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The Richard Carter Novels #9
Cold Fury
This ninth novel by AR Simmons sees things get personal for Deputy Richard Carter. Cold Fury is a contemporary crime mystery involving drugs and other kinds of craziness, something the hills have in abundance.
Death by exposure. A frozen man found nude in an Ozark vacation cabin? It seems that the only crime here is that of abandoning a corpse.
Ron Guidry gets "the cold case" when Richard Carter is given a politically sensitive assignment. Guidry chafes at the restraints placed on his investigation, argues with the boss, and takes vacation time. When he fails to return, Richard follows his "cold trail" and runs smack into a DEA narc who knows more than he is saying.
A second "popsicle" turns up in Blue Creek, confirming that the exposure death was a homicide.
Is Richard Carter being helped by the DEA agent? Managed? Or played?
Try Road Shrines (a stand-alone novel) if you enjoy: Mystery Suspense Series, Crime Thrillers, Police Procedurals, or Detective Series with just a bit of classical mythology.
Death by exposure. A frozen man found nude in an Ozark vacation cabin? It seems that the only crime here is that of abandoning a corpse.
Ron Guidry gets "the cold case" when Richard Carter is given a politically sensitive assignment. Guidry chafes at the restraints placed on his investigation, argues with the boss, and takes vacation time. When he fails to return, Richard follows his "cold trail" and runs smack into a DEA narc who knows more than he is saying.
A second "popsicle" turns up in Blue Creek, confirming that the exposure death was a homicide.
Is Richard Carter being helped by the DEA agent? Managed? Or played?
Try Road Shrines (a stand-alone novel) if you enjoy: Mystery Suspense Series, Crime Thrillers, Police Procedurals, or Detective Series with just a bit of classical mythology.
400 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 30, 2014
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About the author
A.R. Simmons
16 books59 followersAR Simmons grew up in the Missouri Ozarks. He walked a gravel road to a rural school evocative of “Walton’s Mountain.” His parents did factory work to buy things not provided by their subsistence farm which was passed down from his grandfather who cleared the land from the native forest. He and his wife (beta reader, illustrator, and muse) still live on that farm. So his roots run deep in the Ozark soil. Using the culture, language, and mores of this "Bible Belt" region, he writes culturally immersive stories of obsession set amidst the small-town and rural life that he knows and loves.
He began writing seriously with a suspense novel which he serialized around the turn of the millennium on his website www.bluecreeknovels. It took until 2013 for him to publish the first Richard Carter novel (Bonne Femme) as an e-book. The series now includes fourteen mystery/suspense stand-alone stories that also chronicle Richard’s life with each story spaced about a year apart. This required a year-by-year update to the technology available to the characters because time marches on.
PS. Simmons is a rather common drudge, so once considered changing his nom-de-plume to “Bess Sellers.”
He began writing seriously with a suspense novel which he serialized around the turn of the millennium on his website www.bluecreeknovels. It took until 2013 for him to publish the first Richard Carter novel (Bonne Femme) as an e-book. The series now includes fourteen mystery/suspense stand-alone stories that also chronicle Richard’s life with each story spaced about a year apart. This required a year-by-year update to the technology available to the characters because time marches on.
PS. Simmons is a rather common drudge, so once considered changing his nom-de-plume to “Bess Sellers.”
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