While his official life as a detective might be over, Cliff never stopped looking for evidence to put Jackie away for good, but in the process he might have stumbled onto something a little more sinister. Naturally, this costs him his badge and law enforcement career in general, forcing him down the path of his lifelong passion: running a small bookshop. Lacking any proper evidence and facing an absolute master at evading the law, Cliff opts for a more old-school approach, dishing out a bit of his own off-duty justice on Jackie. These rare books have been largely purchased from Bobby Westfall, a local bookscout who largely keeps to himself… until the day he is found murdered, and a suspect is fingered in Jackie Newton. The story is naturally centred on Cliff, a Denver homicide detective, and more importantly, an avid collector of rare books. Thankfully, there are still, at the very least, book characters willing to take up such a mantle, as does Cliff Janeway in John Dunning‘s Booked to Die. Few people these days are interested in owning physical copies, and even fewer take pleasure in owning rare and first editions.
With the advent of digital technology, online videos, movies, and e-readers, books as they were once known are slowly fading out of popular culture.
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