The Hog Ranch near Hillville, Iowa, is a notorious place. All kinds of illegal 'business' prospers there. It's a known hideout for the criminal element, and its proximity to Omaha is a major plus for the goings-on inside - and outside as well. The sturdy old log structure sits along the shoreline of the Missouri River; that mighty waterway flows just steps outside the back door and provides a good place to dispose of dead bodies. Set in the middle of the 1950's, the tale of Hurricane Kingdom - who seems (at first) a minor character in the entire scheme of things - twists and forks along the...

Set in Eugene, Oregon, this cozy mystery follows a young detective who lives between the hippie world he grew up in and the almost equally 'outsider' world of live theater. The small city of Eugene is situated in the Willamette River Valley, a lushly green place about fifty miles from Pacific Ocean beaches toward the west, and the Cascade Mountain range that towers in the east. The story deals with greed and avarice and death, all wrapped in the emerald beauty of nature and the unnatural aura of human nature as it pursues the goal that sets us apart from the rest of the creatures who inhabit...

Judge Willard Stevens has been murdered in the Hillville Iowa Public Library It is a new scandal that electrifies everybody in town A thrilling act of this kind seems to be what everybody has been needing to get their blood running faster. No one cares about the crooked Justice; his death seems to be a righteous judgement for his many sins, but to have him executed with a knife in the sacred halls of the kindly old Library is a blow that nobody expects. The Starfire men, always ready to give a hand to the bumbling sheriff of Bogger County, are on the scene as soon as they get the call, and...