Thumps DreadfulWater has finally found some peace and quiet. His past as a California cop now far behind him, he\u2019s living out his retirement as a fine-arts photographer in the small town of Chinook. His health isn\u2019t great, and he could use a new stove, but as long as he\u2019s got his cat and a halfway decent plate of eggs, life is good.<\/p>\n
All that changes when a body turns up on the eve of a major water conference and the understaffed sheriff\u2019s department turns to Thumps for help. Thumps wants none of it, but even he is intrigued when he learns the deceased was developing a new technology that could revolutionize water and oil drilling . . . and that could also lose some very powerful people a lot of money. As strangers begin to pour into Chinook for the conference, Thumps finds himself sinking deeper and deeper into a conflict between secretive players who will kill to get what they want.<\/p>\n
In Cold Skies<\/em>, the sly, wry, reluctant investigator of DreadfulWater<\/em> and The Red Power Murders<\/em> returns for another irresistible mystery that only Thomas King could tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thumps DreadfulWater has finally found some peace and quiet. His past as a California cop now far behind him, he\u2019s living out his retirement as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","book_status":[],"book_genre":[],"class_list":["post-14258","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/14258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_status?post=14258"},{"taxonomy":"book_genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_genre?post=14258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}