Women Detectives - Fiction, Police Stories, Occupations - Fiction
Log in to track your reading progress.
Overview
Tenoclock, Colorado, is one of those sleepy, little mountain towns that suddenly gets discovered and discovers that being a place to be often leaves something to be desired . . . unless, of course, you're part of the power structure. Now the town teeters at the edge: Newsweek calls it "the new Vail" and the Hollywood crowd is beginning to buy up the mountainside. Still, Deputy Sheriff Johnelle "Johnnie" Baker can always count on closing the police station at 11:00 P.M. Then one September night, as the tourists begin arriving to watch the aspen change color - and to watch the celebrities watching, too - the sleep is knocked right out of Tenoclock. Johnnie's routine is shattered by a jail brawl and a missing persons report, not to mention the demands for attention from a not-so-significant other. At every scene, the facts just don't add up . . . and witnesses are falling like autumn leaves. One of the bodies is that of the sheriff. The town fathers think naming Johnnie sheriff will be the kind of good publicity they've been seeking, and, after all, what can she do to cause trouble? She'll follow orders, the dead will be buried, and no one will ask embarrassing questions of the folks who are doing so much for the standard of living. Johnnie Baker thinks otherwise.Editorials
Publishers Weekly -
Tenoclock, Colo., once a frontier town, is now touted as the ``new Vail,'' offering tourists skiing, staged gunfights in the streets and shopping at Saks Fifth Avenue. The fantasy is disturbed when the body of Sheriff Jim Way is sawed in two by the narrow-gauge railway train on the same night that a father and his runaway teenaged daughter disappear. Johnelle ``Johnnie'' Baker, Way's deputy and a failed starlet, is named acting sheriff by the county boosters, who block her investigation and howl angrily when she names former sheriff Butt Peabody as her deputy. Another teenaged girl goes missing, while Johnnie, after tracing the mud on the tires of Way's Bronco to an abandoned mine where she makes a gruesome discovery, is trapped in a maze of underground tunnels. As she tries to survive and find a way out, Butt tracks the missing persons, who, like the sheriff, were last seen alive at the secluded Sky Estates mansion of an over-the-hill actor and his menacing bodyguard. Danger, suspense and romance come together in this action-filled mystery by the author, as John Miles, of Murder in Retirement. (June)Book Details
Published
June 1, 1994
Publisher
Walker & Company
Pages
232
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780802731852