Cast In Stone (A Leo Waterman Mystery)

Ford, G. M.

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9781469216904: Cast In Stone (A Leo Waterman Mystery)

ISBN 10: 1469216906 ISBN 13: 9781469216904

Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 2012

Leo’s boyhood hero, Henry “Heck” Sundstrom, was larger than life. Lately, however, Heck’s life has been spiraling out of control. First there was the honeymoon boating accident that killed Heck’s son and new daughter-in-law, Allison. And now the big man himself is dying—struck down by a delivery truck in a seedy section of Seattle. As he investigates, Leo begins to wonder if Allison went down with the ship. And whether, with the aid of his aging legmen, “the Boys,” he can prove the “late” Mrs. Heck is more alive—and lethal—than anyone ever suspected.

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About the Author:

G.M. Ford broke onto the mystery scene with Who in Hell is Wanda Fuca?, a gin-soaked tome featuring Seattle private investigator Leo Waterman. The six-book Leo Waterman series was nominated for several awards, including the Shamus, the Anthony, and the Lefty. In 2001, Ford launched a new series featuring disgraced reporter Frank Corso and his goth assistant, Meg Dougherty. In 2011, after a twelve-year hiatus, he decided to write a new Leo Waterman novel, Thicker Than Water, which Thomas & Mercer promptly bought. His eighth Leo Waterman book, Chump Change, followed in 2014. Ford lives and works in Seattle, and is married to the beautiful and talented mystery author Skye Kathleen Moody.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Years and years ago, stunning Marge Sundstrom broke up the gaggle of hangers-on and friends her new husband Heck, commercial fisherman of the Lady Day, had gathered around him. Now it's Marge who needs the solace of friends, with her son Nicky killed in a boating accident, and his grief-stricken father hospitalized after getting hit by a car he didn't bother to avoid. The records list a third casualty--Nicky's bride, Allison Stark, who steamrolled Nicky the same way Marge had steamrolled Heck--but Marge doesn't believe for a minute that Allison's dead, and she wants Leo Waterman, one of the original Lady Day alumni, to hunt her down. And hunt he does, in an odyssey that takes him from his old haunts at Seattle's fisherman's wharf--where he picks up the trail of still another untidy disappearance--to the wilds of Wisconsin, from a bilked realtor to a football player-turned- televangelist, each with a shivery tale to tell about the chameleon last seen in the guise of Allison Stark Sundstrom. Together with his aging Irregulars, who like detecting more than anything but drinking, Leo follows each twist and bump in this fatal femme's life story till the predictable, but highly effective, finale. A stronger villain and tighter plotting lifts this search- and-destroyer over Leo's debut, Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca? (1995). -- Copyright �1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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