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A Florida swamp guide gets launched on a mystery by discovery of a hat — and a very unusual pair of shoes
Co-authors Carl and Jane Bock pull the reader into a world of natural beauty, fish, birds and crocodiles as they set up events for their protagonist and part-time sleuth
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These award-winning Colorado authors offer their picks to kickstart your 2020 reading list
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A tale of love and loss and moving on … too soon? A Colorado author used mystery to explore a personal issue.
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Take Sherlock Holmes and the steampunk genre, then give it a twist
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A body, a pistol, a will, a dog — and a suggestion of zombies — tell a tale of death in polite company
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Touring a women’s camp, journalist Viva encounters the bald and mysterious Marisol
In a murder mystery set in the Colorado mountains, author C.C. Harrison brings together distinctive characters -- and ukeleles
How a discarded title for her previous book became a Colorado author’s inspiration for the next one
"Burning Ridge" didn't quite fit the last K-9 mystery Margaret Mizushima wrote. But it set her on a course for a new type of crime novel.
A K-9 detective does his job well, which means Deputy Mattie Cobb has another mystery on her hands
In this edition of her ongoing series, author Margaret Mizushima introduces us to the grisly discovery that raises a multitude of questions
An adrenaline-pumping getaway attempt introduces a wounded, desperate man, and raises a million questions
Author John A. Daly's thriller begins with a heart-pounding chase that launches us into the backstory of protagonist Sean Coleman
A double-murder in a nightmarish Garden of Eden challenges an undersheriff in over her head
Charlotte Hinger's chilling mystery features plenty of suspense but also an unexpected star -- a boy's sadly touching diary entries
This real-life Garden of Eden — in Kansas — offered a perfectly diabolical setting for a murder mystery
The actual history on which author Charlotte Hinger bases "Fractured Families" may be even creepier than the double-murder plot