Murder, he wrote

Fans of crime fiction may have thought it was a crime when local book reviewer Jeff Mannix disappeared from the pages of our cohort down the street.

But before you put the reading glasses down and dial up the detectives, the mystery of the missing writer has been solved. Mannix and his “Murder Ink” column will make its debut this Thursday (and the first Thursday of every month) exclusively on the Telegraph’s online edition at www.durango telegraph.com.

This week, Mannix – whose resume includes book author, longhorn cattle rancher, male model and heckuva interesting guy – reviews Dodgers, a debut novel from Bill Beverly. Although Beverly’s first foray into book writing, it’s a hard-hitting, gripping trip into L.A.’s gang underworld that we sure hope won’t be his last.