During the 1980s, Jonathan Valin’s Harry Stoner private eye series scintillated readers. The novels were well-written, intelligent, and original with most of the action happening in and around Cincinnati. In Fire Lake Stoner deals with his druggie former college roommate. The murder of a motel night clerk convinces Stoner that his friend is in serious trouble which leads to Stoner taking a perilous journey into the local drug underworld. Sadly, the Harry Stoner series–The Lime Pit, Final Notice, Dead Letter, Day of Wrath, Natural Causes, Fire Lake, Extenuating Circumstances, Second Chance, The Music Lovers, Missing–are all out-of-print but they’re not forgotten by the readers who were moved by the gritty world Jonathan Valin created.