Lois Gilbert
Lost in the Gila

When forensic anthropologist Kate Donovan receives an invitation to work on a mysterious site, she seizes the chance to join Dr Adam Richter, the world's most renowned archaeologist. Richter's discovery ranks as one of the greatest finds of the twenty-first century: monumental evidence of the lost culture of Teotihuacan, unearthed in the USA. But Dr Richter has been missing for several days. and after weeks of excavation, the crew realises a treasure greater than any pharaoh's has vanished into the wilderness.

Norma Tadlock Johnson
Donna Rose and the Roots of Evil

The community of Cedar Harbor is torn apart when police chief William Donniker dies suddenly. The poison monks­hood was the cause of death. When monkshood held in the police evidence room goes missing, capable policeman Jake Santorini is arrested. Donna Galbreath and Cyrus Bates are drawn into the investigation when the department is taken over by a sheriff convinced the murderer is behind bars. They may not survive to find out unless they can trace the roots of long-ago actions before the killer strikes again.

In the summer and fall of 1949, Kansas Sheriff James Early investigates the heinous murder of a school teacher and pursues a bank robber as intent on remaining free as Early is on capturing him. Early's Fall is more than a first-rate police procedural that will keep readers turning pages. It's also the story of a lawman whose life outside the job is coming apart as his wife, pregnant with their first child, sinks into a mental illness only vaguely understood by doctors of the time.