Lonni Lees

In a novella set in the art district of Tucson, one I know well that has a funky old town feel to it Lees does well to capture the feel of Tucson. Shops come and go, galleries move around yet the artisans of Tucson are portrayed well here as a fine mix of down-on-their-heel hippies to the wealthy patron or two. Throw in some sordid sexually innuendo and a murder and we have a nice little murder that Maggie Reardon, a Tucson police detective, engages herself in, and watch how the relationships tangle, oh my!
An entertaining and fast read for one of those monsoon days in Tucson when the weather keeps you indoors for an afternoon.… (más)

In a novella set in the art district of Tucson, one I know well that has a funky old town feel to it Lees does well to capture the feel of Tucson. Shops come and go, galleries move around yet the artisans of Tucson are portrayed well here as a fine mix of down-on-their-heel hippies to the wealthy patron or two. Throw in some sordid sexually innuendo and a murder and we have a nice little murder that Maggie Reardon, a Tucson police detective, engages herself in, and watch how the relationships tangle, oh my!
An entertaining and fast read for one of those monsoon days in Tucson when the weather keeps you indoors for an afternoon.… (más)

Police Detective Maggie Reardon is alone again. Just when she thought she might have found Mr. Right her captain called her in and put the kibosh on the whole kit-and-caboodle. Rocco was, after all, a witness in the murder of the proprietor of the Mosaic Gallery, the case that she just solved.

Sure, she has blown her chance at romance, but Reardon was delighted to find out that Rocco was willing to place a hiatus on their budding romance until the case went to trial. Buoyed with the notion that someone was willing to wait for, her she set out on the next grisly discovery, the body of a man found discovered in the javelina pit at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.

Always determined to send waves through the department, the newly minted female detective in the Tucson Police Department challenged the findings of the senior officer on duty, who wrote off the body as an accidental fall. When her leads show they had a victim with no identification, multiple state tag numbers in his trunk and no witnesses, she has her work cut out for her.

By the time she puts together the unidentified body with an apparent runaway, skulking in a cheap south-side motel, she is able to help solve not just a missing persons case but prove the cold-blooded killing of the corpse in the cactus.

Lees’ fact-filled little novellas, featuring Detective Maggie Reardon, are fast becoming a favorite read of mystery fans in the Old Pueblo she features, Tucson, Arizona.

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