A Detective John Bowers Mystery — by Ray Bates

• Jun-2006
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Detective John Bowers is a wily veteran with the Portland Police Bureau.  The only mystery Bowers hasn't solved in 23 years behind the badge is blonde and comes in all flavors.  The last split cost him his house, his furniture, his drift bo...

• Oct-2007
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It's 1994, and veteran homicide detective John Bowers teams up with his partner Minola Raye to solve another grisly murder in Babylon-Portland, Oregon's fringe district of losers and forgotten victims. Like hungry sharks, Babylon's riffraff feed on t...

• Sep-2016
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The Camelot Club, third book in the Detective John Bowers series, catches John off guard. He's trying to escape the city noise and mayhem but kidnap and murder, plus an ex-wife who plays the grieving victim of a cruel crime, pull him back. His par...

• Nov-2016
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A young girl alone on a dark city street, moments from the safety and security of her home, is caught in a terrifying trap. Roving predators change the course of her life, and everyone who cares for her, in a split second of evil. Now she's anothe...

• Jul-2018
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The fifth book in the Senior Detective John Bowers series lands us at the scene of a tragic carjacking to find a young mother shot dead in her parked car. Homicide cops in Central Precinct catch a case which looks like a carjacking. There's a young m...