SL Smith will be discussing the 7th Pete Culnane Mystery! Ramsey County District Court Judge Charles Canby is found murdered high on the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River, along St. Paul’s Cherokee Trail. St. Paul Police investigators, Pete Culnane and Martin Tierney, battle their way through the politics and loyalties of the Judge’s turbulent life. Facts revealed in the process raise disturbing questions about how the victim became and remained a judge. To solve this case, they must discover and unravel the tangled threads that wind through the judge’s life, revealing the truth about his life and the motives leading to his violent end.

SL Smith "Dead Reckoning"