Welcome to my world, where hard-working cops in two fast-growing cities, the fictional Rutherford, Minnesota and the very real Tucson, Arizona struggle to fit a personal life around the demands of their jobs. The law-breakers who oppose them work even harder, sometimes, just trying to stay one jump ahead. And when the question is, “Can’t we all just get along?” the answer is, “Probably not.”
Below is the latest Jake Hines adventure, in which crime in Minnesota gets remarkably well organized by loud, colorful Eastern European thugs, with a little help from local talent.
On the right, THE MAGIC LINE, #4 in the Sarah Burke series. It’s a fresh look at the border area just south of Tucson, where the price of everything magically rises. THE MAGIC LINE is available now on Amazon and Barnes&Noble and, if it isn’t on the shelf at your favorite bookstore, they should be happy to order it for you.
When a dead man is discovered in a house that's being used as a grow house and meth lab, Captain Jake Hines pulls in all his detectives to investigate. The victim carried no identification, but the discovery of a small Mass card, written in the Cyrillic alphabet, gives Jake an important lead...Jake must work fast, but economic cutbacks have hit the squad hard, and the detectives have conflicting agendas of their own...
"...an intriguing and entertaining police procedural." --Booklist
Two bad-guys-in-training invade a stash house in a residential area of Tucson. Multiple homicides follow. Sarah and her crew collect piles of evidence, mostly guns and money, while repeatedly chasing the tricky felon who started it all. Before they get the killing stopped, they’ve put a new shine on the concept of overtime.
“…Gunn pulls it all together in a satisfying fashion that should entice readers to seek earlier titles in the series.” Publisher’s Weekly, January 30, 2012.