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1) Nightfall
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Clint is having a delicious meal until a family comes to the long table on the deck of the Pirate. A malicious oldman has, apparently, brought his family on a vacation where he constantly belittles them,
He suddenly can't swallow. Clint goes to help.
The old man is murdered that night, Clint is called to aid the police.
Then it gets weird. More murders, horse race fixing, the doctor and lawyer are in Panamá?
Then it really gets weird - to the point...
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The first book of the Clint Faraday series. A collection of shorts that take us from when he first moves to Panamá through several cases where he becomes friends and partners with the Policía Nacionál. Clint is a retired PT from Florida. He finds more work sincw he retires than when it was his profession in the states. He quickly finds he is "soul mates" with the indigebous people in Bocas, the Ngobe. He will spoend the rest of his life in Panamá,...
3) Bottleneck
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Mrs. Bellows from the community center is found dead in a canal. CD investigates and finds there is a kiddie porn ring operating from the mobile home village.
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One of "The Kids" is charged with murder on St. Wartons. CD investigates to find himself in the middle of a very strange intrigue indeed A bunch of international mobsters are going to try to take over South AmericaCritic comment:James Bond, move over I like this one. I really do like the kind of story that goes right to the line, but manages to not QUITE cross it.– JMD *****
5) Pedoverts
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Bottleneck - A woman is murdered. CD investigates to learn there is a ring of kiddie porn operating in the park. CD has to go to Europe in disguise.Death Walks Beside Me - A sad man going into the comarca. Anyone he gets close to is murdered. Why? What does Landrow, a name the medicine woman came up with, have to do with it? What do Vince's childhood friends have to do with it?Dead Drunk - a local man is murdered. The Indios on the island said that...
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A man is accused of killing his brother. He knows he will be cleared, that it was a misunderstood remark that led to his arrest, but he wants his wife and child to return to their home in the comarca. Clint makes sure they are safe, then considers the fact that Jesus WAS murdered, so he investigates. He finds some pretty heavy connections to drug cartels.
7) Road Kill
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Clint gets a call from Rosario Puentes, police, to say there was a road kill found on the bridge near Chiriqui. Seeing he was in David, would he like to help the investigation? "Road kill? So what?" "He was a man named Ernesto Barco. He was popular. We don't know who would kill him or why. It doesn't look like it could have been a hit and run." Oh. That kind of road kill.
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A woman on the beach. She is bored with life out of the city, but gets bored with life IN the city. She becomes friends with the Faradays, and set out to find adventure. She is murdered - but it wasn't her! Her son and daughter come to town. They want her back in the states for the business.What is going on?
9) Deadly Game
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A man is conned into a scheme he won't aid. He kills one of the echemers, and Clint hides him from them while he investigates what is goinhg on. He ends up in a rather strange situation.
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Clint receives a call from Rico Hernandez, police, The Darien. He says Dave said to call. There is a body of a man known to hang around with drug dealers and mafia types."How was he killed?""Tortured several ways, then executed. It's what I want to call natural causes.""Natural causes?""The people he was involved with? Torture and execution are natural causes "
12) Morality Play
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A man who owns a plastics plant that employs troubled youths who have had trouble with the law is murdered. Nick identifies the killer, then the killer is murdered.
13) Night Shift
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8 shorter mysteries defining Nick, his job, and his personaality, Familiarizes the people he works with.
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Will Burke was the type who tends to wear on people's nerves. He wants to be friendly, but ends up being irritating.
He tries too hard.
Sandy Frenton is a female version of Will. As was often heard in the places they frequented, "They're a couple of bloody nuisances!"That must have given somebody an idea. It wasn't meant to be taken literally.
Sgt. Andy Betts is assigned the case. It's his first homicide. His ability with this one could make...
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Omar is in the cantina talking with a semi-pretty hippie type girl who seems a bit spaced out. She writes weird poetry and likes adventure. She is going kite riding tomorrow.Omar says that's not safe along the coast. She could end up a bloody mess on the rocks.She replies that everybody dies sometime.He says he'll delay death as long as he can.She says, "When your time comes, you die. Death doesn't wait for anyone".It certainly didn't wait for her....
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A cheap hood is shot in an expensive hotel. There are some gangsters from the northeast, a newscaster, a car salesman, a retired rock star, an actress – and a few others who might have wanted him dead, but they all seemed to agree he wasn't worth killing. Somebody did kill him. Why?
19) Dead Still
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"I was passing by on the road and saw them there by the rock. I watched a few seconds, but they were dead still."Well, I saw there was a Squirrel Cuckoo in that bush, so figured they were watching it. They spook easy."The cuckoo flew off, so I came down here after I called and they didn't answer."There they were Like that ""Like that " was a bullet in the head.
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When Sylvia Perez wanted something, she got it.When Lyle Fordham wanted something, he got it.Sylvia Perez wanted Lyle Fordham.Lyle Fordham wanted Allie Bainard, and not in a permanent way. He did not want Sylvia Perez.Lt. John Vernon wanted to know who killed those three – and why.
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