They say dead men don't talk.
Lafe Doyle thinks they do.
If you know the language.
Private investigator Lafayette Doyle has worked some tough cases over the years, but this one is striking closer to home than most.
Lafe is a good detective, and an honest man. But he has a dark past, ties to a mob boss named Donnie Moon, and a debt he needs to repay. That debt comes due when local gangsters start turning up dead in unusual circumstances. It seems someone is out to settle some old scores, and the victims are former criminals who share connection with Moon, and to a crime committed more than a decade before. A crime Lafe himself was involved in.
Moon wants Lafe to find out who is doing the killing, and he wants it done quietly, without police involvement. But the more he digs, the deeper, more complex, and deadly the case becomes. It takes an even more alarming turn when Lafe discovers he's next on the list for a killer's revenge.
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Michael Zimmer is the author of 21 novels. His work has been praised by Library Journal, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, the Historical Novel Society, and others. City of Rocks (Five Star, 2012) was chosen by Booklist as one of the top ten Western novels of 2012. The Poacher's Daughter (Five Star, 2014) received a starred Booklist review, and was selected winner of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum's prestigious Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel (2015); both were finalists for the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America, and his short story, The Medicine Robe, won the Spur Award in 2019. Among his Westerns is the seven-volume American Legends Collection series.
In addition to Westerns, Zimmer also writes Mysteries, including the Two-Bit Street Mystery series featuring 1940s private eye Lafayette "Lafe" Doyle.
Zimmer resides in Utah with his wife Vanessa and their two dogs.