Burn Me Deadly : an Eddie LaCrosse novel by Alex Bledsoe (2nd in the series). 320 p.
These are fun books (the first one is The Sword-Edged Blonde). Basically, Eddie is a hard-boiled detective, only instead of working in L.A. he's in is a medieval sword-and-sorcery setting. Eddie's riding back to town one night after finishing a delivery job, and a barely-dressed damsel-in-distress nearly runs his horse down. He gives her a ride, but before he can figure out if she's conning him, they're attacked, she (and his horse) are killed, and Eddie's left for dead. Now the authorities don't want him to investigate, but guess what? It's fun to watch the author ring the changes on traditional detective tropes in a traditional fantasy setting.
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