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Lucas Stonecoat #3
Cold Edge
Houston police detective Lucas Stonecoat and psychiatrist Dr. Meredyth Sanger track a savage killer known as the Scalper, who is responsible for the brutal murders and mutilations of a number of the city's prostitutes. By the author of Double Edge. Original.
- GenresMystery
336 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 1, 2001
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Robert W. Walker
184 books75 followersAka Geoffrey Caine, Glenn Hale, Evan Kingsbury, Stephen Robertson
Master of suspense and bone-chilling terror, Robert W. Walker, BS and MS in English Education, Northwestern University, has penned 44 novels and has taught language and writing for over 25 years. Showing no signs of slowing down, he is currently juggling not one but three new series ideas, and has completed a film script and a TV treatment. Having grown up in Chicago and having been born in the shadow of the Shiloh battlefield, near Corinth, Mississippi, Walker has two writing traditions to uphold--the Windy City one and the Southern one--all of which makes him uniquely suited to write City for Ransom and its sequels, Shadows in White City and City of the Absent. His Dead On will be published in July 2009. Walker is currently working on a new romantic-suspense-historical-mainstream novel, titled Children of Salem. In 2003 and 2004 Walker saw an unprecedented seven novels released on the "unsuspecting public," as he puts it. Final Edge, Grave Instinct, and Absolute Instinct were published in 2004. City of the Absent debuted in 2008 from Avon. Walker lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
Master of suspense and bone-chilling terror, Robert W. Walker, BS and MS in English Education, Northwestern University, has penned 44 novels and has taught language and writing for over 25 years. Showing no signs of slowing down, he is currently juggling not one but three new series ideas, and has completed a film script and a TV treatment. Having grown up in Chicago and having been born in the shadow of the Shiloh battlefield, near Corinth, Mississippi, Walker has two writing traditions to uphold--the Windy City one and the Southern one--all of which makes him uniquely suited to write City for Ransom and its sequels, Shadows in White City and City of the Absent. His Dead On will be published in July 2009. Walker is currently working on a new romantic-suspense-historical-mainstream novel, titled Children of Salem. In 2003 and 2004 Walker saw an unprecedented seven novels released on the "unsuspecting public," as he puts it. Final Edge, Grave Instinct, and Absolute Instinct were published in 2004. City of the Absent debuted in 2008 from Avon. Walker lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
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August 14, 2019
it took awhile to get going in the story.. but once it got going it got good
November 2, 2020
Lucas Stonecoat was a detective and a Navajo Indian. He was what everyone called them.
A man living in a white mans world. He loved his job. He was investigator some murderers whom they called the Scalper and Cutthroat. They were running in some hard times trying to pin them down. Was it a copy cat or two men or just one doing all this horrible killing. One would cut their throats another would scalp them or cut off their head and hands. Women not expecting to have this happen to them. There was a shelter near them run by a psychiatrist for men who were in prison and served their time all mostly due to murder. Lucas father was dying so he went back to the reservation to be with him. it tells how the Navajo traditionally do for deaths of their people. The ending was a surprise to me , didnt see that happening.
A man living in a white mans world. He loved his job. He was investigator some murderers whom they called the Scalper and Cutthroat. They were running in some hard times trying to pin them down. Was it a copy cat or two men or just one doing all this horrible killing. One would cut their throats another would scalp them or cut off their head and hands. Women not expecting to have this happen to them. There was a shelter near them run by a psychiatrist for men who were in prison and served their time all mostly due to murder. Lucas father was dying so he went back to the reservation to be with him. it tells how the Navajo traditionally do for deaths of their people. The ending was a surprise to me , didnt see that happening.
April 14, 2016
This book is well-written, easy to follow, and the characters are believable. The author fits right up there with Patricia Cornwell or C.J. Box.
After I wrote my review, i read other reviews. As usual, I did not agree with those other readers. Perhaps I am not as discerning a reader as I thought myself to be. No matter. This is the first book of Walker's I have read, and I plan to look for the others.
After I wrote my review, i read other reviews. As usual, I did not agree with those other readers. Perhaps I am not as discerning a reader as I thought myself to be. No matter. This is the first book of Walker's I have read, and I plan to look for the others.
June 19, 2013
A serial killer run amok killing women as well as chopping off hands and/or heads, taking scalps, and other gruesome acts is the crimes to be solved by Lucas and his team of investigators. A suspense thriller that doesn't end, this is the first of Walker' s novels I have read.
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December 23, 2011I've been chatting with Rob a bit here and there on line, and found this at a yardsale today. It'll be my introduction to his work.
I'll be back...
I'll be back...
October 17, 2015
1/3 of the way in and still struggling to get into it. Left it on the plane for another passenger. Maybe they'll have better luck with it.
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