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In this third Meg Pennington novel, A Deliberate Lie, Nancy Churchill weaves a tale of lies, love, money, and murder.

Meg is financially suffering from her new private investigator business when Blaze Jenkins walks in and hires her to find her illegitimate, thirty-year-old daughter. With a huge retainer in hand, Meg soon discovers that Blaze is still involved in a forty-year affair with the husband of Arizona's most prominent citizen, a woman driven by greed and power.

When Blaze is told she is dying of cancer, she tells her lover about their daughter. Blaze is found...

She may have gotten away once...but Elliot Spencer is determined not to let it happen again. He has Meg Pennington just where he wants her: on a boat speeding down the Colorado River, in the aftermath of the deadly explosions that rocked the Oasis casino.

But could sisterly love be the antidote to his carefully planned abduction-yet again? There's Amanda, a second-year FBI agent, and Rachael, a hardened Bullhead City detective. Both are relentless in their pursuit of the dastardly serial killer, and willing to put their lives on the line to ensure Meg's well-being.

Just when...

Separated by the Colorado River are the scorching desert cities of Bullhead City, Arizona and the gambling town of Laughlin, Nevada where serial killer, El Jefe, stalks his women. Annually, El Jefe kidnaps a new victim shortly after leaving his previous years' victim in a gruesome public display. Rachael Pennington, a Bullhead Police detective, is driven to protect her city and determined to catch El Jefe. She is blindsided when he abducts her sister. The turbulent world of the Colorado River runs through the book and the lives of the Pennington sisters indelibly flow with the powerful and...

Duke University Press is pleased to announce the second edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader. The Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today s health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness, commentaries by physicians, debates about complex medical cases, and conceptually and empirically based writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities. The first edition of The Social Medicine Reader was a single volume. This significantly revised and expanded second edition...