Kings Rapids: A Kurt Maxxon Mystery

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iUniverse, May 4, 2009 - Fiction - 312 pages
Race driver Kurt Maxxons 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, Gallegars 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. Kurts 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 questionWho killed Rusty Gallegar?

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CHAPTER TWO
12
CHAPTER THREE
26
CHAPTER FOUR
38
CHAPTER FIVE
54
CHAPTER SIX
68
CHAPTER SEVEN
80
CHAPTER EIGHT
92
CHAPTER NINE
104
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
172
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
182
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
192
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
204
CHAPTER NINETEEN
216
CHAPTER TWENTY
228
CHAPTER TWENTYONE
238
CHAPTER TWENTYTWO
248

CHAPTER TEN
118
CHAPTER ELEVEN
128
CHAPTER TWELVE
140
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
152
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
162
CHAPTER TWENTYTHREE
260
CHAPTER TWENTYFOUR
270
CHAPTER TWENTYFIVE
280
CHAPTER TWENTYSIX
290
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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.

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