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Forgotten Creek: A Winston Radhauser Mystery: #10 Paperback – June 25, 2021

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When the murder of a fourteen-year-old homeless boy rocks the small town of Ashland, Oregon, Detective Winston Radhauser is desperate to make an arrest. The boy, Tadeas Phan, is found on a bench near the pond in Lithia Park, stabbed through the heart. One week earlier, another victim, also stabbed, was found in the Shakespeare theater courtyard. Both had empty Starbucks coffee cups beside them. The press has already dubbed them the Starbucks murders.Maxine McBride, Radhauser’s partner, discovers a homeless man, crouching behind the park restroom. His clothing is blood soaked and he clutches a knife in his hand. She is convinced the man, Michael Cornelius, is the Starbucks killer.Cornelius, known as Corndog, is a former police officer, a Vietnam vet who suffers from PTSD. He is a hero, having received both a purple heart and a bronze star for his service. The evidence against Corndog is daunting, but no matter how hard Radhauser tries to make the pieces fit, he can’t find a motive for the killings. His boss, pressured by the mayor, wants the case closed and insists Corndog be arrested.The case is officially closed, but Radhauser can’t let it go. He risks everything, even his job, to investigate further. The closer he gets to the truth, the harder it is to believe. Will he find the real killer, free Corndog, and reunite him with the family he left behind?
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    A Winston Radhauser Mystery
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tirgearr Publishing (June 25, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1910234591
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1910234594
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.67 x 8.5 inches
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Susan Clayton-Goldner

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Susan Clayton-Goldner was born in New Castle, Delaware and grew up with four brothers along the banks of the Delaware River. She has been writing poems and short stories since she could hold a pencil and was so in love with writing that she was a creative writing major in college.

Prior to an early retirement which enabled her to write full time, Susan worked as the Director of Corporate Relations for University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona. It was there she met her husband, Andreas, one of the deans in the University of Arizona's Medical School. About five years after their marriage, they left Tucson to pursue their dreams in 1991--purchasing a 35-acres horse ranch in the Williams Valley in Oregon. They spent a decade there. Andy rode, trained and bred Arabian horses and coached a high school equestrian team, while Susan got serious about her writing career.

Through the writing process, Susan has discovered she must be obsessed with the reinvention of self, of finding a way back to something lost, and the process of forgiveness and redemption. These are the recurrent themes in her work.

Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. A collection of her poems, A Question of Mortality was released in 2014. Her novel, A Bend in the Willow was released in 2017 and is a Readers' Choice Best Books of 2017 winner. She has just finished a her 11th book in the award-winning Winston Radhauser mystery series and is working on #12. She has also completed a stand-alone thriller, called Tormented, which won the Rone Award for best thriller, and a novel based on her journey to love and forgiveness with her alcoholic and abusive father entitled Missing Pieces.

After spending 3 years in Nashville, Susan and Andy enjoyed a quiet life in Grants Pass, Oregon, with her growing list of fictional characters, and more books than one person could count. Andy died from a massive brain bleed on March 10, 2021. For months afterwards, Susan couldn't write about anything except grief. She found the grief road to be rocky with many pot holes, but she is now writing again. And has found happiness with a man she was in love with 37 years ago, 2 years before she met Andy. She now shares her time between Tucson and Grants Pass. Somehow she knows the writing will be what brings her back to life. When she isn't writing, Susan enjoys making quilts and stained-glass windows. She says it is a lot like writing--telling stories with fabric and glass.

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Just Diane
5.0 out of 5 stars Suspenseful page turner
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2021
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Detective Radhauser lives and works in the smallish town of Ashland, Oregon. This book does pick up where 9 left off. You learn all you need to know inside this book, making Forgotten Creek a stand-alone book.

Detective Radhauser (Known as Wind by family and friends) is a compassionate man both about life and his job. Wind has his intense way of working a case. Meticulous and detail-oriented, Radhauser puts puzzle pieces together others may not see.

Forgotten Creek is about forgotten people otherwise considered the homeless. People of Ashland know they exist, but the homeless are part of a different lifestyle that citizens prefer to ignore. Winston Radhauser, having just returned from a trip, finds himself at a second homeless person's murder. Radhauser, being senior detective, gets the order to take the lead on both murders, which Winston does reluctantly, not wanting to offend his very competent junior partner who caught the first murder in Wind’s absence. This new case is getting too much coverage. His boss tells Radhauser just to solve it. Unfortunately for all involved, what is desired is not always what is right.

Tension at the police station is the result of Radhauser taking the lead. Homeless are protesting since the victims are homeless. The protests are disturbing an otherwise quiet town. Radhauser can’t just do his job. He has pressure from above to make an arrest.

