Tag Archives: mystery

In Plain Sight

Posted on March 19, 2025 by smellincoffee

Saddlestring is a small town with a lot of big fish. One of those big fish, Opal Scarlett, has just been thrown in a river — or at least that’s what the sobbing drunk fisherman who threw her in the … Continue reading →

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Out of Range

Posted on March 18, 2025 by smellincoffee

Tragedy has fallen on Wyoming’s department of Game and Fish, as one of their district game wardens has been found dead, victim of a very messy suicide. Joe is asked to cover the man’s job for a few weeks, and … Continue reading →

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Trophy Hunt

Posted on March 17, 2025 by smellincoffee

Game Warden Joe Pickett’s peaceful fishing trip with his daughters is interrupted by a foul odor in the air — and following the scent, as the game warden must, leads him to an astonishing sight: the massive corpse of a … Continue reading →

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The Late Show

Posted on March 14, 2025 by smellincoffee

A few years ago Renee Ballard was an up-and-comer,  rising through the ranks at the LAPD’s detective ranks: then a supervisor sexually assaulted her, she reported it, and  soon found herself delegated to the ‘late show’.  She and her new … Continue reading →

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Winterkill

Posted on March 13, 2025 by smellincoffee

The peace of the wintry woods was shattered by rifle shots – a series of them. Game Warden Joe Pickett follows the sound and is stupefied to find the county’s leading forest service officer  massacring elk, surrounded by seven massive … Continue reading →

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Savage Run

Posted on March 11, 2025 by smellincoffee

Joe Pickett has encountered a lot of strange stuff in his so-far brief tenure as a game warden, but exploding cows is a first. The culprit here was a cow strapped with explosives, making players of Command and Conquer: Red … Continue reading →

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The Brass Verdict

Posted on March 6, 2025 by smellincoffee

Attorney Mickey Haller hasn’t been practicing law the last year or so, having been recuperating from being shot and a subsequent addiction to pain meds that could have destroyed his life. On the verge of getting back in the game, … Continue reading →

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The Death of Mrs Westaway

Posted on December 30, 2024 by smellincoffee

Hal is a working girl in a bind. She had to take over her mother’s tarot shop after she lost her to a reckless driver, and while she can usually keep her head above the water weaving stories from the … Continue reading →

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The Bookshop of Yesterdays

Posted on December 13, 2024 by smellincoffee

Miranda grew up in sunny California, but her interest in teaching history took her across the country. Now a phone call summons her back: her uncle Billy, who she’s not seen for sixteen years, has died. Returning home to see … Continue reading →

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Pride and Premeditation

Posted on July 26, 2024 by smellincoffee

Liz Bennet’s mother wants to marry her and her four sisters off, but Liz has something more interesting in mind for her life than men — most of whom, her father aside, she has little use for. She wants to … Continue reading →

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