels. This shouldn't be a case for historian‑turned‑deputy David Mapstone—except that the victim had been dating David's sister‑in‑law, Robin, and now she's a target too. David's wife, Lindsey, is in Washington with an elite anti-cyber-terror unit and she makes one demand of him: protect Robin.

This won't be an easy job, with the city police suspicious of Robin and trying to pressure her. With the sheriff's office in turmoil, David is even more of an outsider. And the gangsters are able to outgun and outspend law enforcement. It doesn't help that David and Lindsey's long‑distance marriage is under strain. But the danger is real and growing. To save Robin, David must leave his stack of historic crimes and plunge into the savage world of smuggling—people, drugs, and guns—in Phoenix.

Arizona's "History Shamus" returns inSouth Phoenix Rules. It's the most gripping and personal David Mapstone Mystery yet.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      As David Mapstone's life spirals into the ground, narrator Jim Meskimen expresses his simmering anxieties. Mapstone's unique career as a cold case deputy has ground to a halt because his boss, the Maricopa sheriff, lost his reelection bid. His wife has moved to another city without him, and their separation is the tip of the marital iceberg. As if that weren't enough, his live-in sister-in-law receives a grisly UPS delivery: the bubble-wrapped head of her lover. Mapstone must protect his sister-in-law while trying to discover her dead lover's true identity. Meskimen allows the well-drawn secondary characters to enhance the plot. In particular, he distinguishes the self-possessed former sheriff with delicate Hispanic inflections and employs subtle characterizations in the provocative portrayal of gang clout in South Phoenix. On the whole, narrator and author craft a stimulating whodunit. N.M.C. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 6, 2010
      Near the outset of Talton's well-plotted sixth mystery to feature historian turned Phoenix deputy sheriff David Mapstone (after 2007's Cactus Heart), Mapstone resigns as deputy after the election of a new sheriff he doesn't like. But a grisly crime that strikes close to home—his sister-in-law, Robin, who recently lost her curator job and is temporarily living above Mapstone's garage, receives a package in the mail containing her boyfriend's head—forces the "History Shamus" back into the line of fire. He and Robin become entangled in a deadly quagmire involving notorious Mexican gangs, multinational drug cartels, weapons smuggling, undercover ATF and DEA agents, and a mystery linked to a fire bombing dating to 1940. Modern-day Phoenix, which has become the center for drug trafficking organizations' expansion into the U.S., serves as the stark backdrop for this profound, heartrending crime tale.

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