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In late summer, 1972, California’s redwood forests seem a “safe and wondrous place.” But some of Evergreen’s population is growing pot up in the trees and others are bent on stealing it.

This well imagined, carefully detailed, and cleverly plotted debut draws on actual historical events of 1811 London.

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.

The Fisks’ weekend party, a “sleepover” for select couples, remains the talk of the town long after Reg Hopkins’ body turns up in an isolated covered bridge.

On the islands of Java and Bali in the early 1980s, Western governments are pouring millions of dollars into development schemes even as Indonesian strongman President Suharto violently stifles dis

Cheryl Beth Wilson is an elite nurse at Cincinnati Memorial Hospital who finds a doctor brutally murdered in a secluded office.

“You want to borrow a casket?” Funeral director and part-time sheriff Barry Clayton finds Jaycee member Archie Donovan’s request absurd until he learns the casket will be the centerpiece of the Jay

It’s 1976.

Alafair Tucker is a strong woman, the core of family life on a farm in Oklahoma where the back-breaking work and daily logistics of caring for her husband Shaw, their nine children, and being neigh

John Deal's life is finally coming together; he is reunited with his lovely wife, they have a beautiful baby, and DealCo, his Miami construction business, is booming with post-Hurricane Andrew

Leo Painter is the CEO of Earth Global, a large energy, mining and real-estate development firm.

All Bob Dillon ever wanted was a truck with a big fiberglass bug on the roof.

When dairy farmer Stella Crown’s friend, veterinarian Carla Beaumont, is car-jacked it’s just the first of a rash of vicious attacks on local business women.

In classic noir tradition, English Professor Karen Pelletier gains a client when her office door opens and Trouble walks in.

Kanab, Utah is bitterly divided by the politics of land management.