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Summer in Benteen, County, Kansas, is a season possessed of all the gentle subtlety of an act of war.

A notice announcing that Harry Devlin died suddenly on Mid-summer’s Eve arrives at the office of his law firm one June day.

Theda Krakow is in a funk. Her sometime boyfriend’s gone for good. The death of her beloved cat opened a bigger void.

Byzantium, capitol of the sixth century Roman Empire, simmers a rich stew of creeds, cultures, and citizens with a sprinkling of cutthroats and crimes.

Soon after an ancient talisman is smuggled out of Hong Kong, a container ship filled with Chinese refugees runs aground on Alcatraz, the crew murdered.

Attorney Rep Pennyworth has the client from hell... Charlotte Buchanan, author of a mystery of no particular merit, contends her 1997 novel was stolen and used as the basis for a 1999 film.

Parrots will repeat anything; they don’t talk sense. Or do they?

Tai Randolph thinks inheriting a Confederate-themed gun shop is her biggest headache, until she finds a murdered corpse in her brother’s driveway.

Sleepy Benteen County, Kansas, turns frantic on election day. Sheriff English, better known as "Englishman," faces his toughest re-election challenge yet.

Storm Kayama’s old high school friend, Tanner Williams, wants a favor.

Summer is deadly in the mountain community of Mason County, Virginia.

Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman is always busy, but now more so than ever.

A handsome young New York professor comes to Phoenix to research his new book. But when he’s brutally murdered, police connect him to one of the world’s most deadly drug cartels.

Aging Posadas County Undersheriff Bill Gastner has weathered his quadruple bypass and is taking a rare vacation up in New Mexico’s northern mountains.

For many years Westonbury Cathedral has been dominated by a clique of High Church gays, so when Norman Cooper, an austere, intolerant, happy-clappy evangelist, is appointed dean, there is shock, ou