Phoenix Cold Case – serie

Cold cases haunt the present in the desert city of Phoenix, Arizona. A PHOENIX COLD CASE: David Mapstone has returned to Phoenix, Arizona, the desert city he left behind a lifetime ago. The ex-cop, ex-history professor is working the police dept''s cold case desk, unearthing long-buried secrets. And he''s good at it: as an ex-historian Mapstone knows the past is never past, as an ex-cop he knows he can''t trust anybody... CONCRETE DESERT: In 1959 a young woman took a late-night cab home and disappeared. Two weeks later, she was found naked, strangled in the Harquahala desert. Mapstone links her death to four other girls similarly strangled, stripped and dumped. Were these deaths the work of a serial killer?Mapstone''s research is interrupted by his reacquaintance with an old flame. Back then, it ended badly, but now she wants him to find her sister who has disappeared. Initially, Mapstone has more leads on the 40-year-old murders than the missing sister. Until she''s found in the desert. Stripped. And strangled.

A PHOENIX COLD CASE: David Mapstone has returned to Phoenix, Arizona, the desert city he left behind a lifetime ago. The ex-cop, ex-history professor is working the police dept''s cold case desk, unearthing long-buried secrets. And he''s good at it: as an ex-historian Mapstone knows the past is never past, as an ex-cop he knows he can''t trust anybody... CAMELBACK FALLS: When his friend Peralta, newly sworn in as sheriff, is shot by a sniper, Mapstone can''t keep a cool, academic distance. And he''d better not: while Peralta lies comatose in the hospital, Mapstone is appointed acting sheriff. As he struggles to make sense of this unwanted promotion, Mapstone must unravel the meaning of a cryptic note scrawled by Peralta before the shooting. The note simply reads: Camelback Falls. To decipher the message, Mapstone will have to confront his own past and the deadly consequences of a small-town shoot-out in 1979 that left he and Peralta standing over four dead bodies. For Mapstone, the past has never been so deadly.

A PHOENIX COLD CASE: David Mapstone has returned to Phoenix, Arizona, the desert city he left behind a lifetime ago. The ex-cop, ex-history professor is working the police dept''s cold case desk, unearthing long-buried secrets. And he''s good at it: as an ex-historian Mapstone knows the past is never past, as an ex-cop he knows he can''t trust anybody... Half a century after the unsolved murder of an FBI agent, the victim''s missing badge is found sewn inside the jacket of a dead transient. Forced into partnership with a rival cold-case expert and stonewalled by the FBI about the details of the case, David Mapstone''s problems have just begun: following the bust of a major international crime syndicate, the Russian mafiya are also after his blood. Following the trail through the most forlorn parts of Phoenix and the desolate south Arizonan desert, Mapstone''s got the brains, he''s got the leads, but if he wants to bring justice to a fifty-year-old crime, he''s going to have to stay alive long enough to do it.

A PHOENIX COLD CASE: David Mapstone has returned to Phoenix, Arizona, the desert city he left behind a lifetime ago. The ex-cop, ex-history professor is working the police dept''s cold case desk, unearthing long-buried secrets. And he''s good at it: as an ex-historian Mapstone knows the past is never past, as an ex-cop he knows he can''t trust anybody... ARIZONA DREAMS: Mapstone has received a letter confessing to a forty-year-old murder and providing directions to the body, but things are never what they seem in Phoenix. Buried beneath a mound of bowling-ball-sized rocks in the desert west of Tonopah, there''s a body right where the letter said it would be – but it''s only weeks old, not years. Its not the only fresh body, either. As the death count rises, the clues keep pointing back to the same remote piece of desert and a real-estate development called Arizona Dreams. But Mapstone knows something sinister is fueling this increasingly dangerous case...

A PHOENIX COLD CASE: David Mapstone has returned to Phoenix, Arizona, the desert city he left behind a lifetime ago. The ex-cop, ex-history professor is working the police dept''s cold case desk, unearthing long-buried secrets. And he''s good at it: as an ex-historian Mapstone knows the past is never past, as an ex-cop he knows he can''t trust anybody... SOUTH PHOENIX RULES: Jax Delgado, a New York professor in Phoenix to research his next book has been tortured, murdered, his head severed and sent to his girlfriend. It shouldn''t be an assignment for Mapstone, but the girlfriend in question just happens to his sister-in-law, Robin. Delgado''s murder has all the hallmarks of drug cartel execution, and Mapstone fears Robin could be the next target. But is she as innocent as she claims? And why would a professor be targeted by a drug cartel? Mapstone''s investigation will compel him to cross the line into South Phoenix, a world that plays by a different set of rules: South Phoenix Rules.

A PHOENIX COLD CASE: David Mapstone has returned to Phoenix, Arizona, the desert city he left behind a lifetime ago. The ex-cop, ex-history professor is working the police dept''s cold case desk, unearthing long-buried secrets. And he''s good at it: as an ex-historian Mapstone knows the past is never past, as an ex-cop he knows he can''t trust anybody... CACTUS HEART: Phoenix, a city built on the bones of its past, has just given up one of her longest-kept secrets. Walled up in a tunnel beneath an abandoned warehouse, the skeletons of two four-year-old twins are discovered, the victims in a notorious kidnapping case from the 1940s. But what starts as a tying-up-loose-ends case for David Mapstone quickly becomes something far more sinister. As Mapstone delves further into the evidence, he discovers a complex web of secrets, lies, money and power. But with a very contemporary killer on the loose, he must untangle the truth – and fast – before they strike again...