Amateur Sleuth Searches for Redemption and Cocaine in Oregon and Alaska in New Mystery
Penman Productions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thomas Martindale returns to the setting of his debut as an amateur sleuth, the Yaquina Head lighthouse on the Oregon Coast, in Yaquina White, the newest mystery in a series by Ron Lovell. The “white” of the title stands for cocaine. His career in tatters, Martindale becomes involved by accident with a drug gang distributing the lethal substance which forces him to flee the state. With the help of a friend in the Coast Guard, he joins a media junket to the Arctic where he signs on as a researcher for a world famous photographer.
After leaving the tour, the photographer, his assistant, and Tom explore Big Diomede on the Russian side and are detained by border guards. After that narrow escape, they are picked up by the crew of a large freighter carrying a mysterious cargo over the ice-free North Pole to an unknown U.S. port. He returns to Oregon only to find that the drug kingpin is still after him. Aided by his friend from previous adventures, Special Ops Major Paul Bickford, Tom meets the drug dealer for a final, deadly encounter at the Yaquina Head lighthouse, from which only one of them will walk away.
Yaquina White is the latest of the Thomas Martindale Mysteries by Lovell, a retired Oregon State University journalism professor and former magazine journalist. In the books, Lovell offers readers something more than the standard “who-dun-it.” He delves into campus subjects like the search for a college president, recruiting of new students, and a grade inflation scandal involving football players. Other books weave together everything from global warming and saving whales to the French Resistance in World War II. Previous books in the series are Murder at Yaquina Head; Dead Whales Tell No Tales; Lights, Camera, Murder; Murder Below Zero; Searching for Murder; and Descent Into Madness.
All of the books in the series, trade paperbacks priced at $15, can be ordered from Partners/West or Penman Productions. Lovell is available for readings, signings, participation on panels, and conducting workshops.
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