Read Series: David Mapstone Mystery
by Author Jon Talton
Dry Heat (2004)
The past is never past on the mean streets of Phoenix, especially when the mercury hits a hundred and it's only April. Half a century after the unsolved murder of an FBI agent, the missing badge is found on the body of a dead transient. The case seems a perfect fit for David Mapstone, history pro...
Arizona Dreams: A David Mapstone Mystery (2006)
This one ends on a very bitter note. Surprisingly so. David Mapstone is approached by a former student who discovered a letter written by her father before he died confessing to killing someone in 1966. The letter gives directions on how to find the body but doesn't say who the dead man was. But ...
Cactus Heart (2007)
In this prequel to the popular David Mapstone mysteries, author Jon Talton takes us back to 1999, when everything dot-com was making money, the Y2K bug was the greatest danger facing the world, and the good times seemed as if they would never end. It was a time before David and Lindsey were toget...
Concrete Desert (2001)
This is the first in the Phoenix Cold Case series, featuring Professor David Mapstone. Mapstone is an ex-cop, who left the police, and Phoenix, for a new life in California as an academic. Now divorced and refused tenure, he is back in the house he grew up in, wondering how he reached forty with ...
South Phoenix Rules (2010)
This is definitely not a love story for Phoenix. I used to read Jon Talton's columns when he wrote for the AZ republic (and his jabs at it in the book ring true!). This book exposes much of what is wrong with the city and brutally portrays the worst side of us. The sliding of the city parallels ...