Border Field Blues: A Rolly Waters Mystery

The second novel in the Rolly Waters mystery series.When nesting grounds at the Border Field Park bird preserve are torn to shambles by eco-vandals Rolly Waters is hired to follow the tracks left behind. Feeling less than optimistic about nabbing the perpetrators he begins his due diligence crossing paths with a local border vigilante a tormented vaquero and an aging rock groupie. A menacing house call from a scalpel-wielding orderly in pursuit of a prostitute named after an 80s pop hit confounds Rollys case even further. When police detective Bonnie Hammond hands him a coroners report he knows its turned deadly.This rollicking Southern California crime novel merges old-school detective story-telling with contemporary issues of immigration political extremism and the idiosyncrasies of playing the blues. A cozy hero living in a noir world Rolly Waters struggles with his identity as a former musician as he attempts to recover from his rock and roll past. A colorful cast of local characters fleshes out this engaging mystery which takes Rolly and the reader on a fast-paced ride through a dangerous underworld of record company intrigues video games international sex trafficking and murder.