The Last Song Dogs (Trade Ellis)

Nominated for a Shamus Award and a Barry Award, this is the story of cowgirl Trade Ellis—part Apache, part rancher, and all private eye.

Unfortunately, there's not much call for investigators on horseback. But as her twenty-fifth high-school reunion approaches, someone starts thinning the ranks of the old cheerleading squad. Trade has enough suspects to fill a yearbook: the fading beauty, the rich girl, the loser, the nerd. And someone wants her to join the cheerleading squad—in the morgue.

“The action moves briskly and is boosted by the motley cast of characters and [Sinclair] Browning’s inspired descriptions of the Southwest landscape up to the very end.”—Publishers Weekly