Richard Mueller: 4 books

Death on the Prairie, first in the series of Glen Gleason mysteries. Glen is a man who is dragooned into running for county sheriff against a brutal deputy who may have murdered his predecessor. Glen has to reconcile the shocks of dealing with crime and violence with the desire to spend a quiet life...

Sheriff Glen Gleason’s life has gone horribly wrong. Now, on the edge of a complete breakdown, he’s suddenly pulled back from the brink of the abyss to solve a horrible multiple murder — an entire family slaughtered by a fiend who has disappeared without a trace. Fighting his way past interference...

When the body of an Armani-suited wiseguy drops from the sky into Cornflower County, it sets in motion an investigation that pulls Sheriff Gleason into a mob conflagration. From a simulated war in Florida, to murder and revenge in Iowa, crime will take a terrible toll on the lives of Glen, Anne and Kat before it thunders to an explosive conclusion.

Roy Felker is with the National Security Agency. Pascia Tepec is a cop who works with dead people. It’s only natural that romance would blossom while they’re fighting to stop Los Angeles from being engulfed by the army of murderous, self-replicating aliens that’s sweeping down on the city from...