The murder of a spouse-abusing dentist who enjoyed inflicting pain has detective J.P. Beaumont looking not for a motive, but for the one person who was finally pushed past the point of endurance.

While drying out in an Arizona alcohol rehabilitation center, J.P. Beaumont becomes the prime suspect in his roommate's death, and Beaumont must fight to clear his name.

A prisoner languishes in a Phoenix jail cell, accused of killing his estranged wife. No one belives the man is innocent, except the new Sheriff of Cochise County, in town for a crash course in police training. Joanna Brady is out of her jursidiction-and possibly in over her head. For a human monster in on the prowl, hiding grisly evidenct of his horrific crimes in the vast emptiness of the Arizona desert. And an impromptu investigation, with no official...

The traditions of the Tohono O'odham people are woven into the fabric of three families as Dr. Lani Walker and Pima County homicide investigator Brian Fellows join forces to protect a little girl who witnessed her mother's murder.

When her contractor's unfaithful wife is brutally murdered, former TV anchorwoman Ali Reynolds sets out to prove the husband's innocence in spite of skepticism on the part of Ali's detective boyfriend, a situation that catches the attention of the real killer.

County Sheriff Joanna Brady's worlds collide when her daughter, Jenny, stumbles upon the dead body of her principal, and the search for justice leads to her own door, when the possibility that her daughter may not be what she seems.

"Years after her son's fatal overdose, grieving mother Rachel Higgins learns that his addiction may have grown out of damage suffered at the hands of a pedophile priest while he was in high school. Looking for vengeance, she targets the Catholic Church's most visible local figure, Archbishop Francis Gillespie. When the archbishop begins receiving anonymous threats, local police dismiss them, saying they're not credible. So he turns to his friends,...

A collection of short tales about dangerous women, written by top suspense authors.

Ali Reynolds begins the summer thinking her most difficult challenge will be surviving a six-week- long course as the lone forty-something female at the Arizona Police Academy--not to mention taking over the 6:00 AM shift at her family s restaurant while her parents enjoy a long overdue Caribbean cruise. However, when Brenda Riley, a colleague from Ali s old news broadcasting days in California, shows up in town with an alcohol problem and an unlikely...

After the near-fatal shooting of a former police academy classmate and an encounter with Sister Anselm, who is acting as a patient advocate for a woman who was savagely attacked by a drug cartel, Ali Reynolds is determined to seek justice in both cases.