Kirjahaku

A murder, Mormon mysteries, and a cave full of bones. Zack Tolliver left the Federal Bureau of Investigation to be with his family but when his niece is threatened in the aftermath of the horrific murder of a high school classmate, Zack responds. He learns clues may reside in old bones in a hidden cave on the summit of Canaan Mountain. There is another murder. Some powerful force doesn't want the bones exposed. Zack begins to unravel a conspiracy which potentially involves activist ranchers, the local sheriff's department, Mormon fundamentalists, high-powered state politicians, and secrets carefully guarded for over a hundred years.

One farm worker disappears, another takes his place, yet the numbers stay the same. Rancher Rufus Reyes isn't fooled. His operation is small, he knows everyone. But then another worker disappears, no one takes his place. The man's wife is hysterical, but she won't talk. Reyes needs help. For FBI Agent Zack Tolliver a pleasure trip to the Central Coast of California turns into dangerous business when he becomes immersed in a case involving drug smuggling, rival cartels, murder, and an old enemy. The clues won't add up, the victims pile up, the mystery grows, and the danger deepens. ZACA is the third novel in the Zack Tolliver FBI mystery series from R Lawson Gamble. It is a fast reading crime mystery with a dash of paranormal.

They came down from Oregon Territory in 1864 to tend sheep after a narrow escape from an Indian attack, hoping a peaceful life in the verdant valley of Las Cruces, California would heal Pru's damaged nerves. But violence even beyond what they had already endured awaited them. They were found beaten, stabbed, and burned in their cabin. Their murders were never solved. That was then. But now, Zack Tolliver, FBI, is called to investigate the murder of a woman found near the same murder site, her body burnt beyond recognition, and strange metal bands as if from a hoop skirt melted around her. Was history repeating itself?

His pa died from snakebite when he was four. It was just him and his ma until Ike Sanders came to Deep Water. Most riders drifted away after a day or two but Ike stayed on. He invested in the town, started a newspaper and took an interest in Johnny. When Johnny was fifteen Ike hired him on as an apprentice, and ma stopped working at the Lucky 7 Saloon each time a cattle drive came through. Life was pleasant. Then The Kid came to town and everything changed. A long-ago secret connected Ike and The Kid, a secret the feared gunfighter wasn't about to let go.