Things in Ashland do not improve as Detective Radhauser follows orders. Tenacious Radhauser continues his investigation until he is satisfied. Radhauser is working against authority and time to find the truth. An arrest does not end a case for this detective. Radhauser must know he has the murderer.

This book is unpredictably eventful. Intertwining lives unfold as tensions rise. Detective Radhauser does not give up until he is content with the result. The detective works endless hours and travels wherever the case takes him. Detective Radhauser is a resourceful cowboy detective who has become my favorite character.
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Lora S.
5.0 out of 5 stars People are upset
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2021
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In Forgotten Creek, the 10th Winston Radhauser Mystery, we find ourselves once again with Detective Radhauser at a crime scene in Lithia Park. What’s up with this? The police station is practically next door to the park. And yet, dead bodies keep showing up there.

People are upset. The victim is a homeless Vietnamese boy, the second homeless murder victim in town in less than two weeks. Radhauser has just returned from his trip to Arizona where he attended his uncle’s funeral, investigated the cause of a fire that destroyed his aunt’s house, and cleared the mother he hadn’t known he still had of the murder of the sister he hadn’t ever remembered having. He hasn’t even had time to talk to his own kids yet. But the Ashland police chief wakes him up before dawn to replace his partner, Maxine McBride, as the lead detective on the case. The police chief is one of those people who expects cases to be resolved yesterday, and with unerring instinct, he once again insists that Radhauser arrest and charge the wrong man.

There have already been riots. The local merchants feel that the problem is the homeless camps (there is apparently more than one in Lithia Park – it must be pretty big), and want the homeless moved to somewhere else. The homeless were already upset that the murder of one of their own that happened the previous week hadn’t been solved yet. Once Radhauser and McBride take the homeless man, Michael Cornelius, popularly known as Corndog, into custody, the homeless community is still more upset. Although McBride found Corndog hiding behind the restroom of the park with what looked like the murder weapon in his hand, most of the homeless population is convinced Corndog couldn’t be the murderer. After talking to him, Radhauser thinks they could be right.

Several people from previous books in the series make return appearances in this book. Attorney Kendra Palmer and her now husband, Caleb Bryce make brief appearances. And Clive Martin, another homeless man who made a mark in the investigation of the shooting at the local high school a little earlier, helps with getting the members of the homeless community to talk to Radhauser.

It was a little disappointing that the police chief was so quick to take Detective McBride off as lead detective on the case. But just like him. I hope that she will get her chance soon.

But for all the investigation they do on Corndog and the homeless Vietnamese boy, it turns out that the real key to the case lies in the other murder – the one that appeared at first to have no viable clues…
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fyn
5.0 out of 5 stars Book 10 and the ENTIRE SERIES
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2021
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Devoured each and every one of the books in this series. Just when you think the author has done all they can, she surprises you YET AGAIN. The absolute Queen of Twists and Turns, Susan WILL keep you guessing! Great characters, real emotions, and consistency to boot! I cannot say enough good things about this excellent series - my review would be longer than all her books put together!
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Amelia Roscow
4.0 out of 5 stars A great mystery with compassion
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2021
I was given a free copy of this book for an honest review.

Susan Clayton-Goldner has done it again in her 10th Winston Radhauser novel. I never get tired of this character and his family. Again, Ms. Clayton-Goldner has taken a current social topic (homelessness) and turned it into a page turning mystery which the beloved detective must solve and which always has twists at the end. I like her style of enumerating all the facts that the detective has learned as he mulls over the case. It is a good review for the reader. If you like mysteries, you will love this book and the entire series. Looking forward to her next one.
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Linda Rainey
5.0 out of 5 stars A Tearful Thriller
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2021
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I am a fan of Susan Clayton -Goldberg's books and I must say this is the best one so far.Tears were streaming down my face st the ending.
She weaves a beautiful full of suspense,lots if twists and turns and lots of regrets.
This book is highly recommended and I look forward to more of the same.
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Cecilia Sutton
5.0 out of 5 stars Tear jerking ending
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2021
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Story lines and characters just bet better with each story I read. This one had me in tears by the end. PTSD is a real deal and has torn many families apart. There was more than one type of PTSD in this story, each tearfully poignant in its own right. Hope there are more stories to come in this series.
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weldon l gressett
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent as usual!
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2021
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This book keeps you reading and waiting for the next surprise! I’ve read all of Susan’s books and can’t wait for the next one! She is a special author!
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Gene
5.0 out of 5 stars Winston Radhauser Mysteries
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 22, 2021
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The best series of books I have ever read, Hope here will be more to come in the future. thanx
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