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Raven's Ridge, The Max Blake Mysteries

An American detective in Ireland becomes entangled in international intrigue: “Excellent” (Peter Eichstaedt, award winning author of Borderland).

Hard-boiled private detective and former muckraking journalist Max Blake, along with his fearless fiancée Caeli Brown, are back in action in their newly adopted Irish homeland. A favor to a new friend who works with the Irish police brings them out of retirement to solve a series of thefts at Bunratty Castle and Folk Park, which cater to the tourist crowd. But their first encounter with the thief is merely a dangerous springboard for what’s truly going on in their little patch of the Emerald Isle.

Before long, they’re being followed, accosted, threatened, and then shot at when a mysterious woman shakes loose from her shopping cart and produces a 9mm pistol—all to keep a global plot under wraps while the countdown to true mayhem begins. Tick tick tick . . .

William Florence

William Florence is the author of the Max Blake Mysteries series, which currently features: Raptor’s Ridge, Misery Ridge, Faraway Ridge, Snowfall Ridge, and Emerald Ridge, and Melia Ridge. A former reporter, editor, and college professor, he worked at newspapers in Michigan, Washington, DC, South Dakota, Indiana, and Oregon for twenty-five years and for twenty-two years as a journalism and writing instructor at a community college.

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