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The Town That Remembered
Paperback
Series: James Staphano Private Eye, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 17 2026
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a town owned by the mob, the only man you can trust is a fugitive.
James Staphano knows the architecture of corruption. Framed for murder and hunted by a dirty police department, he is a private investigator with his back against the wall. The freezing plains of Akron, Colorado, hide a devastating secret, and Staphano is the only one who knows where the door is.
Beneath the grain elevators and the county courthouse lies a subterranean highway-a perfect, hidden system built for moving whiskey, money, and bodies without ever seeing the sun. When the grieving daughter of a murdered bootlegger hires Staphano to find the truth, he realizes his own frame-up is tied to the town's darkest foundations.
Standing between Staphano and his freedom is The Architect, a ruthless Chicago syndicate boss who has bought every judge, mayor, and deputy in the county. To survive, Staphano must break into a flooded, subterranean vault, steal the syndicate's central ledger, and shoot his way back out.
Fast-paced, gritty, and relentlessly tense, this is hardboiled Colorado Noir at its absolute best.
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