Spanish Peaks Library District

Two people fall in love while running from the police. Fiona Burkenhalter, creator of dolls, and Ace Montgomery, inventor of a mechanical alligator, first met under the auspices of a Florida businessman, only to find themselves falsely accused of his murder.

Nearing the end of his life, financier Harry Wainwright journeys to a rustic fishing camp in Maine and leaves a profound legacy for a haunted young man, a Vietnam draft evader, and a spirited young woman who holds a key to the past.

Hannah Smith is tall, strong, and formidable and the descendant of generations of tough Florida women. She makes her living as a fishing guide, but her friends, neighbors, and clients also know her as an uncommonly resourceful woman with a keen sense of justice - someone who can't be bullied. That's why so many come to her with their problems. Her methods of meting out justice can be a bit unorthodox, and those on the receiving end often wind up very...

"A wonderful Montana mystery starring fly fisherman-cum-detective Sean Stranahan, for fans of C. J. Box and Craig Johnson. Wolves howl as a riderless horse returns at sunset to the Culpepper Dude Ranch in the Madison Valley. The missing woman, Nanika Martinelli, is better known as the Fly Fishing Venus, a red-haired river guide who lures clients the way dry flies draw trout. As Sheriff Martha Ettinger follows hoof tracks in the snow, she finds...

" A fishing guide and part-time investigator, Hannah Smith is a tall, strong Florida woman descended from many generations of the same. But the problem before her now is much older even than that. Five hundred years ago, Spanish conquistadors planted the first orange seeds in Florida, but now the whole industry is in trouble. The trees are dying at the root, weakened by infestation and genetic manipulation, and the only solution might be somehow,...

After her parent double suicide, Grace Hammond Barnett travels to a family home in upstate New York that she never knew existed. She finds a local fishing guide who's family history is bound to hers, and to a childhood tragedy that Grace has worked hard to forget.