Davie County, carved out of Rowan County and named for a Revolutionary War hero in 1836, boasts a rich history. The Great Wagon Road brought many settlers to the area in the 18th century, including Daniel Boone's parents--buried in Joppa Cemetery in Mocksville. The National Historical Register includes 16 county sites, among them the Cooleemee Plantation, home to the Hairston family since 1817. Davie County's agricultural heritage is complemented by its progressing commercial and retail de...

Samantha Harrington, a reporter for a fading Phoenix newspaper, is assigned to write a story about a local man bequeathing nearly a million dollars to cancer research. When Samantha learns the man, a non-smoker, died suddenly from lung cancer, she smells a bigger story. She soon learns that not one, but two cancer clusters have been identified in the Phoenix area, both located near large Phoenix corporations. Are chemicals from one of them escaping into the air, the soil, or the water? Sam...

DeeAnn Dawson is fifty-two, divorced, a mother, a grandmother, and an office assistant at Copper Investigations, a private investigation firm.She's also a murder suspect.When DeeAnn finds her boss, Gary Copper, dead in the office she shared with him, she becomes Phoenix Police Detective Colter Wyatt's prime suspect. After she inherits Gary's business and everything else he owned, she becomes Detective Wyatt's only suspect.Why would Gary leave everything to ...

Cameron Branch died from injuries sustained in a horrific car crash on an Arizona freeway. Michael Branch, one of the wealthiest men in Arizona, claims his daughter was murdered and enlists Luke Palmer to find her killer. But working the case means Luke will cross paths with Detective Roberta Johannsen, who harbors a strong resentment towards him, dating back to Luke's time on the police force.Luke's problems get worse when Samantha Harrington asks him to help her find the maniac w...

Dana Porter was living a quiet life in Payson, Arizona until the untimely death of her mother. When reading through her mother's journals, she learns the man she called 'Dad' all her life is not her father, but her stepfather. Her biological father, Joseph Parnell, is on death row for setting a fire in 1995 that killed Sally and Patrick Marshall. Why would her mother keep this a secret? Is it possible she's related to a murderer?Ben Thomas is a photographer working for the same mag...

ARIZONA MYSTERIES - 3 Novel Box Set:YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM ME:When a woman in Denver is brutally murdered, Detective Cole Jameson lands the case. It's not long before he realizes he's dealing with a serial killer. When the killings suddenly and unexplainably stop, he decides to leave Denver and return to his hometown, hoping to put the case he couldn't solve behind him.Soon after he arrives in Phoenix, Sara Jenkins, a friend of Cole's ...

Samantha Harrington, a reporter for a fading Phoenix newspaper, is assigned to write a story about a local man bequeathing nearly a million dollars to cancer research. When Samantha learns the man, a non-smoker, died suddenly from lung cancer, she smells a bigger story. She soon learns that not one, but two cancer clusters have been identified in the Phoenix area, both located near large Phoenix corporations. Are chemicals from one of them escaping into the air, the soil, or the water? Sam...

Old photographs offer subjective and evocative evidence of the way we lived and worked in years past. Images of America: Mocksville shares the photographic story of the development of the town of Mocksville and its people to the mid-1900s. Named the seat of newly created Davie County in 1839, the town of Mocksville, originally known as Mocks Old Field, existed as early as the Revolutionary War. Photographs support documentary evidence of various trades as well as agricultural pursuits. Not...

When a woman in Denver is brutally murdered, Detective Cole Jameson lands the case. It's not long before he realizes he's dealing with a serial killer. After investigating several murder scenes and going several weeks with very little sleep, he is no closer to finding the murderer than he was after the first death. When the killings suddenly and unexplainably stop, he decides to leave Denver and return to his hometown, hoping to put the case he couldn't solve behind him.Soon after ...