"First Edition: August 2002" stated on copyright page; autographed by Barry Siegel on title page (pic); Ballantine Books publishers, New York; hardbound; very good condition of book with unmarked pages; dust jacket very good and protected in vinyl cover.
 
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Doug Bard has been a detective with the sheriff’s department in La Graciosa, California, long enough to know the score. Now that an influx of upscale chain stores and luxury housing has turned sleepy Chumash County into a boom town, the last thing anyone wants is crime casting a shadow over the prosperity. But Bard also knows he’s not the kind of man who can write off a double fatality as a tragic accident—especially when all his instincts tell him it was murder.