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After Cincinnati detective Will Borders has a spinal tumor removed, he walks with difficulty and lives with pain, regretting not being the man he once was, particularly after he's taken off homicide and made public information officer. But things change when his PIO predecessor, Kristen Gruber, an accomplished officer renowned as star of a local reality-TV show, is brutally murdered and sexually mutilated, and Borders is made lead detective on the case. Then two nursing students from nearby Oxford, Ohio, are murdered in the same fashion, and the serial killer starts targeting Borders and, indirectly, Cheryl Beth Wilson, nursing instructor of the victims with whom Borders reconnected after they met during his hospitalization. Borders pursues the killler even after being taken off the case for personal reasons, as his relationship blossoms with Wilson, and danger to both increases. Full of praise for its Cincinnati locale (in marked contrast to the author's view of South Phoenix, the setting of his David Mapstone series), this sequel (to The Pain Nurse, 2009) confirms that the Will Borders novels have all the makings of a fine series. --Booklist about Powers of Arrest <br> In Talton's excellent second Cincinnati Casebook mystery (after 2009's Pain Nurse), Cincinnati homicide detective Will Borders commits himself totally to solving the gory murder of a glamorous local policewoman, despite being all too conscious of his physical limitations after undergoing spinal surgery. Meanwhile, in nearby Oxford, Ohio, pain nurse Cheryl Beth Wilson, who treated Will in the previous book, begins investigating after two of her students are butchered and a third is briefly the main suspect. The crimes reunite Will and Cheryl Beth, but recognition of their loneliness and decency lets them become uncertain but brave lovers--while the sadistic killer watches them and boasts about creating clever deathscapes. The Ohio local color lends depth, and the threat of extreme violence c

Mapstone's seventh outing (after South Phoenix Rules, 2010) features tight prose and plotting and a pair of complex and fallible protagonists whose character development continues in a series that just keeps getting better. --Booklist starred review The partnership of secretive, pensive Peralta and anguished, impetuous Mapstone (South Phoenix Rules, 2010, etc.) is intriguing, their love lives less so. But NRA aficionados will go nuts. --Kirkus Reviews The journey is thoroughly satisfying. --Publishers Weekly

Mapstone's seventh outing (after South Phoenix Rules, 2010) features tight prose and plotting and a pair of complex and fallible protagonists whose character development continues in a series that just keeps getting better. --Booklist starred review<br><br> The partnership of secretive, pensive Peralta and anguished, impetuous Mapstone (South Phoenix Rules, 2010, etc.) is intriguing, their love lives less so. But NRA aficionados will go nuts. --Kirkus Reviews

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Jon Talton is a fourth-generation Arizonan, the author of ten novels, and a former columnist for the Arizona Republic. Talton now lives in Seattle, where he is the economics columnist for the Seattle Times and writes the blog Rogue Columnist.

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