Mirage Mysteries / Valley of the Sun Books
NEW SOFT COVER. SHIPS FROM WA- USPS. EXPEDITED SHIPPING AVAILABLE. Chariot Victor Publishing. Investigating the murder of evangelist Persis Magen's right-hand woman, Cat DuBois, Joe and Tommy meet a variety of people of varying degrees of weirdness. The Phoenix Zoo depiction in the denouement is as it was during its first few years (I am a charter member). It is sort of the same today only much, much better. Christian; Detective and mystery stories; Fiction
if YOU LOVE MYSTERIES YOU WILL ENJOY GILA MONSTER
Joe and Tommy go to England and Ireland. Of course, it's not a normal tourist trip. Joe finds his father-in-law embroiled in the murder of his business partner, and persons unknown are trying to kill Tommy's uncle. Action ensues.
The assassins were not successful, but they put Joe down pretty darn good. Why? Who? Fingers point to someone in the homicide division, most likely Jerry, the man in charge. Tommy and Gretchen race to find out before whoever it is strikes again. Which of course, this being fiction, he/she does.
Joe Rodriguez and Tommy Flaherty are not averse to dogs. Shucks, Joe’s kids own a couple. But then there’s obnoxious little Buffy, yapping constantly, and Mitzi the Westie, also a pain-in-the-tail. Snarf the basset, however, provides material assistance as they pursue a madman. A serial killer is murdering people and in the process breaking all of their long bones. All of them. Complicating Joe’s life is his growing preoccupation with Tommy’s cousin Bridgid. What was once casual interest is becoming an obsession, and he is mooning so constantly, his captain puts him on forced leave. This does not prevent him from finding himself in cringe-worthy situations, not the least of them a most unfortunate helicopter mishap
Happy holidays indeed. Homicide Captain Hocks’s retirement fund evaporates under suspicious circumstances. Tommy’s cousin, whom Joe absolutely adores, is gang-raped. Computer guru Henrietta is sweating bullets over the upcoming disaster of Y2K that will send the computer system back to the Dark Ages. The kids’ sitter, Tía Edna, turns deathly ill, and Fel gets T-boned by a kid going 55 in a hospital zone. And that’s not taking into account a hideous murder investigation that has Gretchen pulling her hair out. Ho ho ho.
The division is tasked with protecting a federal witness, and Joe Rodriguez knows just where to stash him: a fishing cabin his Yaqui uncle built, now abandoned, back in the hills above the Agua Fria. Meanwhile the forensic anthropologist, a horse aficionada, tags Joe to help protect a herd of feral horses on a private reserve. Topping it off, Joe is getting married in a week. In Galway, Ireland, 12 airline hours away. Will they save the witness? Thwart the rustlers? Make it to the church on time? Since this is fiction, you probably already know the answers. But it’s a fun romp getting there, with setbacks, twists, and turns all along the way.
Lt. Joe Rodriguez is on an emotional rollercoaster he never paid to ride. This story takes up where the previous book, Wild Horses, left off, beginning at the wedding reception. Less than a month after their arrival in the US and honeymoon at the Grand Canyon, the light of his life is abducted. She is rescued, but her abductor remains at large, promising to kill her. Joe quits the force and his beloved career, takes up auto racing, and fights his financial ruin. Then he wonders why his brain, usually so alert and on top of things, is getting a little mushy. Well, duh.