The Star Garden / Nancy E. Turner
This novel of Arizona territory pioneers draws on the true stories of the author's grandmother to continue the tale of turn-of-the-twentieth-century pioneer Sarah begun in Sarah’s quilt.

Filaree: A Novel of American Life / Marguerite Noble
This moving novel of pioneer life in Arizona is destined to become a classic. Based on the life of the author’s mother, it overturns every stereotype of western womanhood. 

Desert Cut / Betty Webb
Private Investigator, Lena Jones is hired to scout sites for a film documentary on Arizona’s Apache War.  Instead, she discovers the body of a young girl, whose death Lena just can’t let go.  Does the town of Los Perdidos still have ties to ancient practices?

Cactus Heart / Jon Talton
This is the newest David Mapstone, historian/deputy sheriff, mystery by Jon Talton. Not only are Talton’s mysteries enjoyable, you learn a great deal of Phoenix’s historical past.  But, I promise, it will not put you to sleep.

Abandoned Heart / Richard Parrish
A tour de force of domestic drama and legal suspense about a woman who refuses to be a victim.  Kate O'Dwyer is starting a new life by escaping a very bad marriage,moving with a three-year-old to Phoenix, getting a job, and falling in love with attorney Mike Fallon. She also adopts a sixteen-year-old daughter, Donna.  But Kate's serenity is shattered when young Donna's volatile past catches up with them all.

Deadly Gamble / Linda Lael Miller
She’s survived a mysterious tragedy, but Mojo Sheepshanks hasn’t quite figured out who she is or how to get on with her life. Now the wisecracking Mojo is seeing ghosts—the real, ectoplasmic kind—and turning up baffling clues to her real identity.

Blood Brother / Elliott Arnold
The romanticized story of the friendship between the Apache Chief,Cochise, and Indian Agent, Tom Jeffords.  This sympathetic portrait of the Apaches inspired first a movie and than a television series.  Remember “Broken Arrow”?

Animal Dreams / Barbara Kingsolver
Codi  Noline comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront her past. What she finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments.

Day of the Dead / J.A. Jance
For more than thirty years, the case has remained stone cold -- the brutal murder of a local Papago girl. Brandon Walker, retired sheriff of Pima County, Arizona, no longer feels he has purpose. Salvation, though, comes with an invitation to join the ranks of The Last Chance, an fraternity of former cops and forensic experts who look into unsolved murders that have baffled local law enforcement agencies. And one such case is staring Brandon in the face with cold, dead, entreating eyes -- a murder investigation that may have been mishandled by his department when he was a young lawman, a forgotten homicide in the Arizona desert.

Diana Lively is Falling Down / Sheila Curran
Diana Lively's family has lived in England forever, but now her husband, Ted, an expert on Arthurian legends, is being sent to Arizona. Diana doesn't want to go. She is certain that Phoenix is a place where scorpions run wild in the streets, black-widow spiders dangle from every ceiling, and rattlesnakes wait around every corner.

Fashionably Late / Beth Kendrick 
The youngest of four sisters, Becca Davis has always felt overshadowed by her strong-willed siblings and has always played it safe in her life, until she surprises everyone by taking a once-in-a lifetime opportunity to become a fashion designer in Los Angeles.

Forcing Amaryllis / Louise Ure
A trial consultant in Tucson, Arizona, Calla Gentry devotes her time and energy to victims in civil cases rather than criminal trials. The rape and near murder of her sister, Amaryllis, has done much more than affect Calla's career; she hides behind locked doors and jumps at shadows, a veritable victim by proxy.

Ghost Towns / Betsy Thornton
Cochise County victim advocate Chloe Newcomb embarks on her latest mystery when a Superior Court judge is murdered in the ghost town of Windy City and she is asked to notify his family, but instead of finding grieving relatives, she discovers a dysfunctional family plagued by dark secrets.

High Lonesome / Louis L'Amour
In one of his most riveting novels of adventure, America’s favorite storyteller follows the treacherous trail of an outlaw determined to make his big strike and then disappear into a new life. But can a wrong turn be made right—and can the heart of a hardened man still be moved by a second chance at happiness?