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Terry Hart and her Aunt Judith are touring the Southwest in their RV. Arriving at Escalante-Grand Staircase National Monument, they hike into a perilous adventure. While exploring a remote corner, Terry discovers the mummified body of Melanie Briggs, who’s gone missing from a local university dig. The sheriff labels the death an accident, but Terry has her doubts… Terry explores the wild land, growing more rash in a search for clues that marks her for murder.
It's high summer in the north, where everyone is bear bait, even the bears. Gunshots chase Belle Palmer from her quiet forest paths. Then, on her remote lakeside road, the savage and unexplained murder of an elderly neighbour puts her on guard against two-footed killers.
Terry Hart and her Aunt Judith are touring the Southwest in their RV. Arriving at Escalante-Grand Staircase National Monument, they hike into a perilous adventure. While exploring a remote corner, Terry discovers the mummified body of Melanie Briggs, who’s gone missing from a local university dig. The sheriff labels the death an accident, but Terry has her doubts… Terry explores the wild land, growing more rash in a search for clues that marks her for murder.
Realtor Belle Palmer turns reluctant babysitter for a spoiled miniature poodle when her best friend is accused of murdering her rich lover, and investment counsellor with a thousand enemies. As Belle attempts to untangle a complicated web of sleazy scams, a stalker has her watching her back and wondering if there's a connection between the two.
Summer on verdant Vancouver Island gets off to a rocky start with the discovery of the body of a homeless man. RCMP Corporal Holly Martin notices drug paraphernalia nearby, and the autopsy reveals death from a combination of heroin and a synthetic opiate. Information leads Holly to believe that he had hidden something of value at the site of his death.
Belle Palmer's old high school boyfriend, Gary Myers, moves to her Sudbury street - he's studying the behaviour of elk in the wilderness. He's soon found mysteriously drowned, while someone has broken into his cottage, taking a camera and laptop. A clipping about poisoning on reserves leads Belle, a real estate agent and amateur detective, to visit the place of his demise and find out what really happened to Gary.
RCMP Corporal Holly Martin takes charge of her first post, a detachment in tiny Fossil Bay on the wild south coast of Vancouver Island. Drunk drivers, speeders and the occasional theft from tourist cars lead the crime roster, but her first day starts with a distress call. A scuba diver has found the body of a girl in the surf. A tragic drowning caused by a fall? c2008.
For Maddie Temple, a literature professor at a small Michigan university, the new school year gets off to a rocky start, with the death of a student (who plummeted from one of the library's top floors). Then a top university administrator dies under suspicious circumstances, with the disliked coordinator of the English department becoming the prime suspect. Maggie turns amateur detective to figure out who is behind the strange happenings and uncover a killer.
For Maddie Temple, a literature professor at a small Michigan university, the new school year gets off to a rocky start, with the death of a student (who plummeted from one of the library's top floors). Then a top university administrator dies under suspicious circumstances, with the disliked coordinator of the English department becoming the prime suspect. Maggie turns amateur detective to figure out who is behind the strange happenings and uncover a killer.
RCMP Corporal Holly Martin takes charge of her first post, a detachment in tiny Fossil Bay on the wild south coast of Vancouver Island. Drunk drivers, speeders and the occasional theft from tourist cars lead the crime roster, but her first day starts with a distress call. A scuba diver has found the body of a girl in the surf. A tragic drowning caused by a fall? c2008.
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