The Palm At The End Of The Mind

A self-generating electric car, a butterfly garden, a murder, a shooting, an inventor missing, a love affair but no one is sure with whom. A So-Cal mystery full of danger, hints of espionage, romance in this second Samantha Howe book. It takes place all over--Palm Springs, Pasadena,L.A.,Laguna, Del Mar.

Samantha moves to Palm Springs as a P.I. and signs on with the detective firm of Tobias S. Green. She is an organic gardener with an urban farm where she works between cases, a place where she goes to garden and to ponder clues. In this book,contradictions abound and trouble keeps coming at Samantha. She follows the random clues to the end.

The plot thickens and most of the characters begin to think it may never be solved as one crime muddies the solution of another. Random murders. Common links. In the end, the detectives find their way.