Deep End: A Deaf Row Mystery

When a Colorado cannabis billionaire is assassinated, retired Denver homicide cop Woodrow "Mountain" Bell is pulled back into the inferno-one that sparked half a century earlier at a vanished hippie commune called Jericho. As Bell digs into the ashes, he uncovers links between the mogul and a charismatic killer who once fled those same mountains. Now, with the old codgers of "Deaf Row" at his side, Bell must face ghosts, secrets, and the unholy marriage of idealism and greed before the past burns the living one last time. He's got help, whether he wants it or not. His aging morning coffee cronies at Midnight's Tommyknockers Diner-they call themselves "Deaf Row"-a raucous klatsch comprising the retired newspaper editor, an old priest, town doctor, fire chief, and assorted other local codgers who disguise affection for and loyalty to each other as insult and banter. These old men are wrestling with the creeping sense they're growing invisible.