The ever talented Ann Maxwell (who also writes as Elizabeth Lowell and A. E. Maxwell--the E is for her husband, Evan, a co-author) always provides satisfying romance. In this thrilling contemporary, Dani Warren is a textile expert who is such a dilettante she will chase a rare and mythical piece of antique silk to the most remote corners of the world...

When you say paradise, I think snakes. Maybe that’s because I live in the slice of paradise known as southern California’s Gold Coast. And maybe it’s because I spend my time killing other people’s reptiles.So I wasn’t too surprised when my ex-wife and sometime lover, Fiora Flynn, came to me because Danny, her beloved dunce of a twin brother, was in trouble...

Fiddler and Fiora: Book 5I had been on the road for weeks, trying to burn out my anger at Fiora for pulling in the FBI rather than letting me handle a case my way. Then a flat tire and a cold wind sent me into the shelter of a Santa Fe art gallery.No problem, right? A tire is a tire is a tire.Wrong again...

Fiora left me on my own for the summer. Big mistake.When you’re looking for trouble, it isn’t hard to find. Only thing unexpected was ending up in a war as old as the Bible, being fought on the fresh turf of southern California's Gold Coast.The more things change, the more they stay the same. Death is pretty much death, bright red and messy and final...

According to Maya legend, December 21, 2012, will mark the end of the world as we know it. Is it myth . . . or will their prediction become reality? Archaeologist Lina Taylor has devoted her life to studying ancient Maya artifacts, splitting her time between digs in South America and the classroom teaching college students...

According to Fiora, my dead Uncle Jake taught me more than I should know about adrenaline, smuggling, and borders.I liked it way too much.That was what drove Fiora and me apart.Lately, though, we had been doing well together. I didn’t want to see it end. Neither did she. But yesterday always comes, as Jake used to say when he was stoned...