Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Kinsey Millhone's grit is tested to its utmost as the private detective unearth's the gruesome truth about a long buried betrayal and in the process comes face-to-face with the grisly fact of her own mortality.

"Dr. Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life before gaining her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure, is a renowned investigator known for her razor-sharp senses--honed during her years in the dark--and keen deductive abilities. Now her skills are needed uncomfortably close to home. Two staff members have been murdered at a school for the blind where Kendra spent her formative years. But the murders are puzzlingly dissimilar:...

"Of #1 New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR's Maureen Corrigan said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." With only two letters left, Grafton's many devoted readers will share that sentiment. X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kiss. X: The shortest entry in Webster's Unabridged. Derived from Greek and Latin and commonly found in science, medicine, and religion. The most graphically dramatic...

Professor Olive Twist has come to Zinnia, Mississippi to study the mysterious remains of a body called "The Woman in Red." Olive claims that she knows the woman's identity and can tie her infamous past to many elite Zinnia families.

In this new adventure set in 1920s Scotland, witty, aristocratic sleuth Dandy Gilver has set up shop with her friend Alec Osbourne, forming the detective agency Gilver and Osbourne. The pair travel to an all-girls school in the small seaside town of Portpatrick to look in on the client's youngest sister, who has been teaching in the school. When Dandy's mistaken for a schoolmistress, she goes undercover to investigate the strange goings-on. Teachers...