Time Trial

by R.E. Derouin

Parkside, Pennsylvania police detective David Dean is recuperating from a gunshot wound in tranquil Ouray, Colorado. However, his peaceful convalescence is abruptly interrupted by five eccentric and unwanted guests, led by an obnoxious wealthy tycoon whose son and wife were murdered two years earlier. The group's interest in the settlement of Byrd Song above the ghost town of Sneffles catapults Dean and his stepfather Fred back a century in time where much detective work is needed to find the startling answers. Follow this mystery as it delves deeper and becomes more bizarre. The tale is set in present-day Ouray and Ridgway as well as the ghost towns that surround it in the jagged mountains of Ouray County in southwestern Colorado.

224 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1999

About the author

Raymond Derouin was born in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1937. He was an executive in the insurance industry before retiring after thirty years. He began writing stage plays, ultimately winning four national contests. In 1999 he introduced David Dean, a retired police detective. There are six mysteries in this series.

Crime Time, a stand-alone mystery, and Enough to Miss Christmas, a family love story were both released in 2013. Fridays, a fictional journal of a reclusive school teacher, was released in 2014.

Mr. Derouin and his wife of fifty years live in Mesa, Arizona where he is working on a new novel.