Hunting the Five Point Killer

by C. M. Wendelboe

Overview

On the tenth anniversary of a series of unsolved murders, the Five Point Killer is back for blood—and retired cop Arn Anderson could be the next investigator who gets too close to the truth.

Retired detective Arn Anderson never thought he'd be broke enough to take on a cold murder case. Or desperate enough to team up with a TV reporter. Or pathetic enough to go back to his rundown childhood home after he swore he'd left Cheyenne for good. But here he is, hunting a serial killer who also appears to have come out of retirement. On the anniversary of the Five Point Killer's crimes, Arn's only option is to survive the carnage of a murderer who may be too twisted—and too brilliant—to catch.

Praise:
"A slow-burning cold case with copious clues, conscientious detection, a high body count, periodic interruptions from the killer's viewpoint, and all the pages and pages of unraveling you'd expect from such a generously plotted mystery."—Kirkus Reviews

"A terrific debut...Wendelboe is a skilled writer who ratchets up the suspense.—Margaret Coel, New York Times bestselling author of Winter's Child

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781645990222
Publisher:	Encircle Publications, LLC
Publication date:	02/28/2020
Series:	Bitter Wind Mystery Series , #1
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	1,236,384
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.82(d)

About the Author

C. M. Wendelboe (Cheyenne, WY) is the author of the Spirit Road Mysteries (Penguin). During his thirty-eight-year career in law enforcement, he served successful stints as a sheriff’s deputy, police chief, policy adviser, and supervisor for several agencies. He was a patrol supervisor when he retired to pursue his true vocation as a fiction writer. 

www.SpiritRoadMysteries.com

Editorial Reviews

"A slow-burning cold case with copious clues, conscientious detection, a high body count, periodic interruptions from the killer's viewpoint, and all the pages and pages of unraveling you'd expect from such a generously plotted mystery."—Kirkus Reviews

"A terrific debut...Wendelboe is a skilled writer who ratchets up the suspense.—Margaret Coel, New York Times bestselling author of Winter's Child

From the Publisher

2017-07-17
The chronicler of FBI agent Manny Tanno (Death on the Greasy Grass, 2013, etc.) launches a new series that brings a retired Denver cop back to his roots, and a lot of other people's, in Cheyenne.Even though they date back 10 years, TV reporter Ana Maria Villarreal's station manager, DeAngelo Damos, thinks it would boost ratings if she did a special on the deaths of three Cheyenne police detectives less than a month apart. Everybody's always believed that Steve DeBoer died in a house fire he accidentally set when he fell asleep smoking, and Gaylord Fournier's death was a pretty obvious case of erotic autoasphyxiation. But Butch Spangler was shot by a gun that vanished from the death scene, and although Lt. Ned Oblanski's always suspected Frank Dull Knife, the ex-con who was sleeping with Hannah Spangler, he's never been able to find enough evidence to put him away. Enter Arn Anderson, formerly of Denver Homicide, who's returned to his hometown and signed on as a consultant to the TV station to reopen the case. You can imagine how that goes over with Oblanski and Acting Chief Johnny White. Anderson wastes no time allowing Ana Maria to talk her way into an investigation he'd sworn to keep her at arm's length from, acquiring an unlikely new sidekick, attracting a rash of anonymous demands to stop asking questions, getting bashed over the head, and rekindling his relationship with Butch's sister, Gloria Spangler, the former cheerleader he dated in high school. In between these distractions, he patiently zeroes in on the Five Point Killer—who killed two still-earlier victims—that all three of the dead cops had been trying desperately to identify in the weeks before they died. A slow-burning cold case with copious clues, conscientious detection, a high body count, periodic interruptions from the killer's viewpoint, and all the pages and pages of unraveling you'd expect from such a generously plotted mystery.

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