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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg, comes an explosive, page-turning investigative thriller - with a mind-blowing twist.
There's a saying in Barstow, California, a decaying city in the scorching Mojave desert . . .
The Interstate here only goes in one direction: Away.
But it's the only place where ex-LAPD detective Beth McDade, after a staggering fall from grace, could get another badge . . . and a shot at redemption.
Over a century ago, and just a few miles further into the bleak landscape, a desperate stranger ended up in Calico, a struggling mining town, also hoping for a second chance.
His fate, all those years ago, and hers today are linked when Beth investigates an old skeleton dug up in a shallow, sandy grave . . . and also tries to identity a vagrant run-over by a distracted motorhome driver during a lightning storm.
Every disturbing clue she finds, every shocking discovery she makes, force Beth to confront her own troubled past—and a past that's not her own—until it all smashes together in a revelation that could change the world.
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"One of the most compelling novels I've read in a long time. Great characters, a vivid historical setting, and intriguing plot twists had me staying up late to finish it. Goldberg always delivers the goods, and Calico is something special." ? James Reasoner, Spur-Award finalist and author of more than 350 westerns"
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"A superb twin-track thriller featuring constant intrigue and a huge secret—could be Lee Goldberg's best ever!"
— Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author -
In Calico, Lee Goldberg seamlessly blends a present-day police procedural with a Western from the 1880s. The results are a genre-bending, gripping read." ― #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben
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A mind-bending thriller unlike anything I have read before. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough!" ― New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay
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A tour de force of a novel. The authenticity is overwhelming, the writing is taut, and the mystery is thoroughly engrossing." ― James Robert Daniels, author of The Comanche Kid, a Spur Award finalist for Best Western Novel
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One of the most compelling novels I've read in a long time. Great characters, a vivid historical setting, and intriguing plot twists had me staying up late to finish it. Goldberg always delivers the goods, and Calico is something special." ― James Reasoner, Spur-Award finalist and author of more than 350 westerns
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A two-fisted western mystery with a compelling heroine in Beth McDade. If you like the Yellowstone series and its spinoffs, you'll love Calico!" ― Peter Brandvold, multiple Spur Award finalist and Western Fictioneers Lifetime Achievement Award honoree
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Lee Goldberg delivers with the unapologetically savvy Beth McDade, a detective unafraid of following the dead bodies and the mystery surrounding them. Calico couples history with good old fashioned detective work." ― Yasmin Angoe, award-winning author of the Nena Knight series
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Calico is stunningly original - a magical mixture of a murder mystery and an old-fashioned Western, set in the California desert. It's also a heartwarming, epic story of one family that spans the centuries. Read it today - you won't soon forget it!" ― Matt Witten, author of Killer Story
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"A superb twin-track thriller featuring constant intrigue and a huge secret—could be Lee Goldberg's best ever!
— #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child -
In Calico, Lee Goldberg seamlessly blends a present-day police procedural with a Western from the 1880s. The results are a genre-bending, gripping read.
— #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben -
A mind-bending thriller unlike anything I have read before. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough!
— New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay
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About Lee Goldberg
Lee Goldberg, a New York Times bestselling author, is a two-time Edgar Award and two-time Shamus Award nominee and the recipient of the Poirot Award from Malice Domestic in 2012. He has written more than thirty novels, including the Fox & O’Hare books cowritten with Janet Evanovich. He has also written and/or produced many TV shows, including Diagnosis Murder, SeaQuest, and Monk, and is the co-creator of the Hallmark movie series Mystery 101. As an international television consultant, he has advised networks and studios in Canada, France, Germany, Spain, China, Sweden, and the Netherlands on the creation, writing, and production of episodic television series.
About the Narrators
Eric Conger is a stage actor, voice artist, and award-winning audiobook narrator. He has narrated more than 125 fiction and nonfiction audiobooks and was a four-time finalist for the Audie Award, both as a sole narrator in 2007 and 2008 and as part of a multicast reading in 2001 and 2012. He has earned numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards. His extensive voice-over work includes more than 5,000 narrations for commercial ventures. A graduate of Wesleyan University and the University of Paris, he also works as a writer and playwright. He has appeared in over fifty plays and has also translated plays of Molière and Feydeau for regional theaters.
Nicol Zanzarella is an Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator and a theater and television actress. She has appeared in productions of Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, The Winter’s Tale, Cousin Bette, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, and many others.