Now a new detective in the San Diego Sheriff's Department, Roxanne Prescott ("Guns and Roses") is part of the team investigating the mysterious murder of the beloved Sam Brennan. The founder and head of Adoption Central, Sam spent his working life creating families and his spare time collecting the toys that represented the love he hadn't received in his deprived childhood. Who could have wanted to hurt the man who did such wonderful things for so many grateful people? Roxanne must wrestle the shadow of her own past tragedy still hanging over her, along with rookie nerves and a killer determined to hide a different past. Taffy Cannon is the author of fifteen novels, including "Convictions: A Novel of the Sixties" and five travel mysteries: "Guns and Roses," "Murder Will Travel," "Murder Pans Out," "Fall Into Death," and "Keys to Death."California State Bar attorney investigator Nan Robinson is featured in "A Pocketful of Karma," "Tangled Roots," and "Class Reunions Are Murder." Her stand-alone Southern California mysteries are "Open Season on Lawyers," "Paradise Lost," and "Blood Matters." She completed "The Tumbleweed Murders," begun by her late colleague Rebecca Rothenberg, and wrote an Academy Award-nominated short film, "Doubletalk."Her nonfiction books are "Caregiving 101" and "SibCare: The Trip You Never Planned to Take."Taffy Cannon is a Chicago native and graduate of Duke University. She has lived in southern California for most of her adult life and was honored as Carlsbad Citizen of the Year for managing the Friends Bookstore at the Carlsbad City Library.
