Haunted Bones

by Thomas J. Morrow

This is the story of two city detectives trying to piece together a series of murders. The victims' bodies have been preserved and stuffed into the walls of a seaside resort in Southern California. Oceanside, California is one of the Golden State s more pleasant beachfront communities. With a population of nearly 170,000, it s larger than most U.S. state capital cities. Its residents enjoy mild year-round weather with the temperatures averaging in the sixties, seldom varying more than twenty degrees either way. The city is also home to the historic Spanish Mission San Luis Rey. Built in 1798, it s the largest of the twenty-one that are scattered along the California coastline. The string of missions are connected by the famed Spanish El Camino Real otherwise known as The Royal Road. Danny Saenz and Joe Stein are hard-working homicide detectives for the Oceanside Police Department. In recent years, the OPD has been considered one of California s best law enforcement agencies. But that hasn t always been the case. During the late 1960s and into the seventies, local police had their hands full keeping the peace on downtown city streets. It was a time when neighboring Camp Pendleton was turning out as many troops as they could to meet the never-ending quotas required for the Vietnam War. Many of the young recruits had less-than stellar some criminal, others were high school dropouts.

260 pages, Paperback

Published September 27, 2013