Stardust Trail
By J.R. Sanders
2020
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2021 Spur Award Finalist (Best Western Historical Novel)2021 Silver Falchion Award Finalist (Best Investigator)Against his better judgment, Hollywood-hating private investigator Nate Ross takes on a Tinseltown case in the spring of 1938. It sounds like a milk run; find an alcoholic screenwriter whose absence is stalling production on Republic Pictures' latest Western.But when the missing rummy turns up dead, and Nate learns that somebody's going to lethal lengths to keep Stardust Trail from being made, his simple case becomes far more complex, and deadly. He finds himself traveling in unfamiliar the world of the B-movie cowboys, and the lines between the "reel" West and the real West begin to blur as Nate wrangles a twisted case of murder and sabotage pointing back nearly forty years to a bloody, real-life, "Wild West" crime.
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J.R. Sanders
Author · 5 books
Award-winning author J.R. Sanders is a native Midwesterner and longtime denizen of the L.A. suburbs. His nonfiction articles appear in such periodicals as Law & Order and Wild West magazines. His books include Some Gave All, which gives true accounts of forgotten Old West lawmen killed in the line of duty. J.R.’s first Nate Ross novel, Stardust Trail - a detective story set among the B-Western film productions of 1930s Hollywood - was a 2021 Spur Award Finalist (Best Western Historical Novel) and Silver Falchion Finalist (Best Investigator). His second Nate Ross novel, Dead-Bang Fall, won the 2023 Shamus Award (Best Original PI Paperback).
