A Lonesome Blood-Red Sun - (The Bone Detective, a Dave Beckett Novel) by David Putnam (Paperback)

About the Book

Dave Beckett, a homicide detective who doesn't color within the lines, is regulated to the lowest job in the division and is known by his peers as The Bone Dick.

Book Synopsis

Dave Beckett, a homicide detective who doesn't color within the lines, is regulated to the lowest job in the division and is known by his peers as The Bone Dick. He handles all "bag of bone" cases found in San Bernardino County's twenty thousand square miles, at present, count 256 pending unsolved. It's a boring, mundane job...until it isn't. In A Lonesome Blood-red Sun, Beckett is called to a house far out in the desert where a dog has brought a bone to the back door. Beckett investigates and discovers the victim, two years dead, is someone he knows. Beckett, with his usual verve and colorful methods, tracks the killer. The trail leads through a warren of dead ends until he discovers a most unlikely suspect hiding in plain sight.

A Lonesome Blood-red Sun is fiction melded with true-life incidents that makes for a non-stop thriller of the first order.

Review Quotes

"A cop's life, whether a rookie or a seasoned detective, is jammed with encounters that are often routine, sometimes disturbing, and all too often life-threateningly dangerous, a grind that takes its toll on personal relationships. A FEARSOME MIDNIGHT BLACK pulls back the curtain and takes the reader into that world with in-your-face clarity." - DP Lyle, award-winning author of the Jake Longly and Cain/Harper thriller series

"In this lean, fast-moving cop-novel, you're riding shotgun as Dave Beckett goes from a raw, idealistic young newbie deputy to a cynical, world-weary veteran homicide detective...in a compelling case that spans a decade. You can't fake the realism that underscores every word and scene in this book. Want to know what it's like to be a trainee deputy on patrol in 1979? Then read this book. You will live it...right alongside Dave Beckett, who discovers what it truly means to wear, and embody, the badge. He craves high adventure but discovers the grit, heart-ache and horror of the streets instead. Joseph Wambaugh said you don't work the job, the job works you...and Beckett makes the hard discovery himself, and you're there with him...every grueling step of the way. You may not have graduated from the sheriff's academy, or patrolled a beat in a squad car, but you'll believe you have after riding the mean streets of San Bernardino County with Dave Beckett." - Lee Goldberg, bestselling author of the Eve Ronin series

"Nobody writes cop stories like David Putnam! He lived the job. Read A FEARSOME MOONLIGHT BLACK and so will you." - Matt Coyle, author of the bestselling Rick Cahill Crime stories