Ray Bates: 2 books

Detective John Bowers is a wily veteran with the Portland Police Bureau. The only mystery Bowers hasn't solved in 23 years behind the badge is blonde and comes in all flavors. The last split cost him his house, his furniture, his drift boat and his motivation. John blames it all on bloodsucking divorce...

It's 1994, and veteran homicide detective John Bowers teams up with his partner Minola Raye to solve another grisly murder in Babylon-Portland, Oregon's fringe district of losers and forgotten victims. Like hungry sharks, Babylon's riffraff feed on the innocent and vulnerable, and only case-hardened...