A hard-boiled historical detective novel set in Seattle in 1947, featuring WWII vet, Jake Rossiter, who wants to clean up the corruption in his home town, and his girl Friday, Miss Jenkins, who wants to be a P.I.

Rat City

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Colbert, Curt

Mystery

Rat City Publishing

Grace Vaccaro works as a mental health evaluator—it’s her job to determine when people need to be hospitalized. When a paranoid man she just released is found bludgeoned to death on the banks of the Snoqualmie River, Grace wonders if she should have done more to help him. When her neighbor is found dead in the same location, she suspects a connection. Grace’s search for answers leads her from a Seattle homeless encampment to the rainy forests of the Cascades. The results are never clear. A Mexican immigrant fears deportation and refuses to talk to the police. A Native American elder works to conceal the location of ancestral gravesites. And a pregnant woman Grace just evaluated is terrified. Are her statements delusional or does she have information leading to the murderer? As Grace comes closer to the truth, her quiet home is invaded and she is the next target. She must face the killer alone and learn how far she will go to protect herself and others.

Grave Disturbance: A Pacific Northwest Mystery

Crites, Martha

When Seattle Times reporter Ann Dexter scores an interview with Franco Albanese, rock star of the modern opera world, she is thrilled. Don Giovanni in art, Don Juan in life, this charismatic man easily charms all women he meets, including Ann. But when Franco is kidnapped and Ann is contacted by the kidnapper who wants her to publish the truth about Franco, she launches her own investigation into his past exploits. Ann interviews a cast of characters from Franco’s life including former lovers, a jealous husband and a young opera singer whose star is on the rise. Armed with new information and determined to rescue Franco, Ann must use her wits to deal with an adversary whose grasp on reality evaporates almost as quickly as Ann's strategies to escape. In a thrilling climax, Ann gets one chance to free the opera singer from his hellish imprisonment. Will she take it? Notes from Hell is a carefully crafted mystery of intrigue and suspense, packed with operatic drama and passion.

Notes from Hell: A Pacific Northwest Mystery (An Ann Dexter Mystery)

Bukey, Rachel

Seattle Times reporter Ann Dexter is always on the hunt for the big story-- the one that will catapult her from beat reporter to the Pulitzer Prize. When a wealthy widow jumps to her death from the city's suicide bridge, leaving all her money to a sketchy new age church and its resident psychic medium, Ann is on the case. Intent on exposing the church as a fraud, Ann signs up for a psychic workshop and finds herself inexplicably drawn to the very man she suspects. Eager for justice, Ann follows a trail of clues that lead from the board room of a software startup to a Mexican spa and retreat center. Ultimately Ann’s search for the truth brings her face to face with a twisted killer and challenges all of her beliefs about love and life and death.

Leap of Faith (An Ann Dexter Mystery)

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Rat City

Grave Disturbance: A Pacific Northwest Mystery

Notes from Hell: A Pacific Northwest Mystery (An Ann Dexter Mystery)

Leap of Faith (An Ann Dexter Mystery)