Zachariah Smith intends to find the person who shot him and Irene Sandhoff outside her office during a citizens rally against Sandhoff. Was the bullet meant for Zack or Irene? Or, by luck, did the killer only have to use one bullet for two targets? Zack finds he must give the shooting his full attention when Phil Pauling, the chief of police in Mackie, Oregon, is shot while in Zack's car, and an old friend is shot at Zack's office. The original bullet must have been meant for Zachariah...Why else would his friends be wounded and dying all around him?
L.L. Thrasher lives outside of Portland, Oregon, with her husband. She has two adult children who live nearby and two cats who live with her.
Her mysteries, which were published in hardcover in the '90s and early 2000s, are available as Kindle ebooks. They are Charlie's Bones and Charlie's Web and the Zachariah Smith mysteries, Cat's- Paw, Inc. and Dogsbody, Inc.
In August of 2013, No Turning Back: Six Short Stories by L. L. Thrasher was released as a Kindle ebook. Two of the stories appeared in print previously. One of them ("Sacrifice") was nominated for the Edgar Award in 1999.