Ladies Man

DPS detective Laura Cardinal investigates homicides in small towns with limited resources. She brings justice to murder victims—and to their killers. Laura’s job description: Criminal Investigator with the Arizona Department of Public Safety. But maybe it should just say “Troubleshooter.” A terrified woman runs into a trading post in New Mexico. A man follows right on her heels and kills her in front of the woman running the trading post. And then he kills the witness. A man and his wife in a campground wake to the sound of the motorhome in the next camping space driving out in the wee hours of the morning. The people in the motorhome leave their dog behind. Outside Tucson, Arizona, a woman is found dead in a desert arroyo. Department of Public Safety Detective Laura Cardinal investigates. As more information comes in about other deaths of older women, Laura realizes there is a pattern—a disturbing one of seduction and murder.