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Do you like a good mystery?!!!

Porcupine City is a peaceful little town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The residents enjoy a quiet life far removed from the comings and goings of larger cities. The kind of town where everyone knows everyone else and good-natured gossip is a prime source of entertainment. It’s certainly the last place anyone would think of using as the backdrop for a high-tech, high-thrill treasure hunt.

Until the first gruesome clue is found: a headless corpse wrapped in plastic.

Deputy Steve Martinez--Lakota Indian by birth, Porcupine City native by association--has investigated many crimes, but none more surprising than the case before him now. When clues at the first crime scene lead to the discovery of a second headless corpse, it becomes clear to Steve that it’s someone’s twisted idea of a game. And these events couldn’t come at worse time: the election for county sheriff is fast approaching and the sudden rash of corpses is just the sort of ammunition Steve’s opponent is all too eager to use against him. Luckily Steve’s longtime love, beautiful redhead Ginny Fitzgerald, is still by his side, but even that relationship becomes strained as Steve searches for a way to connect with her foster son, Tommy.

This is Steve’s toughest investigation yet--one that spreads from secretive internet chatrooms into Chicago’s seedy underbelly and even takes to the air above Porcupine City. It will take all of Deputy Martinez's patience and cunning to catch a sociopath who’s after the next forbidden rush. It might also force him to face some unpleasant truths about the locals he has sworn to protect.

“Deputy Stephen Martinez, who makes an appealing laid-back philosopher-detective, gets on the case in Kisor's delightful encore to Season's Revenge . . . . Sharp-witted dialogue, rustic ambience and intriguing, character-driven tangents will keep readers turning the pages.”--Publisher's Weekly
 
“Strong characters, warm confident prose.”--Kirkus Reviews
 
“Beautiful, rural Michigan is the backdrop for this captivating mystery, which boasts an eminently likeable protagonist.  Kisor ... has a lyrical writing style that's perfect for this well-constructed novel.” --Romantic Times BOOKReviews

Item Special Note

Evanston resident and Pulitizer Prize nominee Henry Kisor has autographed and donated a total of 3 hard copies of this thriller to benefit the EPL Auction!  (NOTE:  Each signed copy of Cache of Corpses is being auctioned as a separate item)

He is the retired book editor of the Chicago Sun-Times as well as the author of three nonfiction books and three mystery novels.  He is also the co-author of one children's book.

He is the author of a series of mystery novels set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Season's Revenge (2003), A Venture into Murder (2005) and Cache of Corpses (2007).  His nonfiction works are What's That Pig Outdoors?: A Memoir of Deafness (1990), Zephyr: Tracking a Dream Across America (1994) and Flight of the Gin Fizz: Midlife at 4,500 Feet (1997).

 His reviews and articles have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and on MSNBC.com. Between 1977 and 1982 he was an adjunct instructor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.  From 1983 to 1986 he wrote a weekly syndicated column on personal computers that appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Orlando Sentinel, Seattle Times and other newspapers.

He was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1981. The Friends of Literature awarded him the first James Friend Memorial Critic Award in 1988 and the Chicago Foundation for Literature Award for Nonfiction in 1991 for What's That Pig Outdoors? In 2001 he was inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame.