Case Pending

Description

The closer he gets to an answer, the more complicated this case gets... Case Pending follows Lieutenant Luis Mendoza as he investigates the murder of a young girl in Southern California. A child disappears on her way home from the roller rink, and her battered body is later found abandoned in an empty lot in Southern California. It's a demoralising scene that gives Lieutenant Luis Mendoza very little evidence to work with. But little does he know that just across town a young man - oppressed by guilt - finds a spot of blood on his sleeve and worries that it's happened again... When Mendoza connects the girl's death with that of another woman, the case becomes even more dangerous. Dell Shannon's engrossing mystery captures the essence of a diverse Southern California community that is forced to face the worst parts of itself.

Bob Reiss is a New York based author and journalist, a former "Chicago Tribune" reporter and former correspondent for "Outside Magazine." His work has also appeared in "The Washington Post Magazine," "Smithsonian," "Parade," "Rolling Stone" and other national publications. Reiss has published 14 novels under both his own name and the pseudonym Ethan Black.

Bob Reiss captures the expanse, the challenge, and the potential of the changing Arctic, and the clear need for a bold national strategy to realize the promise of this extraordinary frontier. --Gary Roughead, Admiral, U.S. Navy (Retired) former Chief of Naval Operations