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Welcome back, the old codgers of Deaf Row, the nickname of a coffee klatsch in a diner in the town of Midnight in the Colorado Rockies.

The gang returns in 鈥淒eep End: A Deaf Row Mystery,鈥� the enticing sequel to Ron Franscell鈥檚 2023 鈥淒eaf Row: A Mystery.鈥�

The novel鈥檚 main focus is on one particular codger, Woodrow Bell, a retired Denver homicide detective. He steps out of retirement to quietly gather evidence and intel at the request of a cop-friend at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.

The friend wants Bell to learn what he can about a recent fire that burned down the mansion of Ellsworth Toohey, CEO of America鈥檚 biggest 鈥� and legal 鈥� cannabis corporation, located in a town not far from Midnight.

The fire killed two people; the billionaire Toohey was likely one of them.

His corporation was called New Jericho.

Interestingly, that name may hint at a Toohey past tie to what was the Jericho commune in the Rockies and its bloody history.

At the klatsch a few codgers, and the waitress, Fancy, vaguely recall Jericho commune leader Ulysses S. Grant and a shooting in 1969 鈥� or was it 1970 鈥� leaving two dead and one wounded.

That New Jericho-Jericho thread is something Bell wants to probe on his own, though his CBI friend tells him to back off.

Bell is unstoppable. He looks for leads in the village of Deep End, home to a handful of graying hippies, some of whom speak poetically, or darkly, or in gibberish.

The village takes on an increasingly important role in Bell鈥檚 probe, leading to the book鈥檚 explosive conclusion.

Franscell, who lives in Placitas, said the real-life town of Madrid, New Mexico, was the inspiration for the fictional village of Deep End.

鈥淒eep End,鈥� the book, strikes a balance between solving crimes, keeping friends and trying to manage personal relationships.

One subplot is Bell鈥檚 challenging, loving, entwined relationship with his girlfriend Charlie.

Hours after Bell takes the temp job with the CBI, he鈥檚 having dinner at Charlie鈥檚.

She slaps him with some bad news. She has ovarian cancer and will have surgery the next day, a complete hysterectomy.

She confesses that she鈥檚 been on chemo for eight months, and that鈥檚 why she stopped drinking. She explains why she鈥檚 been tight-lipped on the subject of her cancer.

鈥淚 didn鈥檛 want you to see me weak. I didn鈥檛 want to become another thing you had to carry,鈥� Charlie tells Bell. 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 tell you because I didn鈥檛 want to be pitied. I didn鈥檛 want to be 鈥榯he woman with cancer.鈥欌��

She raises still more reasons for her silence: 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 want to be your case file. I wanted to be your lover.鈥�

Bell easily slips into new roles, as comfort giver and caretaker.

The story also brings in Bell鈥檚 difficult relationship with his daughter Sarah.

Bell tries to make amends for his behavior, not paying enough attention to her, but it may be too little too late.

Sarah tells him that she鈥檚 being transferred to a job that鈥檚 taking her to Trinidad. Oh, Bell thinks, not that far. It鈥檚 only a four-hour drive to Trinidad, Colorado.

Sarah corrects him. She鈥檚 moving to the island of Trinidad, part of the country of Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean. Sorry, Dad.

When the book opens, the Deaf Row gang is minus one with the death of George Tomer.

Father Bert Clancy, a local priest and a Deaf Row-er, observes, 鈥淵ou boys keep talking about George鈥檚 life being cut short or wasted. But what鈥檚 untimely anyway? 鈥� God knows the number of our days. And nobody leaves early.鈥�

Another Deaf Row-er, former Midnight fire chief Cotton Minahan, 鈥渞etired鈥� shortly after he was ticketed for drunk fire truck racing.

Minahan laments George鈥檚 death: 鈥淗e should鈥檝e faded out with the rest of us, bourbon in hand 鈥� not gasping through a tube.鈥�

A new codger is Clarence Beers, a former high school football coach who spent his last working years in the classroom misstating facts as a history teacher.

The Jericho commune and the fatal shootings are elements of what Franscell termed 鈥渓ightly fictional.鈥�

Franscell, who is also a journalist, explained that the shootings in 鈥淒eep End鈥� have their roots in a true-crime incident in New Mexico.

That incident involved a Donald Waskey, who had used the moniker Ulysses S. Grant when he led the Lower Farm commune in Placitas, he said.

Waskey/Grant, Franscell writes in a blog, ran the commune until 1970 when he reportedly killed two men and wounded another.

Franscell writes that Waskey/Grant, his wife and their toddler daughter disappeared.

Until 18 years later, when the bodies of two people, one positively identified as Waskey, turned up in the rubble of a house fire in Idaho, Franscell writes in the blog.

The Idaho house fire and shootings have remained unsolved.

For Franscell鈥檚 take on Placitas communal life and death 50-plus years ago, visit his blog at .