Alamosa Public Library

Investigating the lack of a building permit for Commissioner Brunetti's apartment, a young bureaucrat uncovers a frightening secret and promptly dies from an apparently accidental fall; investigating his death in turn, Brunetti is drawn into a world of drugs, loan-sharking, and corruption.

A group of friends reunites at a classmate's funeral, and stumbles upon a financial opportunity that's too good to pass up. But when the investment goes south, they learn that part of their funding came from a notoriously ruthless crime boss, and now it's payback time. They have one perilous chance to the erase the debt, and if they can complete the task they just might escape with their lives.

"In Beyond the Law Sherman Rawls owns the largest spread in the Red Rock Mesa country. Rawls is also the only law in the area' and he hangs Billy Combs' accusing him of horse stealing' but the real reason is more likely that Combs had been paying undue attention to Rawlss teenage wife."--Publisher's website. "Shadow of a Lobo is the story of Cliff Jenson' a mercantile store-owner in Palisade who's having some trouble."--Publisher's website.

Writer Cari North thought she knew all there was to know about plot twists--until she stumbled across her ex-fianc,̌ Lance Morgan, digging a shallow grave in the Louisiana woods. After one horrifying moment of shared recognition, Cari knew her life hinged upon whether she could outrun Lance and the hurricane-spawned tornado that was barreling down on their heels.

Rusty Ingraham, friend of former cop and prosecutor Dismas Hardy, disappeared leaving behind a murdered woman and a houseboat splattered with blood. Hardy must find out if Ingraham is dead.