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Authors: Mike Markel
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Idaho, with his wife.
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BIG SICK HEART (Book
1)
Bad decisions have finally caught up
with police detective Karen Seagate. Her drinking has destroyed her marriage
and hurt her job performance, and the chief is looking for any excuse to fire
her. Still, she and her new partner, a young Mormon guy who seems to have
arrived from another century or another planet, intend to track down whoever
killed Arlen Hagerty, the corrupt leader of Soul Savers. Clawing his way to the
top, Hagerty created plenty of enemies, including his wife, his mistress, his
debate partner, the organization’s founder, and the politician he was
blackmailing. When Seagate causes a car crash that sends a young girl to
Intensive Care, the chief thinks he finally has his opportunity. But even the
chief can’t believe what Seagate does when she finally catches the killer.
DEVIATIONS (Book 2)
Former police detective Karen
Seagate is drinking herself to oblivion and having dangerous sex with losers
from the bar when the new police chief tracks her down. The brutal rape and murder
of a state senator by a lone-wolf extremist gives Seagate a chance to return to
the department, but the new chief has set down some rules, and Seagate is not
good with rules. At this point, she is just trying to stay alive. With nothing
left to lose and nobody left to trust—not even her partner, Ryan—Seagate goes
off the grid to find the killer. She doesn’t care that she will be fired again.
She has much bigger problems, now that she has been captured inside the
neo-Nazi compound.
THE BROKEN SAINT (Book
3)
Seagate and Miner investigate the
murder of Maricel Salizar, a young Filipino exchange student at Central Montana
State. The most obvious suspect is her boyfriend, who happens to have gang
connections. And then there’s Amber, a fellow student who’s obviously incensed
at Maricel for a sexual indiscretion involving Amber’s boyfriend. But the
evidence keeps leading Seagate and Miner back to the professor, an LDS bishop
who hosted her in his dysfunctional home. Seagate takes it in stride that the
professor can’t seem to tell the truth about his relationship with the victim,
but her devout partner, Ryan Miner, believes that a high-ranking fellow Mormon who
violates a sacred trust deserves special punishment.
THREE-WAYS (Book 4)
When grad student Austin
Sulenka is found strangled, nude on his bed, the first question for Seagate and
Miner is whether it was an auto-asphyxiation episode gone bad. Evidence strewn
around his small apartment suggests that he spent his last night with at least
different women. Each of them and their other partners had motives to kill the
philandering graduate student. As Seagate and her partner try to unravel the
complicated couplings, she finds herself in a three-way relationship that
threatens to destroy her own fragile sobriety.
FRACTURES (Book 5)
The fracking boom in
eastern Montana has minted a handful of new millionaires and one billionaire:
Lee Rossman, the president of Rossman Mining and the leading philanthropist in
the small city of Rawlings. Rossman is the last person Detectives Seagate and
Miner expected to discover dead in the alley next to a strip club. Later, when
Lee’s son is found out at the rigs, with significant internal injuries,
numerous broken bones, and a belly full of fracking liquid, the detectives know
the two crimes are related but can’t figure out how. Seagate and Miner must try
to solve a mystery awash in enormous fortunes, thwarted ambitions, and grudges
both old and new.
THE REVEAL (Book 6)
Many citizens in the small college town of Rawlings, Montana, are
unsurprised to learn that Virginia Rinaldi, the world-famous sociologist, was
murdered. A few are secretly pleased. Her political enemies knew her as an
ideologue who used insults, threats, and blackmail to promote her unpopular
social views. When Detectives Seagate and Miner begin their investigation, they
discover that a local prostitute had recently moved into the professor’s house,
angering Rinaldi’s college-age son. And when the community learns that the
prostitute made a lesbian porn video with one of Rinaldi’s students, tensions
on campus erupt, leading to more bloodshed. Drawn into a horrifying world of
sexual violence and exploitation, Seagate devises a plan to flush out the
killer. The plan appears to be on track—until Seagate unwittingly jeopardizes
the life of her partner, Ryan Miner.
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