Cirrus@Austlit

Sheriff's detective Jude Devine thought she'd left her past in Washington, D.C. When the reclusive millionaire Fabian is found murdered in Paradox Valley, a photograph of Jude's missing brother Ben is found among his possessions. Finally, Jude has the chance to solve the mystery that has stalked her since childhood.

Source: Publisher's Blurb

When a small boy is kidnapped from his home, most of Montezuma County turns out for the search. But nothing is as it seems with this case, and Detective Jude Devine soon finds herself caught up in a small-town soap opera whose players seem more interested in their 15 minutes of fame than in the fate of little Corban.

Source: Publisher's Blurb

Detective Jude Devine doesn't face too many challenges based in remote Paradox Valley. However when the body of a local teenager shows up with a stake through her heart, Jude finds herself leading an investigation no one wants to touch.

Source: Publisher's Blurb

'When documentary film-maker Blair Carroll comes home to the Melbourne, Australia apartment she has borrowed for a month, she finds a stranger, a young woman, asleep in her bed. And so begins the story of two women of very different ages, backgrounds, and experience. Cassie, who works in the offices of an escort service, finds first love in a form she never expected. And Blair, whose twenty-year relationship has just come to an end.'

Source: Midwest Book Review.