Description Bill Pronzini\'s riveting Western mystery, The Peaceful Valley Crime Wave, takes on the modern world with old-fashioned violence--and his Peaceful Valley is anything but...
Pronzini\'s books include the Nameless Detective series, the longest-running private investigator series in print..
Pronzini\'s clear style seamlessly weaves [storylines] together, turning them into a quick, compelling read." He lives and writes in California, with his wife, Crime novelist Marcia Muller.
It is no wonder, then, that the Detroit Free Press said of him, "It\'s always nice to see masters at work.
About the Author BILL Pronzini has been nominated for, or won, every prize offered to Crime fiction writers, including the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
It\'s not long before the first corpse shows up, bringing the peace in the Valley to a thundering end.
Teenager Charity Axthelm goes missing, Reba Purvis\'s housekeeper is poisoned with cyanide Reba is sure was meant for her, and Lucas\'s gut tells him that this is only the beginning.
That is, until mid-October, 1914, when the theft of a wooden cigar store Indian sets off a Crime wave like nothing Lucas has ever seen.
Aside from the occasional drunken brawl or minor disturbance out on the reservation, he hasn\'t had to resort to his fists or sidearm in years.
And that\'s just how Sheriff Lucas Monk likes it.
Nothing much happens in Peaceful Valley, Montana.
Description Bill Pronzini\'s riveting Western mystery, The Peaceful Valley Crime Wave, takes on the modern world with old-fashioned violence--and his Peaceful Valley is anything but..
