Central Kansas Library System

Georgia. Matt and Elena Thompson present the picture of perfection, but their life isn't all it seems. Their marriage is on the rocks, and financial disaster looms. When Matt is killed in a hunting accident, attorney Liz Acosta is looking for job experience before she seeks a position with a big-time firm. Connor Grantham isn't sure that shepherding a rural congregation is what he wants to do with his life, but was drawn into the Thompson's world...

After his divorce, Hunt Jackson decides to start over in Tucson, where an old buddy fixes him up with his wife's friend, Beth. The attraction is immediate, and they're married a few months later. But Hunt's happiness is marred by his bizarre encounter with an insurance agent whose insistence that Hunt increase his coverage sounds, incredibly, like a threat. The agent - tall, gaunt, oddly dressed in an old-fashioned suit and fedora - is himself a menacing...

Discusses a landmark Supreme Court case on the admissibility of hearsay evidence involving a dead cowboy, his widow, and a $25,000 insurance policy.

"A newly minted member of Henley & Hargrove, Pasadena's oldest law firm, Jack MacTaggart is assigned to handle an insurance claim on behalf of socialite Sydney Everett. Hush Puppy, Sydney's champion show horse, has died - and the attending veterinarian confides to Jack that the death was abything but natural. The investigation uncovers intrigue and blackmail, and after Jack reports his findings another body is discovered. And this one is human. Framed...

On a beautiful spring morning in Washington, D.C., a high-profile attorney is found dead in his office. McDermott "Mac" Burke and Oliver Shaw, homicide investigators for the Metropolitan Police Department, are called to investigate. There appear to be no signs of foul play, but there is also no obvious sign of a natural cause of death. The detectives are perplexed until the medical examiner notices a tiny pin prick on the lawyer's neck and theorizes...

"Jane Bunker returns in another thrilling, small-town mystery set in Down East Maine. It seems like everyone in Green Haven knows that Jane Bunker has scored an invite to the ultra-exclusive Summer Solstice Soiree--and they all assume she'll be in attendance, as one of the few eligible single women in town. Of course, that's the last place Jane would like to be; hobnobbing and making small talk with the upper crust isn't exactly her idea of a good...

With New York Times best-sellers like Bloodsucking Fiends to his credit, Christopher Moore has developed a devoted cult following. Coyote Blue introduces Samuel Hunter, a young man who's running from his past while being tormented by an ancient Crow God with a talent for mischief. "Tautly written with a zest for the absurd and the unpredictable."-New York Times Book Review

"Christian O'Brady was pulled into a life of crime at a young age by his con artist parents. Now making amends for his corrupt past, he has become one of the country's foremost security experts. When a string of Southwestern art heists targets one of the galleries Christian secured, he is paired up with a gifted insurance investigator who has her own checkered past. Andi Forester was a brilliant FBI forensic analyst until one of her colleagues destroyed...