Veteran whodunit writer Robert Parker has created a new detective hero, a booze-loving, small-town police chief who had been dumped by the L.A. Police Department because of his fondness for John Barleycorn.

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But for Jeff Rosen, the dream life is being a small-town entrepreneur--and doing it in beautiful Ojai, far from the madding L.A. crowd.

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