Sheriff Ray Crawford Osborn narrates the story of a time he decided to take a vacation to East Texas to escape the irritating politics in Lantz, his tiny hometown that isn't far from the state capitol, Austin. It doesn't turn out well. Osborn and his wife have barely unpacked when the sheriff is bamboozled by an old Army buddy into helping solve a fifty-year-old mystery. Big Lou, a distant relative who walked out on his family decades before, has been found dead in a derelict hotel in Texa...

After an explosive fight with her father, Crispin Leads, a talented young scholar who studies burial rituals, flees to London from an archeological dig in the Egyptian desert. There she stumbles across evidence that the fabled Curse of King Tut’s Tomb was actually an elaborate ruse to cover up ancient thefts. To dig up the truth, she returns to the burial grounds in the Valley of the Kings. There she must outwit con men, overcome lifelong insecurities, identify the true culprits behind a s...

Insecure American graduate student Crispin Leads has come to the Vatican to study burial rituals and catch up with her oldest friend, Sister Lew, historian for the Shroud of Turin. Within hours of Crispin’s arrival she witnesses a murder and is drawn into an investigation of multiple homicides. When Lew disappears, Crispin is accused of being involved. Although she doesn’t trust him, Crispin accepts the help of a young priest, Roberto Rossini. The pair stay one step ahead of the police and...