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It’s 1955, and Edna Ferber is basking in the success of her blockbuster novel Giant.

“On this nice July morning in Parkland, North Carolina, the office of Madeline Maclin Investigations might as well have been an Egyptian tomb: hot, dusty, and dead.” It doesnt help that her landl

Posadas County, New Mexico, has very few mean streets and no city-slick cop shop. But it has an earnest, elected Sheriff and his aging Undersheriff William C. Gastner.

It is 539 A.D.

Rep Pennyworth, a trademark and copyright lawyer, has loyally followed his wife Melissa to Milwaukee in her quest for an assistant professorship in English Literature at UWM.

Attending the Yaqui tribe’s Easter Ceremonies in Tucson should be a dream come true for a Cheyenne-wannabe-shaman like Mad Dog.

The year is 29 C.E., and Jerusalem chafes under the Roman Empire’s continued presence and oppressive rule. But in spite of that unpleasant fact of life, life goes on, but not for everyone.

John Deal has spent much of his adult life trying to rebuild the Miami construction firm that his late father ruined.

The year is 548 and Empress Theodora is dead, the victim of cancer. Or so everyone in Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire, believes.

Autumn in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula means hunting season, and the fall of 1950 finds most everyone in St.

Half a century after the unsolved murder of an FBI agent, the victim’s missing badge is found on the body of a dead transient.

Venice, 1742: Tito Amato has regained his zest for performing and is once again singing lead roles at the Teatro San Marco.

A dead body in a locked room in a affluent Virginia country house. Nine people present in the house. No confessions and no witnesses.

For Rachel Chavez, every day is a battle with her demons. She only wants to stay sober and keep her recently inherited parking lot in downtown LA financially afloat. It’s nearly a 24/7 job.

Héctor Belascoarán Shayne has danced with the dead. Luke Estrella does the rumba in white patent leather shoes.