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When a full-blooded Cheyenne called the Bone Lady asks Al Quinn to find her missing daughter, Gerta, he readily agrees. However, he soon discovers that there is no trail, no starting point. Forced to grab at glimmers and hunches that lead him to the seamy edge of a hidden child-porn ring, Sheriff Clayton asks Al to cooperate with an undercover FBI agent.Al's pal Fergie thinks the Bone Lady is one of the scariest women she's ever met. Not only does the woman work in a butcher shop, but some bodies begin to show up sliced like holiday hams.Each effort to find Gerta leads Al down a new dangerous path, from Russian mafia types to his old foes connected with the Mexican cartels. It may be that this time he just has to take a shot in the dark.
Once again, Al Quinn's wish to lead a quiet life as a retired sheriff's department detective is interrupted. A con artist has ripped off a charity drive his brother and his sister-in-law are heading. Sheriff Clayton also wants a favor. He asks Al to look into a report of a chupacabra, a mythological Texas beast that sucks the blood from goats.
An Al Quinn Novel: Book 6Trouble might be gaining on you.When Al agrees to help Fergie find the missing son of one of their long-ago high school classmates, they head off to a ranch in the valley, where some wide open spaces still remain in Southeast Texas.Al is okay with following Fergie's lead in the case, for a change, and even with riding horses. But what he doesn't expect is for the trail to lead them to encounter one of America's most violent gangs, the Mara Salvatrucha.The MS-13 members are vicious, tattooed career criminals who have devoted their lives to machetes and guns. And this bunch is gearing up to wage war with other gangs-fighting, maiming, killing, and dying over their turfs, colors, and hand signs. Heaven help anyone in their way. But to do their job, Fergie and Al end up squarely in the gang's path.
Hardy Hanlon's big dream is to sail a boat on the high seas. Freshly graduated from college, he gets his wish... sort of.He accidentally stows away on a yacht being transported across America on the back of a truck bed. It's a pirate's life for Hardy as he views the country through portholes on the way to San Diego. Ditching his college days, dead-end jobs, and even Ivy Palmer, the girl who has a crush on him, he is off on the travel adventure of a lifetime.Hardy soon discovers he hasn't left everything-or everyone-behind. He also learns that life on today's highways in the divisive and complex place America has become is far from easy sailing.
Retired teacher Esbeth Walters isn't the type to spend her golden years playing shuffleboard with the other old ladies at the senior center. She would much rather stay at home, tending her flowers and reading. But after finding Jake Marston's arm in a bed of coreopsis, Esbeth devotes her free time to sleuthing, channeling Agatha Christie detectives, much to the chagrin of Sheriff Danvers. She can't help it if she's better at solving crimes than he is.But soon, her life becomes a series of real-life murder mysteries.Between Tupperware parties, weddings, and a trip to the north woods of Maine, Esbeth and her eccentric group of pals butt heads with local law enforcement while unraveling a series of seemingly unsolvable cases.
Rage paves the roads of Texas.Al Quinn's quiet life as a retired sheriff's department detective is disturbed by a case of road rage. An angry driver shoots at Al's sister-in-law, Bonnie, and her baby. Bonnie returns fire and wounds her assailant, Ketchum, who leaves the scene. But that's not the end of the altercation.Ketchum gathers some friends to help him get revenge. Al and his entire family are now in the path of enraged, payback-minded armed thugs who have little to lose. Sheriff Clayton makes matters worse by asking Bonnie and the rest of Al's group not to kill the men so they can stand trial. Law enforcement wants to make a point about road rage. But Al would rather teach them not to mess with the ones he loves.
All that glitters is not good.Al Quinn's plans to live a quiet retired life are shattered when trespassers begin encroaching on his lakeside property at night with flashlights and a metal detector.First, there are two men, then four, then six showing up almost every evening on Al's land. Some of them are armed and willing to fire their weapons. Al has no idea what's motivating the unwelcome visitors. But they soon realize their lives are being threatened by some dangerous men.Sheriff Clayton makes matters worse by asking for Al's help on a different matter. With an election coming, two women are getting ready to claim that thirty years ago, Clayton went too far with them when they were underage Girl Scouts. Clayton swears he's innocent, so Al agrees to look into the situation.With all that's going on, Al's life becomes a real Wild West circus, one he can't begin to enjoy since he and his family could all wind up dead.