A public war between a governor and a theme park lights the fuse on a story of murder, hate groups, corruption, bigotry, and political espionage.
Lyle Deming finds a body in Nostalgia City's parking lot during an LGBTQ event. The ex-cop turned theme-park cab driver takes a breath and steps away from the bullet-punctured corpse. Was this a hate crime?
Arizona governor Rod Gudgel, running for reelection, calls it a random shooting. He mocks Nostalgia City theme park for its inclusiveness. He uses homophobic and racial slurs.
Kate Sorensen, the park's blonde 6' 2½" PR director and former college basketball star, calls out Gudgel's insensitivity and prejudice, and the governor strikes back. He challenges the safety of the park's rides, threatening to impose state control to shutter the park.
When Nostalgia City employees demonstrating at a Gudgel campaign office are killed and injured Kate joins Lyle in a mad scramble to find the murderers and shut up or shut down the governor. Politics might impede law enforcement's investigation, but Lyle uses his own style, hitting blind alleys until he runs afoul of a local, armed hate group.
At the same time, Kate digs into the governor's past, unearthing an impossible trail of malfeasance and enraging Gudgel allies. When she dons a disguise to infiltrate the governor's inner circle, state guardsmen put her in peril. The governor seems to have armed supporters everywhere.
With Lyle's wry humor and Kate's unflappability, the story moves quickly as puzzles and subplots multiply and loop together threatening the park, their relationship, and their lives.
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RECOMMENDED: Death in Nostalgia City, the first book in the series, is recommended by the America Library Association.
A public war between a governor and a theme park lights the fuse on a story of murder, hate groups, corruption, bigotry, and political espionage.
Lyle Deming finds a body in Nostalgia City's parking lot during an LGBTQ event. The ex-cop turned theme-park cab driver takes a breath and steps away from the bullet-punctured corpse. Was this a hate crime?
Arizona governor Rod Gudgel, running for reelection, calls it a random shooting. He mocks Nostalgia City theme park for its inclusiveness. He uses homophobic and racial slurs.
Kate Sorensen, the park's blonde 6' 2½" PR director and former college basketball star, calls out Gudgel's insensitivity and prejudice, and the governor strikes back. He challenges the safety of the park's rides, threatening to impose state control to shutter the park.
When Nostalgia City employees demonstrating at a Gudgel campaign office are killed and injured Kate joins Lyle in a mad scramble to find the murderers and shut up or shut down the governor. Politics might impede law enforcement's investigation, but Lyle uses his own style, hitting blind alleys until he runs afoul of a local, armed hate group.
At the same time, Kate digs into the governor's past, unearthing an impossible trail of malfeasance and enraging Gudgel allies. When she dons a disguise to infiltrate the governor's inner circle, state guardsmen put her in peril. The governor seems to have armed supporters everywhere.
With Lyle's wry humor and Kate's unflappability, the story moves quickly as puzzles and subplots multiply and loop together threatening the park, their relationship, and their lives.
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RECOMMENDED: Death in Nostalgia City, the first book in the series, is recommended by the America Library Association.
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940180732774 |
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| Publisher: | Mark S. Bacon |
| Publication date: | 03/13/2025 |
| Series: | Nostalgia City Mysteries |
| Sold by: | Draft2Digital |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 2 MB |
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