Seattle's Ballard Avenue is the beat for officers Grace Stevens and Katherine Murphy-and the scene of a sadistic murder. Enlisted by the Sex Crimes Unit, Grace and Katherine are charting darker territory than ever before-and discovering, firsthand, the evil that men do.

Second Watch

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Clausen, Lowen

Mystery

Signet

While attending college for an advanced degree, Officer Grace Stevens, along with her partner Katherine Murphy, investigates a charming football hero who is also a serial rapist, forcing them both to enter the competitive world of college sports where certain athletes are untouchable. Original.

Third & Forever

Literature & Fiction

United States

A Seattle beat cop is haunted by his discovery of an abandoned dead infant in a seedy downtown hotel and sets out to uncover the truth about the child and those responsible for its death.

First Avenue

BERKLEY

In the gray predawn, Office Sam Wright paddles rhythmically in his sea kayak from his home in a secluded cove to the shores of downtown Seattle. His is the first shift, the quiet shift. His beat, First Avenue, is a street close to the pulse of the citys darkness. This morning, Sam, with his well-ordered life and his solitary police beat, is about to witness a grisly sight that will alter everything. 
From the moment Sam is called to a run-down hotel on First Avenue to check out a locked room and a strange smell, the veteran policemans questions about life and death begin to surface. A baby, an abandoned dead baby, sends Sam and his colleague Katherine Murphy on a search to uncover the story behind the tragedy. In the connecting bits of evidence that lead Sam to the truth, at least to the degree that he can find the truth on this street, Sam will encounter the two things he has managed to avoidhis past and his future. 
When novelist Lowen Clausen first began writing First Avenue, there was no distance between the street and me. Having once been a seasoned beat cop in the waterfront city, Clausen creates a convincing portrait of Sam, who cant get the image of the dead baby out of his mind and who can no longer sweat out the streets in his daily kayak trek home. During Sams dogged investigation emerge other intriguing people in Sams lifehis beautiful neighbor Georgia; Sams friend Silve, the restaurant owner in the Pike Place Market; and the mysterious young Alaska Native girl, Maria.

Watershed Books

Set in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Second Watch is the story of two young police officers, Katherine Murphy and her new partner, Grace Stevens, who are sent from their quiet footbeat to investigate the death of a girl who has been stuffed into garbage bags and discarded at a nearby garbage dump. The two police officers are drawn into an undercover investigation that reveals the silent cruelty of child abuse, an almost unimaginable but far too common crime. 
In Second Watch, Clausen explores the maturing character of the young street cop he first introduced in his acclaimed novel, First Avenue. As one of the first women cops on the Seattle Police Department, Katherine Murphy has a unique perspective to bring to the novel, but Clausen explores the character of the young woman far beyond her job as a police officer. The book also gives voice to a small boy, trapped in his childhood by brutality that he can’t control and can’t escape. In Second Watch, Clausen shows that the character of a person cannot be discovered until one pushes aside prejudice and preconception and is willing to watch and listen and learn.

Silo Pr

Walking the familiar beat on Ballard Avenue with her partner, Katherine Murphy, Seattle Police Officer Grace Stevens walks through time as well, recalling her special childhood game of sidewalk hopscotch that she once played on this same street—a game with self-constructed, secret rules that she would never break. Grace’s longing for unbroken rules and for a kind of perfect balance is just that—a longing that can survive only in her inner world. For beyond the known streets of her childhood, beyond the brawls in fishermen’s taverns, beyond the domestic travails and routine calls that fill her working days, Grace is haunted by the shadowy presence of a rapist. As she pursues this elusive figure, she will find herself far from the streets of her Ballard neighborhood. In Lowen Clausen’s newest novel, Third & Forever, Grace Stevens delves into the dark world of sexual compulsion and begins a search that strips away layers of conformity, pretense, and expectation so that she must see herself and her society anew. Circling from her neighborhood beat to the University of Washington campus and on to steamy Baton Rouge and back, she will discover that some athletic stars are given special protections—especially those playing big-time college football—the money-makers for their universities’ athletic machines. Despite a series of near misses, Grace moves steadily toward unmasking a dangerous stalker. And along the way she finds her own identity and purpose transformed by her encounter with her family’s black roots in the South.

Silo Press

From a remote corner of a vanishing American landscape, a bereaved father begins a journey down the river that has been all but inseparable from his life. At the river’s origin the shallow stream courses through the ranch where he was born. It is where he fell in love the first time and where the ashes of his son have been poured. “Now, before it’s too late, before I lose the will to do anything, I am leaving this land to follow the sticks I dropped into the river so long ago.” But this man’s passage along the interlacing rivers to the ocean will not be simple or disconnected from the life he leaves behind. His estranged son’s last angry words echo in his memory, and despite moments of pure concentration on the waters ahead, the solitary voyager finds the past seeping into his thoughts and dreams. In River, novelist Lowen Clausen has created a story of deep beauty and seriousness, in which he weaves together the complex threads of one man’s search for wholeness. Clausen’s rich, elegiac prose becomes its own landscape and river, transporting the reader on a journey through despair and doubt into discovery.

Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America: Volume 1, Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate like Mammals

Cambridge University Press

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Second Watch

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Second Watch

Third & Forever

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