Suicide Season

Devlin Kirk #1

by Rex Burns

The first in the "Devlin Kirk" private eye series finds 28 year-old Devlin Kirk investigating industrial sabotage that leads to death. Criss-crossing the Denver of guarded estates, hospital wards, and melting spring snow, Kirk desperately wants to solve his first case and, more importantly, to solve something about himself.

288 pages, Paperback

First published June 4, 1987

About the author

Rex Burns (b. 1935) is the author of numerous thrillers set in and around Denver, Colorado. Born in California, he served in the Marine Corps and attended Stanford University and the University of Minnesota before becoming a writer. His Edgar Award–winning first novel, The Alvarez Journal (1975), introduced Gabe Wager, a Denver police detective first working in an organized crime unit, then in homicide. Burns continued this hardboiled series through ten more novels, concluding it with 1997’s The Leaning Land. His second series (3 volumes) features Devlin Kirk and "Bunch" Bunchcroft, a private investigator series set in Colorado. The third series, beginning in 2013, follows the adventures of a father/daughter private detective team. The first, "Body Slam," focuses on the world of professional wrestling. The second, set in England and the Middle East, deals with theft from an oil tanker. His short story series, appearing in "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine," features Aboriginal Constable Leonard Smith of the Western Australia Police.

Reviews

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoyable and intelligent... with a Denver setting