02146cam a2200385 i 4500 1122218016 TxAuBib 20240118120000.0 231012s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781448310135 hardcover 144831013X hardcover TxAuBib rda Goldberg, Lee, 1962-, author. Calico [Book] / Lee Goldberg. First world edition. Edinburgh : Severn House, 2023. vii, 308 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier There's a saying in Barstow, California, a decaying city in the scorching Mojave desert ... The Interstate here only goes in one direction: Away. But it's the only place where ex-LAPD detective Beth McDade, after a staggering fall from grace, could get another badge ... and a shot at redemption. Over a century ago, and just a few miles further into the bleak landscape, a desperate stranger ended up in Calico, a struggling mining town, also hoping for a second chance. His fate, all those years ago, and hers today are linked when Beth investigates an old skeleton dug up in a shallow, sandy grave ... and also tries to identity a vagrant run-over by a distracted motorhome driver during a lightning storm. Every disturbing clue she finds, every shocking discovery she makes, force Beth to confront her own troubled past ... and a past that's not her own ... until it all smashes together in a revelation that could change the world. 20240118. Criminal investigation Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Policewomen Fiction. Silver mines and mining Fiction. Time travel Fiction. Women detectives Fiction. San Bernardino County (Calif.) Fiction. Mojave Desert Fiction. California Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) fast Novels. fast Fiction. fast