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Cold Skies

✍ Scribed by Thomas King


Publisher
HarperCollins Canada
Year
2018
Tongue
English
Weight
161 KB
Series
A DreadfulWater mystery
Category
Fiction
City
Toronto
ISBN
1443455148

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


Thumps DreadfulWater has finally found some peace and quiet. His past as a California cop now far behind him, he's living out his retirement as a fine-arts photographer in the small town of Chinook. His health isn't great, and he could use a new stove, but as long as he's got his cat and a halfway decent plate of eggs, life is good.

All that changes when a body turns up on the eve of a major water conference and the understaffed sheriff's department turns to Thumps for help. Thumps wants none of it, but even he is intrigued when he learns the deceased was developing a new technology that could revolutionize water and oil drilling . . . and that could also lose some very powerful people a lot of money. As strangers begin to pour into Chinook for the conference, Thumps finds himself sinking deeper and deeper into a conflict between secretive players who will kill to get what they want.

In Cold Skies, the sly, wry, reluctant investigator of DreadfulWater and The Red...

✦ Subjects


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