Bøger af Christopher Valen

During the annual St. Paul Winter Carnival, Homicide Detective John Santana and his rookie partner, Gabriel Cruz, investigate a mysterious case of human remains unearthed after a snowstorm. As they delve deeper into the investigation, and more bones are unearthed, they uncover a web of secrets and lies involving Afghani refugees and a former Army vet, Tara Easton, found dead in her bathtub from an apparent suicide. When a government agent appears at the scene, the detectives realize they are facing something much bigger and more dangerous than they anticipated. Santana and Cruz must confront their own personal traumas while trying to uncover who put the bones in Como Park and what really happened to Tara Easton before it's too late.

Christopher Valen, award-winning author of the John Santana Mystery Series, presents a moving stand-alone novel. In a narrative that moves seamlessly between the present and the past, All The Fields is a powerful tale of love, loss, and redemption. Set in Virginia and Minnesota, the novel tells the story of Michael Collins, a professional baseball player who, out of love for a beautiful but tormented woman, makes a decision that shatters his relationship with his father and forever changes the course of his life. It is the story of one young man's struggle to find his place in the world and, by unlocking the past, to overcome betrayal and the darkest of personal demons.

The death of a DEA agent pulls Santana off the cold case investigation of a young woman's murder and into the dark and lethal world of drug smuggling and sex-trafficking. Soon, he suspects there is a link between the two cases and a group of wealthy and highly influential men belonging to a secretive club. Working with the DEA agent's partner and hunted by a deadly sicario searching for the cartel's missing half-million dollars and the young woman who stole it, Santana is in a race against time to solve two murders and save the young woman's life.