Strange things are happening in Prophesy County. First, Deputy Dalton Pettigrew disappears on a mysterious date in Tulsa. His sister goes to resc

Sheriff Milt Kovak's plans for a second honeymoon in Las Vegas are ruined when family problems lead to a murder.

When Mary Hudson is discovered on her kitchen floor, bludgeoned to death with a meat tenderizer, Sheriff Milt Kovak of Prophesy County, Oklahoma,

When Lois Bell, the neat, well-dressed teller at the Longbranch bank, and her family are found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in their home, t

Normally, acting sheriff Milt Kovak spends his time chasing crooks, but in this novel the tables are turned. Kovak is a suspect in the slaying of

In Prophesy County, Oklahoma, there is an alarming rise in violent deaths: unexplained suicides such as that of the wife of the police chief and

The many devoted readers of Susan Rogers Cooper's Milt Kovak mystery series have been noticed from time to time laughing out loud, even during a