Desert Shadows: A Lena Jones Mystery #3
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 seldom...
View ArticleDesert Noir: A Lena Jones Mystery #1
At the age of four, Lena Jones was found lying unconscious by the side of an Arizona Highway, a bullet robbing her of any memories. Now a private detective and scarred survivor of a dozen foster homes,...
View ArticleDesert Lost: A Lena Jones Mystery #6
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. Lena...
View ArticleDesert Cut: A Lena Jones Mystery #5
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. The...
View ArticleConcrete Desert: A David Mapstone Mystery #1
Having recently lost his job as a history professor, David Mapstone returns to his boyhood home of Phoenix, Arizona, to find the city dramatically changed. It’s now a haven for wealthy retirees and a...
View ArticleCamelback Falls: A David Maptsone Mystery #2
When his friend Peralta, newly sworn in as sheriff, is shot by a sniper, historian-turned-deputy-sheriff David Mapstone can’t keep a cool, academic distance. And he’d better not: while Peralta lies...
View ArticleCactus Heart: A David Mapstone Mystery – Prequel
In this prequel to the popular David Mapstone mysteries, author Jon Talton takes us back to 1999, when everything dot-com was making money, the Y2K bug was the greatest danger facing the world, and the...
View ArticleArizona Dreams: A David Mapstone Mystery #4
When a former student turns up in David Mapstone’s office, she seems to have the perfect case for this history-professor-turned-deputy: a letter left by her deceased father, confessing to a...
View ArticleDesert Rage: A Lena Jones Mystery #8
Ferociously ambitious U.S. Senatorial candidate Juliana Thorsson has been keeping a secret. The horrific slaughter of a prominent doctor, his wife, and their ten-year-old son inside their Scottsdale...
View ArticleDry Heat: A David Mapstone Mystery #3
Half a century after the unsolved murder of an FBI agent, the victim’s missing badge is found on the body of a dead transient. The case seems a perfect fit for David Mapstone,...
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