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A Manny Rivera Mystery
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by Rich Curtin
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A member of "The Keepers of Order," an armed militia determined to hunt down the
culprits who have been poaching bighorn sheep, is shot while patrolling one of
the remotest parts of Utah's rugged backcountry. In pursuit of the shooter,
Deputy Sheriff Manny Rivera stumbles upon another crime linked to the activities
of a Ute medicine man who roamed those same lands in the early 1700s. With the
help of a smart, young anthropologist, Rivera plunges into the past to unravel a
sequence of bizarre events underlying a shocking murder. In the end, he's once
again forced to choose between enforcing the letter of the law and serving the
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COYOTE'S
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A Manny Rivera Mystery
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by Rich Curtin
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Matthew and Wilma Mason, a married couple from San
Francisco on a driving tour of southwest national parks, are found shot to death
in the remote and rugged backcountry of southeast Utah. A revolver clutched in
Matthew's hand suggests a murder-suicide, but Deputy Sheriff Manny Rivera thinks
otherwise. In his mind, there are too many unanswered questions. Why had the
Masons, at age 68, detoured from the planned vacation route shown on their map?
Why had they left the comfort of paved roads for rough, gravel back roads that
led to nowhere in particular? Why had they driven to the place where they were
found, next to an abandoned grass airstrip? And most peculiar of all, why were
they dressed like hippies from the 1960s?
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FINAL
ARRANGEMENTS |
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A Manny Rivera Mystery
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by Rich Curtin
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Iggy Webb, a Moab rockhound who makes his living
finding beautiful rocks in the Utah backcountry and selling them to tourists, is
found shot to death in the modest motorhome where he lives. Deputy Sheriff Manny
Rivera is assigned the case. The only immediate clue is a crumpled piece of
notepaper in Iggy's wastebasket which has some figures written on it. Finding a
motive for the killing at first seems impossible, but as Rivera peels back the
layers of the case, he discovers a shocking conspiracy unlike anything he's
encountered in his professional career. His investigation uncovers tentacles
leading to the most unlikely places and motives driven by the darkest of man's
imperfections.
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CAST
A
COLD
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A Manny Rivera Mystery
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by Rich Curtin
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RUSTY RANDALL, a handsome young man following his
dream of authoring an important work of history, sets out to uncover and record
the historical past of the Whitmire Ranch since its founding in 1890. Having
once served as a refuge for outlaws on the run in the remote backcountry of the
Utah-Colorado border, the ranch and its early history make the project intensely
interesting for Rusty who's motivated to work hard every day. Four months into
his research, his body is found in a remote part of the LaSal Mountains, a small
caliber bullet lodged in his brain. Were there activities going on at the ranch
that Rusty would have been better off not digging into? Or was his murder
related to something else altogether? Deputy Sheriff Manny Rivera is assigned
the case and sets out to learn the motive for the killing, and through that,
identify the perpetrator.
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