River City
by Doc Macomber
"Patrolling Portland's Liquid Streets"As a frozen fog lifts, River Patrol Deputy, Jason Colefield, motors ashore on idyllic Sauvie Island to recover a body. Colefield has a history with the Pacific Northwest Island and any return triggers unpleasant boyhood memories. This visit he comes face-to-face with his childhood nemesis, now a timeworn man, who leads him to the bullet riddled body of a young boy he claims he stumbled upon while hunting. Colefield suspects the man is lying but it will take more than just gut instincts to prove it.Within hours the FBI dispatches Agent Tamara Costa, an old high school sweetheart, to assist in the investigation and its possible connection to a serial killer. With her marriage on the rocks, only an indecipherable clue to go on, she pushes her way back into Colefield's life and wastes no time igniting the fire that still lingers between them. Colefield, torn between his renewed affection for his old flame and his teetering relationship with a...