Jednou bývalá hostinská s chutí pro dobrodružství, tato autorka byla soukromou pilotkou, parašutistkou, potápěčkou a námořnicí na plachetnici. Rozsáhlé cestování po USA, Kanadě, Mexiku a Evropě vedlo k druhé kariéře jako nezávislá cestopisná autorka. V tomto období začala psát sérii detektivních procedurálních románů zasazených do jihovýchodní Minnesoty, kde vyrůstala. Její knihy staví do kontrastu někdy drsnou rutinu policejní práce s idylickými venkovskými scénami kolem středně velkého města na horním Středozápadě.
Rutherford's New Science businesses are being targeting in a string of office break-ins and threatening notes left by an environmental group. But curiosity turns to alarm when a lead scientist is found dead at his desk. Is the professor's death really to do with his pioneering scientific work, or is there more to it than meets the eye?
A huge mountain fire on Meredith Mountain leaves destruction - and death - in its wake. But are the charred remains of a male body really the result of a natural disaster, or murder? Alice Adams, editor of the Clark's Fort Guardian newspaper, assisted by her nephew, Stuart Campbell, investigate. Can they unravel the truth?
Sarah Burke investigates the shooting of a rookie cop during a shootout with a criminal stealing copper wire from a warehouse, and things get even more interesting when the criminal turns out to be an ex-cop himself.
When Detective Sarah Burke is sent to an incident at Fairweather Farms senior living center, she makes a grisly discovery: the center's van driver was shot in the head during a car chase. But why was a kindly man targeted and killed so dramatically by a team of hoodlums? Sarah is forced to risk her career - and her life - in her search for answers.
A Sarah Burke Mystery - Tucson Police detective Sarah Burke is called in to investigate a horrific double murder in a high-dollar neighbourhood, and the tragic destiny of a rich and troubled family unfolds . . . Meanwhile, Sarahs household bulges at the seams, as her niece, her mother and her boyfriend all search for accommodation in her small spaces and crowded schedule, and her sister, as usual, does nothing to make things easier . . .
From the author of the Jake Hines series - Ambitious Tucson police detective Sarah Burke, still smarting from a painful divorce, tries to concentrate on a body found in a parking lot. The case takes a bizarre turn when Sarahs young niece, neglected by her substance-abusing mother, disappears. The search is complicated by interference from the drug ring the suspected murderers been working for, and Sarahs romantic interest in a troubled colleague rebuilding his life after injury . . .
Sarah Burke and her crew of detectives must solve the murder of a man seen fighting in a house during a Fourth of July street parade.