Dead Drop

By James L'Etoile,

Book cover of Dead Drop: A Detective Nathan Parker Novel

Book description

Hundreds go missing each year making the dangerous crossing over the border. What if you were one of them?


While investigating the deaths of undocumented migrants in the Arizona desert, Detective Nathan Parker finds a connection to the unsolved murder of his partner by a coyote on a human smuggling…

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1 author picked Dead Drop as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

As a mystery writer myself, I know what it takes to write a great mystery thriller, and L’Etoile has it all.

Police detective Nathan Parker is enmeshed in a web of crime in the desert Southwest. While confronting human trafficking and drug cartels, he comes up hard against his own law enforcement authorities.

Dead Drop is a death-defying journey into the bowels of bad, and Parker’s ability to come through it alive is a testament to his guile, strength of character, and, sometimes, sheer good luck. The thriller is tautly written and straightforward with no added sugar, with a setting…

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