KINGS RAPIDS
A Kurt Maxxon Mystery
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A sick husband was a new twist for me. “What’s wrong with your husband, ma’am?” “He’s got a brain tumor. Inoperable. Cancer. The noise from y’all makes him scream with pain.” “Damn,” I said. “What?” the woman demanded. “I said I’m sorry, ma’am.” “Chip’s really bad this morning,” she said. “Y’all better stop ‘em from racing. You owe Chip, Kurt Maxxon. Lord, he’s rooted for you all these years. Now he don’t know up from down most o’ the time. He used to love racing, the racket, all of it. Now it makes him scream. Y’all better keep it from happening.” “Damn.”
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Race driver Kurt Maxxon’s quiet life of racing stockcars and training his new puppy, Beau, is turned upside down after he finds well-known local driver Rusty Gallegar shot to death at the racetrack. Very quickly into the investigation, the police arrest Alisa Sharpe, Gallegar’s live-in mistress, who Gallegar kicked out of his life a week before the shooting. According to the police, Alisa lied about key items, and the evidence against her is compelling. Kurt’s friend Mutt Sparks adamantly maintains that Alisa is innocent, and asks Kurt to help her. Kurt visits Alisa in jail and agrees Sharpe is probably not the killer, then launches his own investigation to prove it. Kurt discovers Gallegar was preparing to sell his auto body shop and quietly leave town, apparently running away with a woman. Kurt also uncovers a string of women who traded sex with Gallegar for his silence to their husbands and insurance companies about auto wrecks they had. Secrets and intrigues turn up in every corner Kurt looks. Love, infidelity, jealousy, gossip, and revenge surround Kurt Maxxon as he analyzes information, using his unique logic and approach, to find out the answer to the question—Who killed Rusty Gallegar?
About the Author
Jim Overturf, an avid fan of auto racing, is a member of Sisters in Crime and the Mystery Writers of America. A lifelong writer, Jim is currently working on the third Kurt Maxxon mystery. An Alisa Sharpe series will debut in 2011. He and his wife reside in Lincoln, Nebraska.