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Stone Creek series volume 1
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Arizona Ranger Sam O'Ballivan, posing as a schoolmaster to control the rough ranchers' children who attend the school, finds himself distracted by Maddie, the lovely sister of one of his worst students, who runs the local mercantile.
3) Hand of evil
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With his hand trapped in the door of a speeding car, a man struggles to remain upright as he's dragged along a deserted Phoenix road. As his remains grow cold, the killer embarks on a grisly murder spree that takes him across the Southwest. A hundred miles away, Ali Reynolds is grieving -- both for the loss of her career and for the cheating husband she once thought she knew. When an old friend calls to claim a long-overdue favor, Ali finds new purpose...
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Dan Sheridan, Vietnam veteran and writer of Westerns and history, had come to Arizona to research the Toomey brothers, who had vanished there 90 years earlier with 4,000 head of cattle and 27 hands. He was about to give up and go home when someone was killed. Then someone tried to kill him, which, naturally, got his attention and riled his curiosity. Now he wouldn't go until he found the truth ...
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Whispering Springs novels volume 2
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Upscale interior designer Zoe Luce has found peace and contentment in Whispering Springs, Arizona. She has a thriving business, and she's settling into newlywed life with private investigator Ethan Truax.
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Stone Creek series volume 2
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Determined to ignore the attraction between them, schoolteacher Lark Morgan and Marshal Rowdy Rhodes, both of whom are hiding dark secrets, form a tentative alliance when the past collides with the present.
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From Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Bean Trees, and other modern classics, Animal Dreams is a passionate and complex novel about love, forgiveness, and one woman's struggle to find her place in the world.
At the end of her rope, Codi Noline returns to her Arizona home to face her ailing father, with whom she has a difficult, distant relationship. There she meets handsome Apache trainman Loyd Peregrina,...
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St. Kilda Consulting volume 2
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On what at first appears to be an ordinary day, everything changes for private banker Kayla Shaw when she barely escapes a brutal kidnapping attempt and finds herself accused of a shocking crime: the illegal laundering of hundreds of millions of dollars. Damned by lies and false "evidence," she is trapped with no place to run. After five agonizing years, landscape painter Rand McCree has finally been offered what he desires most: the name of his twin...
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Walker family volume 4
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The traditions of the Tohono O'odham people are woven into the fabric of three families as Dr. Lani Walker and Pima County homicide investigator Brian Fellows join forces to protect a little girl who witnessed her mother's murder.
10) Dead wrong
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 12
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As if juggling a family, including the impending birth of a second child, a career and a staff shortage at the Sheriff's office aren't enough, Sheriff Joanna Brady has to deal with two serious crimes. The first is the dead body of an ex-con who was found in the desert with all his fingers severed. The second is the brutal attack of one of her officers while on unauthorized stakeout. Being a sheriff is what she is and Joanna will stop at nothing to...
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The collapse of one of the stone walls of Surprise Valley where the gunman, Lassiter, Jane Withersteen and young Fay Larkin have been imprisoned for the last ten years, results in their capture by a hooded Mormon. The price extracted for Lassiter's and Jane's life is the immediate marriage of 15-year-old Fay Larkin to the mysterious, cruel, hooded Mormon leader. John Shefford, a defrocked minister from Illinois, embarks on a quixotic quest to find...
12) Cruel intent
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When her contractor's unfaithful wife is brutally murdered, former TV anchorwoman Ali Reynolds sets out to prove the husband's innocence in spite of skepticism on the part of Ali's detective boyfriend, a situation that strains their relationship and catches the attention of the real killer.
13) One last look
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Preparing for the birth of their first child, attorney Clare Westbrook and homicide detective Tony Sonterra are starting a new life in a small Arizona town--Tony as sheriff, and Clare with her law practice--only to find themselves drawn once again into a dangerous mystery in which the body count keeps rising, in the sequel to Don't Look Now and Never Look Back.
14) Trial by fire
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Taking a media relations position with the Yavapai County Police Department, former television journalist Ali Reynolds investigates a subdivision fire and the identity of an injured amnesiac woman, a case that unleashes a family drama and a remorseless killer.
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 13
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Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady investigates the death of handicapped woman who had wandered away from a care facility with a suspicious track record and the deaths of an elderly couple who were presumably consenting partners in a suicide pact.
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Big-city homicide detective J. P. Beaumont and small-town sheriff/mom Joanna Brady join forces once again to solve a case involving a series of murders--six young women wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline, and set on fire; and one elderly caretaker run over and left to die.
18) Exit wounds
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 11
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The intense desert heat has brought horror to a small corner of the Southwest. A body lies lifeless in an airless trailer, surrounded by seventeen others. It is a crime unspeakable in its conception and execution-a nightmare strangely connected to a grisly slaughter in a neighboring state, where the corpses of two women are found tied up, naked, and gruesomely posed on a rancher's land. A day that started out hot has already turned blistering for...
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Atlee Pine novels volume 1
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"Atlee Pine, is an FBI special agent assigned to the remote wilds of the western United States. Ever since her twin sister was abducted by a notorious serial killer at age five, Atlee has spent her life hunting down those who hurt others. And she's the best at it. She could be one of the Bureau's top criminal profilers, if she didn't prefer catching criminals in the vast wilderness of the West to climbing the career ladder in the D.C. office. Her...