SUN CITY, ARIZONA – A murder mystery set in familiar territory for author Rusty Bradshaw will keep readers glued to the pages until the surprising and exciting ending.

A sixth book written by Bradshaw, former editor of newspapers in Sun City and Sun City West, is now available for purchase on multiple platforms.

“Murderous Reunion” was produced by Author Book Publications. The book is available in paperback and e-book versions on Barnes & Noble and Amazon. The book is also available on Bradshaw’s own website at www.rustythewriter.org and nearly 40 other outlets.

“This story was exciting for me to write because being set in the town where I grew up it gave me a chance to re-familiarize myself with Dubois,” Bradshaw said. “I also wanted, after mentioning Wyoming in a few of my other books, wanted to write a story set entirely in my home state.”

“Murderous Reunion” is a thriller with plenty of twists and turns throughout.

When he retired from law enforcement, Craig Reilly had no intention of going back. But when he travels to his small hometown in Wyoming for a high school reunion, his classmates begin turning up dead under suspicious circumstances. Because the victims where his friends Craig agrees to help the local sheriff’s department in the investigation.

In the meantime, Craig reconnects with a woman he had a crush on in high school and he and Anna Welch become closer than ever. The visit also allows Craig to spend some quality time with his sister, Kathleen, and his brother, Daniel.

But as the investigation into the killings progresses, its elements are all too familiar to Craig. Then his resolve and professional ethics are challenged when Anna and Kathleen are taken by an unknown suspect and it becomes a race against time and the challenges of the Wyoming back country to save them.

Bradshaw’s other five books are “The Rehabilitation of Miss Little,” “Moist on the Mountain,” “Gorge Justice,” “Battle for Stephanie” and “Death in Hazard.” Visit www.rustythewriter.org.

Bradshaw was a journalist of 40 years, now retired and focusing on his novels and other pursuits. In the final years of his journalism career, he edited weekly newspapers in the retirement communities of Sun City and Sun City West. He remains active in Sun City, currently serving on the Sun City Community Assistance Network’s board of directors and reporting on community activities for his YouTube channel. In Arizona he also worked for newspapers in Surprise, Peoria, Scottsdale and Cave Creek.

Bradshaw lived in Dubois in the 1960s and 1070s, graduating from Dubois High School in 1975. In Dubois he was active in sports, the Drama Club and the Rocketry Club, among other activities. He also lived in Riverton in 1977-78 while working for Stylehomes, a modular home builder.

While attending Northwest Community College in Powell, Bradshaw was a reporter and sports editor of the Northwest Trail, the Northwest College student newspaper, and was a member of the Trapper track and field team as a freshman.

He also attended classes briefly at the University of Wyoming before returning to Oregon to begin his journalism career and complete his college degree there.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Eastern Oregon University, attended Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming and grew up in the small town of Dubois, Wyoming.