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Murder in Rat Alley / Mark de Castrique.

by De Castrique, Mark.

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Poisoned Pen Press, 2020.

Interracial dating -- Fiction.

Private investigators -- North Carolina -- Fiction.

Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Fiction.

North Carolina -- Fiction.

De Castrique, Mark. Sam Blackman mysteries ; 7.

252 p. ; 22 cm.

"Iraq War veteran Sam Blackman with his prosthetic leg and his no-nonsense private eye partner Nakayla Robertson love their investigations which always carry a thread from the past - and they love each other. An interracial couple in the new South, the Asheville, NC, pair has surrounded themselves with a terrific support team including an unorthodox lawyer and a veteran cop. They deploy humor both to bind them together and to deflect insults. Plus, it helps deal with the tragedies their work uncovers. Such a tragedy interrupts a meeting between the PIs and the neighboring law office when a body is unearthed from the grounds of the nearby Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute. During the Cold War it monitored developing space programs. Today it plays a vital role gathering weather and climate data. The body has been in the ground a long time. Why would its discovery spark off a new murder in Asheville's mountain music scene, the victim found amid the garbage of dark, dank Rat Alley? She was the fiance of the man murdered long ago. But surely this case is more than a domestic drama playing out over time."--Publisher's description.

Mystery fiction.

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