FIRST AVENUE **SIGNED COPY / FIRST BOOK**

Seattle, WA, U.S.A.: WATERSHED BOOKS, 1999. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. Author's first book. "In the gray predawn, Office Sam Wright paddles rhythmically in his sea kayak from his home in a secluded cove to the shores of downtown Seattle. His is the first shift, the quiet shift. His beat, First Avenue, is a street close to the pulse of the citys darkness. This morning, Sam, with his well-ordered life and his solitary police beat, is about to witness a grisly sight that will alter everything. From the moment Sam is called to a run-down hotel on First Avenue to check out a locked room and a strange smell, the veteran policemans questions about life and death begin to surface. A baby, an abandoned dead baby, sends Sam and his colleague Katherine Murphy on a search to uncover the story behind the tragedy. In the connecting bits of evidence that lead Sam to the truth, at least to the degree that he can find the truth on this street, Sam will encounter the two things he has managed to avoid -- his past and his future." jacket flap. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.