Summer 1940: Las Vegas is a sleepy frontier gambling town, not yet a mob-run haven. Guy McAfee, formerly known as the Al Capone of Los Angeles, has big plans for the little city.

  But there’s a problem. Young men have been found dead in the desert from mysterious circumstances. That’s bad publicity. The police are understaffed and inept. So McAfee hires a big-city private detective to solve the case.

  Enter Walt Tolliday. He arrives from LA to investigate. But he comes with personal issues - an acrimonious past with McAfee, a secret heartbreaking grief, and he’s a city slicker in cowboy country.

  With a local woman reporter as his ally, Walt encounters outlaw traditions, corruption, depravity, and the hellish nature of the Nevada desert.

  The Valley of Fire is the third book in the Walt Tolliday detective series, which includes The Dangers of Fog and The Devils in Sunlight.