Cast in Stone - Softcover

Ford, G.M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380727625 ISBN 13: 9780380727629

Publisher: Harper, 1997

Synopsis

In the wild days of Leo Waterman's youth, Henry "Heck" Sundstrom was a god. But things haven't been going great lately for the p.i.'s burly ex-hero. First came the honeymoon boating accident that killed Heck's son and new daughter-in-law, Allison. And now the big man himself is dying--struck down by a runaway truck at an ungodly hour in a section of Seattle where no decent citizen should be caught dead.

But Waterman's not so sure Allison went down with the ship. And if his motley, aging legmen, "the Boys," can gather the facts, perhaps he can prove it--following the lead to the Midwest and a missing million dollars. . .and maybe to a "black widow" who may be less "late" and more lethal than anyone ever suspected.

About this title

About the Author:

G.M. Ford is the author of six widely praised Frank Corso novels, Fury, Black River, A Blind Eye, Red Tide, No Man's Land, and Blown Away, as well as six highly acclaimed mysteries featuring Seattle private investigator Leo Waterman. A former creative writing teacher in western Washington, Ford lives in Oregon and is currently working on his next novel.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Years and years ago, stunning Marge Sundstrom broke up the gaggle of hangers-on and friends her new husband Heck, commercial fisherman of the Lady Day, had gathered around him. Now it's Marge who needs the solace of friends, with her son Nicky killed in a boating accident, and his grief-stricken father hospitalized after getting hit by a car he didn't bother to avoid. The records list a third casualty--Nicky's bride, Allison Stark, who steamrolled Nicky the same way Marge had steamrolled Heck--but Marge doesn't believe for a minute that Allison's dead, and she wants Leo Waterman, one of the original Lady Day alumni, to hunt her down. And hunt he does, in an odyssey that takes him from his old haunts at Seattle's fisherman's wharf--where he picks up the trail of still another untidy disappearance--to the wilds of Wisconsin, from a bilked realtor to a football player-turned- televangelist, each with a shivery tale to tell about the chameleon last seen in the guise of Allison Stark Sundstrom. Together with his aging Irregulars, who like detecting more than anything but drinking, Leo follows each twist and bump in this fatal femme's life story till the predictable, but highly effective, finale. A stronger villain and tighter plotting lifts this search- and-destroyer over Leo's debut, Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca? (1995). -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0380727625
• ISBN 13: 9780380727629
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304