Attractive women keep doing risqué things in Redd's world, but none of them are trying to seduce him this time. One of them is missing. Another is having an affair with her sister's husband. The husband's wife is a Chilean aristocrat whose reckless young daughter from a previous marriage has been found murdered at their estate in Virginia horse country.All evidence points to the stepbrother of the victim, but he swears he didn't do it and fails to reveal family scandals that might ...

Redd is baffled by the number of hot women who keep playing starring roles in his investigations into unusual cases for his FBI buddy, Wendell.Marta is a wealthy, newly-local charmer who needs help finding both her son and her second husband who have gone missing in Europe. Keeping her focused on the task at hand tests Redd's professional boundaries as she presses him for more protection and a little fun on the side.And a commitment to a prestigious law firm in a nearby tow...

Redd is still cleaning up the details of a kidnapping last autumn when his contact at the FBI asks him to investigate a series of staged accidents and killings that threaten to set off a feud between crime families.A few days later, a long-time book club friend confides in Redd about an unfinished letter he found buried in a trunk in his closet. It was written years ago, just before his brother was discovered drowned with weights around his ankles. Did the note confirm suicide, or ...

When the body of a friend, the deputy sheriff in the neighboring county, is found dead in his car, his widow calls Sheriff Redd Herring to help. But when Redd's investigation takes a dive into international territory, he quickly discovers that his routine procedures won't suffice.Did a liaison with a high-priced hooker go fatally wrong? Was the deputy sheriff dealing drugs? Or is something more ominous lurking?Redd had barely surfaced from a more local murder case-albeit on...

Redd is transitioning out of his job as sheriff into a new role. He's just taken on a special case for the FBI when four men are killed at a county fair at the same time that three well-behaved high school girls go missing.Abundant and unusual clues have been left behind, but will they help to solve the crime or just lead to confusion and dead ends?

Sheriff Reddford Herring had no idea that the first coffin wouldn't be the last.Discovered in the predawn light-and blocking the train tracks-that first coffin was screwed shut and too heavy for one person to move. Morbid hoax? Fraternity prank?More importantly, who-or what-was inside, and why?By lifting the lid on that first coffin, Redd Herring-seasoned, widowed, and lonely-would uncover a mystery of conflicting leads and ethical compromises, one that could jeopar...