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Blood Moon
Rancho Esquon was a quiet little community in Northern California’s vast Sacramento Valley. With its green neon palm, the Oasis Diner attracted tired truckers passing through on the long stretch of highway. The downtown movie theater was open only on Friday and Saturday nights to show films in Spanish to the migrant farmworkers. And a small airstrip on the outskirts of town serviced crop dusters and private pilots who gave flying lessons to bored ranchers’ wives.
Then one blustery afternoon Michael Morrissey’s Cessna Skyhawk plummeted to the runway in a blaze of sparks, and Rancho Esquon would never be the same. Donny Cannon knew Morrissey wasn’t going to make it when he pulled him out of the wreckage. But it wasn’t the crash that took his best friend’s life – Morrissey had been shot.
Now Cannon is hell-bent to find out who killed him and why. Together with Michael’s sister – a sultry dark-eyed beauty who wants to find the answers for quite a different reason – Cannon follows a twisting trail that leads him to the murky drug underworld that lurks beneath the valley’s pastoral surface.
Soon the tranquility of Rancho Esquon is shattered by corruption, violence and brutal murder … and Donny Cannon, always a loner, is more alone than ever as he fights to save his own life.
A taut, lean, sexy thriller, “Blood Moon” marks the debut of an exciting new talent in the suspense genre.
Then one blustery afternoon Michael Morrissey’s Cessna Skyhawk plummeted to the runway in a blaze of sparks, and Rancho Esquon would never be the same. Donny Cannon knew Morrissey wasn’t going to make it when he pulled him out of the wreckage. But it wasn’t the crash that took his best friend’s life – Morrissey had been shot.
Now Cannon is hell-bent to find out who killed him and why. Together with Michael’s sister – a sultry dark-eyed beauty who wants to find the answers for quite a different reason – Cannon follows a twisting trail that leads him to the murky drug underworld that lurks beneath the valley’s pastoral surface.
Soon the tranquility of Rancho Esquon is shattered by corruption, violence and brutal murder … and Donny Cannon, always a loner, is more alone than ever as he fights to save his own life.
A taut, lean, sexy thriller, “Blood Moon” marks the debut of an exciting new talent in the suspense genre.
208 pages, Hardcover
First published August 18, 1987
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About the author
K. Patrick Conner
6 books5 followersA sixth-generation Californian, K. Patrick Conner grew up in the Central Valley, graduating from Mt. Whitney High School in Visalia in 1970. He attended Chico State University, receiving his Bachelor’s degree in English in 1976 and his Master’s degree in English in 1977. In 1978, he was a winner of the San Francisco Foundation's Joseph Henry Jackson award.
After working for the Chico News & Review and the Whole Earth Review, Conner was hired by the San Francisco Chronicle in 1987. He worked at the newspaper for more than twenty years, including five years as City Editor. He was Assistant Managing Editor for News when he left the paper in 2009.
He is the author of four prior books: the novels “Blood Moon,” published by Doubleday in 1987, and “Kingdom Road, published by Donald Fine, Inc. in 1991 and subsequently brought out as a paperback by Signet in 1992, "Dying Words," published by NACL Press in 2012, and “Horace Bristol: An American View,” a biography of one of the first photographers to work for LIFE magazine, published by Chronicle Books in 1996. His most recent novel, "Westbound," was published on March 1, 2022.
He currently lives on San Francisco’s Russian Hill with his wife, Christine Cuccia, and their cats.
After working for the Chico News & Review and the Whole Earth Review, Conner was hired by the San Francisco Chronicle in 1987. He worked at the newspaper for more than twenty years, including five years as City Editor. He was Assistant Managing Editor for News when he left the paper in 2009.
He is the author of four prior books: the novels “Blood Moon,” published by Doubleday in 1987, and “Kingdom Road, published by Donald Fine, Inc. in 1991 and subsequently brought out as a paperback by Signet in 1992, "Dying Words," published by NACL Press in 2012, and “Horace Bristol: An American View,” a biography of one of the first photographers to work for LIFE magazine, published by Chronicle Books in 1996. His most recent novel, "Westbound," was published on March 1, 2022.
He currently lives on San Francisco’s Russian Hill with his wife, Christine Cuccia, and their cats.
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