Bitter Wind

On the tenth anniversary of a series of unsolved murders, the Five Point Killer is back for blood―and retired cop Arn Anderson could be the next investigator who gets too close to the truth.Retired detective Arn Anderson never thought he'd be broke enough to take on a cold murder case. Or desperate enough to team up with a TV reporter. Or pathetic enough to go back to his rundown childhood home after he swore he'd left Cheyenne for good. But here he is, hunting a serial killer who also appears to have come out of retirement. On the anniversary of the Five Point Killer's crimes, Arn's only option is to survive the carnage of a murderer who may be too twisted―and too brilliant―to catch.

On the tenth anniversary of a series of unsolved murders, the Five Point Killer is back for blood―and retired cop Arn Anderson could be the next investigator who gets too close to the truth. Retired detective Arn Anderson never thought he'd be broke enough to take on a cold murder case. Or desperate enough to team up with a TV reporter. Or pathetic enough to go back to his rundown childhood home after he swore he'd left Cheyenne for good. But here he is, hunting a serial killer who also appears to have come out of retirement. On the anniversary of the Five Point Killer's crimes, Arn's only option is to survive the carnage of a murderer who may be too twisted―and too brilliant―to catch.

Retired Denver homicide detective Arn Anderson returned to his sleepy hometown in Wyoming just to restore his boyhood home-but he keeps getting caught up in chasing serial killers. An old friend of Arn's wants him to look into the suspicious deaths of her husband and brother, both dead of apparently natural causes in Veterans Administration hospitals several hundred miles apart. But both victims had almost identical injuries… and it seems they may not be the only ones. Arn doesn't think there's anything natural about the deaths, and once again, he enlists the help of his TV reporter friend, Ana Maria, who turns her attention to researching similar deaths at VA hospitals. Soon, Arn is looking at a pattern he can't ignore, and a growing list of suspects. It doesn't take them long to single out an anti-military cult leader who was seen protesting at the hospitals when the murder victims were found. Then, there's the paroled killer from their past, who showed up in Cheyenne right around the time the killing spree started. Between dodging their old nemesis and closing in on new ones, Arn and Ana Maria fear they might be next on the VA Slayer's hit list.

A lovely Filipino is found dead running in the city park. The body of a Russian beauty is discovered lifeless in a run-down rat trap of a motel. The corpse of a gorgeous Eastern European turns up in a park forty miles away. All strangled. All mail order brides. All connected. Somehow. Retired homicide detective Arn Anderson agrees to help his friend, reporter Ana Maria Villarreal, uncover the murderer of the women. Their investigation takes them into the seedier side of town: the rail yards of the Union Pacific; a shady international mail order bride business in Denver; motels Arn and Ana Maria would never be caught dead in.The suspects are many. An Iraq-War vet with serious PTSD knew and was suspected of being intimate with one of the victims. When Arn finds the veteran and confronts him, the Marine's violent anger erupts, injuring Arn and making his escape.A local businessman known to bring women into the country illegally on the pretense of marriage. After Arn confirmed with a shady international mail order bride firm that the businessman brought women into the country illegally, he shows up on Arn's suspect's radar. The man's wife hires Arn to spy on her husband and his illicit affair with a Russian mail order bride, but the hunted becomes the hunter and attacks Arn in his car, stealing Arn's camera and the incriminating evidence it holds.The killer of a wealthy business couple in Denver years before surfaces. He and his brother killed a local restaurateur's parents in a botched home invasion, but the killer's brother took his own life before being caught. Now, the man apparently has a grudge against the restaurant owner, whom he blames for his brother's death, and intends to seek revenge.Arn and Ana Maria's investigations clash with a police detective, who threatens to arrest the pair on several occasions for impeding the detective's own investigation. But they have bigger things to worry about. They better watch their backs-the killer knows they are getting close to uncovering him. Or her. And this killer will do what the killer has always done-whatever it takes to stay free to kill again.Which means Arn and Ana Maria might be the next victims…

A decades-old murder of a Denver prostitute comes back to haunt Arn Anderson, now a private investigator. As a rookie Denver Metro detective, he was assigned to the cold case and, like many before him, failed to solve the murder. When Denver cold-case detectives reopen the case, former witnesses begin to pop up dead, all with connections to the deceased streetwalker. Suspects abound in Denver and Cheyenne, including a man running for governor, and the daughter of the dead prostitute, now a police detective herself. Arn must keep himself on this side of the grass long enough to solve the murder of the streetwalker. And the dead witnesses.When Denver cold-case detectives reopen the investigation into the decades-old murder of a Denver prostitute, former witnesses begin to pop up dead. Suspects abound including a man running for governor, and the daughter of the dead prostitute, now a police detective herself. Arn Anderson must keep himself on this side of the grass long enough to solve the murder of the streetwalker. And the dead witnesses.A decades-old homicide sparks the murder of witnesses who last saw the victim-a Denver street walker. Suspects abound, from a man running for governor, to the sister of the dead prostitute, to her daughter, now a police detective herself. While peeling back layers of evidence, PI Arn Anderson must fight to keep himself on this side of the grass.When Denver cold-case detectives reopen the investigation into a decades-old murder of a prostitute, former witnesses begin to pop up dead. Arn Anderson must stay on this side of the grass long enough to solve the murder of the streetwalker. And the dead witnesses.