Desert Kill Switch
Author | : Mark S. Bacon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2017-09-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 1626947198 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781626947191 |
Rating | : 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: A Deadly Vegas Pursuit--with a Twist... On an empty desert road, stressed-out ex-cop Lyle Deming finds a bullet-riddled body next to a vintage mint-condition 1970s Pontiac Firebird. When he returns to the scene with sheriff's deputies: no car, no body. Does the answer lie in Nostalgia City, the retro theme park where Lyle works? Nostalgia City VP Kate Sorensen, a former college basketball star, is in Reno, Nevada, on park business when she gets mixed up with a sleazy Las Vegas auto dealer who puts hidden "kill switches" and GPS trackers into the cars he sells to low-income buyers. Miss a payment--sometimes by as little as a few days--and your car is dead. Maybe you are, too. When Kate's accused of murder in Reno, Lyle rushes to help his blonde not-quite-girlfriend. Kate and Lyle plow through a deadly tangle of suspects and motives, hitting one dead end after another, as they struggle to exonerate Kate, catch a blackmailer, save a witness's life, and find the missing car and corpse. Desert Kill Switch is the second novel in this mystery series set in Nostalgia City, an Arizona theme park that re-creates--in every detail--a small town as it would have appeared in the mid-1970s.