Murder at Yaquina Head: A Thomas Martindale Mystery

Ron Lovell. Sunstone Press, $22.95 (183pp) ISBN 978-0-86534-345-0

When an elderly friend of Thomas Martindale is found murdered, the vacationing journalism professor and amateur sleuth turns to a manuscript a WWII memoir of her youth in occupied France that the woman had given him. Murder at Yaquina Head, journalist Ron Lovell's debut mystery, follows the sardonic Martindale as he prowls the Oregon coast on the trail of former Nazis.

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