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Sam Sawyer is a fishing guide and part-time sleuth living in the Florida Keys. Sam’s life takes an unexpected turn when he discovers a pair of shoes lying next to a huge crocodile on a sandy bank deep in the everglades, and somebody’s feet are in the shoes. Sam discovers they belonged to a woman called Mable who lived reclusively on an isolated key in Florida Bay. But how did her shoes and feet end up back in the glades, and who was responsible?

A recently retired schoolteacher, Grace Vieumilliers is busy adjusting to life as a newlywed and deputy sheriff specializing in forensic botany, when one of her best friends is found murdered on a hiking trail. In this, their third Arizona Borderland Mystery, Carl and Jane Bock once again take us to the grasslands and savannahs of southernmost Arizona, where Grace works with others in the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Department to search for the killer.

Deputy Sheriff Calvin Creede mostly works alone in one corner of Arizona’s smallest county. His job had been a simple one until the day a flash flood exposes the rusted remains of an old pickup. A body in the truck turns out to be the long-lost son of a prominent ranching family, and forensic evidence shows it was murder. Deputy Creede faces a 20-year-old cold case with too many suspects, from an ex-girlfriend and jealous family members to drug lords and looters of archaeological sites.