Aroostine Higgins Books
Sabotage. Arson. Attempted murder. Dealing with terrible crimes is Aroostine Higgins’s job as an assistant US attorney in the Department of Justice’s elite Criminal Division. Except this time, she’s the victim—and the perpetrator is a faceless mastermind who’s derailing her life. He makes her latest court case vanish, he sets her home ablaze, and he nearly kills her when she undergoes surgery, all from behind the terrifying veil of anonymity. Aided by a brilliant computer programmer, this mysterious and lethal man can access every detail of the attorney’s life. There’s no havoc he can’t wreak with a few dangerous keystrokes—and nothing he won’t do to achieve his goals. When the person she loves most is abducted, Roo must risk her career—and her life—to save him. Revised edition: This edition of Critical Vulnerability includes editorial revisions.
Investigating an embezzlement scheme at a Native American casino tears federal prosecutor Aroostine Higgins away from a romantic getaway with her husband, Joe. Dispatched by her superior in the hopes that her Native American roots will win trust in a community wary of outsiders, Aroostine goes on high alert when she finds her would-be informant executed in his home. Money skimming, murder, and rumors of stolen military weapons are linked to someone on the reservation, and Aroostine butts heads with tribal authorities bent on solving the crime and doling out punishment on their own terms. After narrowly escaping a deadly ambush, she and Joe must somehow protect each other and another whistle-blower from a killer’s bullet. She’ll have to connect with the heritage she left behind in order to track down this ruthless killer.
A woven basket of unexplained provenance. A missing socialite. A desecrated corpse. For a sleepy Southern Louisiana town, Belle Rue is home to an awful lot of secrets. Office of Tribal Affairs Liaison Aroostine Higgins arrives in Belle Rue with a simple mission: track down the weaver of a one-of-a-kind example of Native American basketry. But her arrival coincides witt the discovery of a body. Suddenly, Aroostine and Joe find themselves in the middle of both a homicide investigation and a scandal that spans generations.
Aroostine Higgins is back in USA Today bestseller Melissa F. Miller’s enthralling series. With nothing left to lose, Aroostine becomes a relentless hunter who won’t stop until she finds a missing teenager and brings justice to a hurting community. After her husband dies in a car accident, Aroostine wants to be left alone to mourn. But life has other plans. When a teenage girl goes missing, the authorities write her off as a rebellious runaway. An old friend implores Aroostine to help track down the girl for her desperate mother. Still reeling, Aroostine sets off on a cross-country hunt that puts her in the cross-hairs of a shadowy organization with violent ties as she searches for a girl who has very good reasons to want to stay lost.
A mother and her eleven-year-old daughter vanish from their Crossfire Creek home. The girl is vulnerable. The mother, impulsive. Tracker Aroostine Higgins is called in to find them, fast, before they're hurt ... or worse. Aroostine assumes her Rue Jackman alias, packs up her truck, and hits the road with her dog Rufus by her side to do what she does best: Find the missing. Unofficially, under the radar, and not necessarily entirely legally. Meanwhile, Special Agent Patton Banks of the National Park Service Investigative Services Branch is tasked with solving the execution-style murder of a low-level criminal. Officially, entirely legally, and as quickly as possible. When Aroostine's search gets tangled up with Patton's investigation, the collision sets off a barrage ... and she's caught in the crossfire. Don't miss this fifth-in-series thriller from USA Today bestselling author Melissa F. Miller.
A mass murderer hides somewhere in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He has a deadly secret. And a bomb. Tracker Aroostine Higgins and Special Agent Patton River Banks have a strained relationship. But, when Aroostine picks up the trail of a fugitive during a visit to Clingmans Dome, she and the National Park Services criminal investigator have no choice but to work together. Alan Steven Reynolds has been on the run for years—ever since he helped engineer one of the country’s deadliest bombings. When Roo finds evidence that he’s hiding out in the park’s 800 square miles of dense forests, she and Patton join forces to find him. They aren’t the only ones looking for Reynolds, though. He’s been active during his time underground, and a new client has explosive reasons to stop him from talking to the authorities. Roo and Patton are in a race against time and a shadowy enemy. They need to bring Reynolds in before his partner brings him down, along with anyone else who happens to be in the woods. Clingmans Dome is the sixth book in USA Today bestselling author Melissa F. Miller’s smart, fast-paced Aroostine Higgins series.
Aroostine Higgins returns in a page-turning thriller from USA Today b estselling author Melissa F. Miller. When a tourist reports an abandoned car at a remote trailhead at the Grand Canyon's North Rim, Aroostine Higgins is the logical choice to investigate the high-profile case. After all, it's her job. She's a consultant to the National Park Service Investigative Services Branch, and she specializes in tracking people. But when a search of the car turns up a blood-soaked hat that's a match for a missing woman and a scrap of paper bearing the name "Rue Jackman," the case becomes personal. Under the alias of Rue Jackman, Aroostine helps find missing Native American women who've been forgotten by the system. The only problem is the missing woman isn't Native, and Aroostine has no idea why her alias is on that piece of paper.