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Cheating spouses, a pawned Super Bowl ring, a hundred-thousand-dollar scam. That's only one of Charlie Parker's new cases. The second has Charlie chasing teenage twin girls who practically live on...

A nearly flawless museum robbery, a missing million-dollar necklace, a stalled police investigation. For the victim of the crime, the situation calls for desperate measures, and 72-year old Pen...

From award-winning author Susan Slater, the 4th installment in her critically acclaimed Ben Pecos mysteries. Ben and his fianc? are staying at the lavish home of a family friend, Connie CdeBaca, head...

Newlywed Pauly Caton watches, horrified, as the hot air balloon--the one she should have been riding in--falls from the sky. She races to the wrecked basket to discover both the pilot and her husband...

Chicago insurance investigator Dan Mahoney is sent to the prosperous Double Horseshoe Ranch in New Mexico to investigate the deaths of several prized-and well-insured-cattle. The stakes are high and...

Hair of the Dog sees Dan Mahoney and fianc? Elaine Linden traveling to Florida for his next investigation, where five insured racing greyhounds supposedly died in a kennel fire. But circumstances are...

Women are flocking to invest in a hit movie, and Gracie's mother is no exception. She has sunk her life savings into it. Big returns were promised, and the chance to hobnob with famous actors. Now,...

No one in town heard a thing on the day of the Bean Day festival, but one of the biggest bank heists in NM history happened right under their noses. The crime has never been solved. This much is true...

Samantha Sweet has a contract to provide her handmade chocolates for the jet-set clients of Book It Travel, and Sweet's Sweets bakery is taking on a whole new dimension. Only problem, Sam isn't ready...

New from USA Today bestseller, Connie Shelton, #12 in her internationally popular series. Breaking into another house, creating chocolates worth $200 a box, and helping her sheriff husband solve a...

Native American psychologist Ben Pecos has returned to the New Mexico pueblo of his birth as an intern with the Indian Health Service. Still struggling with the demons of his past, he is plunged into...

Sandy Werner? longtime client walks into Desert Trust Bank, clearly down on her luck. Sandy is shocked to find Mary Holbrook? once-hefty account is down to less than $200. Mary worked alongside her...

The fiery midnight crash of a Stealth fighter on a New Mexico reservation and the disappearance of a young Navajo woman put psychologist Ben Pecos and tribal police officer Tommy Spottedhorse on a...

Psychologist Ben Pecos takes a transfer to Florida in his job with the Indian Health Service. His first assignment in St. Augustine puts him right in the middle of a terrifying case where a student...

Held five years in captivity by the Comanche, Katherine Bellamy and the child she brings home are shunned by polite Texas society. Her brother Ford wasn't a man to settle down-he'd gone away, seeking...

Salvador Zuni is a master carver of traditional Native American fetishes. He is also a cheat. He makes synthetic amber that rivals anything to be found in nature, complete down to the insects he...