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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.

A young Canadian homesteader travelling far from home finds himself accused of murder in the state of Kansas in 1871.

A chance meeting in a restaurant, after four years apart, sends a couple flashing back through the highs and lows of their courtship and marriage.

The day after their friend Cathy’s funeral, Margot, Tate, and Connie gather for a round of golf in honour of their recently departed fourth.

A relaxing weekend trip full of fishing, football, and beer is on the agenda for the Melville brothers. Unfortunately, so is confronting eldest brother Lee's terminal illness.

The truth and lies of a friendship come to the surface during a weekend visit between two couples. There are plenty of surprises along the way in this comedy of manners.