Moving Targets

A Cal Claxton Oregon Mystery #6

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Pub Date 04 Sep 2018 | Archive Date 04 Sep 2018

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"With Moving Targets, Warren Easley delivers another humdinger of a tale featuring the City of Roses. But there's so much more to like about this story than just its evocative Portland setting. Cal Claxton is a guy worth rooting for, and the gang who aid him in solving the complex and dangerous mystery involved are a fun bunch to follow. If you're not familiar with these gems out of Oregon, now's the perfect time to give Warren Easely and Cal Claxton a try. You won't be disappointed." --William Kent Krueger, award-winning, bestselling author of Ordinary Grace and the Cork O'Connor series

When a young woman walks into Caffeine Central, Cal Claxton's law office in downtown Portland, he has no idea that agreeing to help her will turn his life upside down. His new client is the adopted daughter - "I'm brown and they're white" - of a Portland power couple famed for their real estate development firm and charitable work.

Sculptor Angela Wingate, once a wild child, and her recently widowed mother, Margaret, had grown close after years of estrangement. A grieving Angela is hesitant but nonetheless determined to learn if Margaret's recent death was a hit-and-run while out on her morning jog in her ritzy neighborhood, or something more - like murder. Angela is frustrated at the lagging police investigation and by her growing sense of something sinister at work.

As the ever-curious Cal begins to poke the principal players at Wingate Properties and to question Margaret's will, links surface between a lucrative riverfront project and a ruthless Russian ring. With a possible deadly foreign assassin in play, the threat level rises and the body count starts to grow.

Decidedly outgunned, Cal enlists his Cuban friend Nando, an enterprising investigator with an on-call hacker, and a bouncer at a strip club who knows the Russian underworld. And Cal gradually develops other allies - a skeptical police captain and a city councilwoman who opposes the massive riverfront project. In a separate battle, he recruits neighbors and officials who may help him kill the reboot of a quarry operation that threatens his beloved farmhouse home in rural Dundee, a loss that would also be tragic for his beloved dog, Archie.

Beneath this story run the narratives of several strong women connected to Cal who are learning just how powerful they can be as they change up their lives.

"With Moving Targets, Warren Easley delivers another humdinger of a tale featuring the City of Roses. But there's so much more to like about this story than just its evocative Portland setting. Cal...


Advance Praise

"With Moving Targets, Warren Easley delivers another humdinger of a tale featuring the City of Roses. But there's so much more to like about this story than just its evocative Portland setting. Cal Claxton is a guy worth rooting for, and the gang who aid him in solving the complex and dangerous mystery involved are a fun bunch to follow. If you're not familiar with these gems out of Oregon, now's the perfect time to give Warren Easely and Cal Claxton a try. You won't be disappointed." —William Kent Krueger, award-winning, bestselling author of Ordinary Grace and the Cork O'Connor series

"With Moving Targets, Warren Easley delivers another humdinger of a tale featuring the City of Roses. But there's so much more to like about this story than just its evocative Portland setting. Cal...


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Featured Reviews

Cal Claxton is a man of many talents running a mostly pro bono law office in downtown Portland. He left his life as a prosecutor in Los Angeles to open his small law office in the former Caffeine Central and would rather be fishing…with his faithful dog Archie. A young sculptor named Angela Wingate asks Cal to check in to the hit and run death of her mother, Margaret. Although her mother was a very well known and respected member of the community, the police have no leads in the case. Was her mother’s death an accident or murder? After her father’s death, Angela’s mother became responsible for Wingate Properties and Cal finds that there are issues over a proposed riverfront project as well as Margaret’s will. Cal is also trying to prove that the reopening of a quarry near his home is illegal, knowing that this will ruin the area near his and his neighbors’ homes. This is the sixth book in the Cal Claxton series and I have read and loved every book. This is a must-read series! In my opinion, Mr. Easley’s books are reminiscent of the Robert Parker and David Rosenfelt books. There is action, mystery, suspense and humor as Cal and his friends follow each new lead taking the reader along for the ride. I received a free copy of this book and voluntarily chose to give an honest review. (by paytonpuppy)

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