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The fourth and latest mystery featuring Gorman's beloved Iowa detective, Sam McCain, finds Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon coming to town and McCain enlisted by Judge Esme Whitney to prevent the population of Black River Falls from looking like "a bunch of hillbillies." Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

No one is surprised when a local hot rod hero slams into a bridge at ninety miles per hour, but when his brake cable turns up cleanly severed, lawyer and part-time investigator Sam McCain is on the case.

When a slightly retarded fifteen-year-old girl dies on a school trip, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and his friend psychologist Alex Delaware are stumped. There's no sign of a struggle and no evidence of sexual assault. Just an innocent young girl -- dead. Alex finds himself ensnared in one of the most menacing cases of his career.

In Colorado at the end of the 19th century, a counterfeiting ring poses a threat to the economy. Acting on direct orders from the president, Secret Service Agent Dev Mallory is the man charged to take them down--or die trying.

It's 1963. The equal rights movement is in full swing. While no one is marching in Black River Falls, Iowa, attorney Sam McCain's sleepy heartland town is showing signs of racial unease. And then the bodies turn up, one black, one white.

Leo Guild has barely accepted the job of guarding a man who's the target of death threats when his client is shot and killed. The suspected gunman is a crazy mountain man named Kriker who lives by his own rules in an encampment outside of town. The sheriff claims that Guild's client and Kriker pulled off a bank job together; but Guild doesn't trust the law in this town. He decides to visit Kriker himself and hear what he has to say.

Struggling to atone for his participation in the Civil War, Father Pete Madsen has devoted his life to the church, but his faith is sorely tested when his best friend in murdered by the depraved Tom Rattigan and the murdered man's daughter sets out to seek revenge.

First David Egan is charged with the murder of the seriously disturbed daughter of the wealthy Griffin family. Then he is killed after someone tampers with his car brakes. Private eye Sam McCain investigates and finds plenty of suspects.

Facing internal and external resistance during a hostile reelection campaign, political consultant Dev Conrad confronts bigger challenges when a campaign worker is murdered behind election headquarters and Dev is implicated in the crime.

Caught in the middle of a dispute over a hippie commune that has moved into Black River Falls, lawyer and private investigator Sam McCain doubts claims that a troubled commune member is responsible for a local murder.