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What Pickax, the town "400 miles north of everywhere," needs is a new bookstore.

Polygamy can be murder!

After Scottsdale publisher Gloriana Allerton is poisoned at the annual Southwestern Publishers’ Convention and a Pima Indian friend is accused of the murder, Lena Jones begins to investigate the se

While scouting locations for a film documentary on the Arizona’s Apache Wars, Private Investigator Lena Jones and Oscar-winning director Warren Quinn, discover the mutilated body of a young girl.

Zookeeper Theodora “Teddy” Bentley takes Alejandro, the Gunn Zoo llama, to a Monterey Bay-area Renaissance Faire only to discover the still-warm body of the Reverend Victor Emerson, owner of the lo

When zoo keeper Theodora “Teddy” Bentley fishes the body of Koala Kate out of Gunn Landing Harbor, she discovers that her fellow zoo keeper didn’t drown; she was strangled.

Things are never easy for Scottsdale private eye Lena Jones. Her partner in Desert Investigations, Jimmy Siswan, is leaving for an upscale wife and a job at Sun Microsystems.

While running surveillance in an industrial section of Scottsdale, P.I. Lena Jones discovers the body of a woman connected to Second Zion, an infamous polygamy cult based in northern Arizona.

Survival in the upscale Scottsdale art scene depends on how well a private eye does her footwork.

But if Lucy, the pregnant Giant Anteater from Belize, didn’t kill the man found dead in her enclosure, who did?

When P.I. Lena Jones’ Pima Indian partner Jimmy Sisiwan is arrested in the remote northern Arizona town of Walapai Flats, Lena closes the Desert Investigations office and rushes to his aid.

Jim Qwilleran with his two cats, Yum Yum and KoKo help to solve the mystery case behind the Casablanca apartment buildings.

All the world's a stage--and now Jim Qwilleran's apple orchard has become the stage for a real-life murder scene.

Qwill's on top of the world when he rents a house on Big Potato Mountain. The owner, J.J. Hawkinfield, brought real estate development to the once-peaceful Potatoes.

Qwill's on his way to Scotland--and on his way to solving another purr-plexing mystery. But this time Kokds nowhere near the scene of the crime.