Events

Spend a suspenseful Sunday afternoon with T. Jefferson Parker and Steve Hamilton at 2:00 on January 10. Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy Charlie Hood returns in Jeff’s Iron River. The Iron River of the title is the flow of illegal guns across the border tied to drug cartels, one of the pressing issues affecting the lives of everyone living near the U.S. –Mexican border. Charlie joins the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms task force Operation Blowdown and is caught in the consequences of a stakeout gone wrong. (See Suzanne’s review below.) 

Like T. Jefferson Parker, Steve Hamilton writes both an acclaimed series – the Alex McKnight mysteries – and standalone thrillers, including Night Work and The Lock Artist. The title character, Michael, survived something horrible when he was a child. Now in his late teens, he has two talents – drawing and safecracking / lockpicking. The first may help him get the girl of his dreams … if the latter doesn’t get him in trouble with the law or killed, once the wrong people discover it.