John Ball: Trouble for Tallon (USA 2014)

From the Publisher:
A CASE OF PIOUS MURDER?
When a City Councilman is killed, the citizens of Whitewater, Washington demand an immediate solution to the town's first unsolved murder in decades.

Police Chief Jack Tallon's only clue implicates Dharmaville, a controversial religious cult led by an inscrutable swami. Was it a case of holy homicide?

Tallon's bizarre investigation unearths a slew of skeletons in Whitewater's closets and produces more problems than answers. From the motorcycle arsonist to the kidnapped Hollywood starlet to the mistress in Spokane. It all adds up to... TROUBLE FOR TALLON.

John Ball: Trouble for Tallon. A Chief Jack Tallon Crime Novel. Speaking Volumes, ISBN: 9781612329864 (January, 2014), 187 p., $14.95. eBook $9.99.

John Ball: Trouble for Tallon (USA 1981)

From the Publisher:
When law enforcer Jack Tallon switched beats -- from big-city cop to small-town police chief -- he pictured himself handing out parking tickets, not investigating homicides. Murders just didn't happen in picket-fence communities like Whitewater, Washington. But one did. A town councilman is found beaten to death in a back alley, and Tallon is soon on a case that features a most surprising cast of characters: a hirsute arsonist, a missing movie star, and a commune of religious cultists. But the real surprise for Tallon is the grit and resourcefulness of his rookie police force. TROUBLE FOR TALLON deals with more than the procedures of a murder investigation: It's the story, too, of how a small-town police department learns to function like a crack detective team.

John Ball: Trouble for Tallon. A Chief Jack Tallon Crime Novel. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday / Crime Club, 1981, ISBN: 0385173296 (January, 2014), 179 p., $9.95.