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  • Sky High Stakes

  • Pacheco and Chino Mysteries, Book 2
  • By: Ted Clifton
  • Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
  • Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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Sky High Stakes

By: Ted Clifton
Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
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Second book in the award winning series Pacheco and Chino. Sky High Stakes continues the stories of Ray, Tyee, and Big Jack from the first book in the series, Dog Gone Lies.

Murder and greed visit the high country....

Tired of spending his days fishing, Ray Pacheco takes on his second assignment with his partner Tyee Chino when the state Attorney General asks them to find out just what the hell is going on in Ruidoso, New Mexico. With the town's sheriff in the hospital with a mysterious illness, acting sheriff Martin Marino is running rough-shod over everyone around him.

What seems like a simple assignment becomes more complicated when Marino is found dead, shot at close range. The suspects include most of the town, from Dick Franklin, manager of Ruidoso Downs racetrack, to bar owner Tito Annoya, to members of the local law enforcement.

At the same time, Ray has an uneasy feeling that the AG is withholding critical details about what exactly is going on in Ruidoso - and why the state was so slow to respond.

It all comes to a surprising conclusion with the involvement of a Spanish princess, a drug lord gone mad, and a few other lowlifes...and leaves Ray wondering if maybe fishing wasn't so boring after all.

©2016 Ted Clifton (P)2020 Ted Clifton
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There was a lot to love about this book! It keeps you on your seat and makes sure you don't want to hit the pause button at all. I listened to it in one shift at work with no pauses unless I had to go into a meeting. Well done and well written!

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Caught me by the ear!

private-investigators, law-enforcement, greed, drug-trafficking, New Mexico, family-dynamics, friendship*****

The investigators are more than they appear to be. One is a former sheriff and the other snoop is a degreed puzzle. They have personal lives which impact their current assignments more than usual because the work involves them travelling around the state on a complicated job for the Attorney General and even the governor. There's crooked cops, a few murders, drug trafficking and some really sticky entanglements. Some areas of the book seemed disconnected until I could see it all coming together. Loved it!
Narrator Scott R. Pollak does a great job of interpreting the various characters and differentiating each one.
I won this audiobook in a giveaway! Yay me!

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