Death at Artesian Springs: A Terry Crow Mystery

Terry Crow's morning begins with loose cattle, a ruined breakfast, a burning school bus, and a fleeing drug courier.Then things get strange.Six valuable cloned heifers are discovered dead in a remote Idaho blowout, arranged in a precise geometric pattern with almost no evidence explaining how they got there.By the next morning, the cattle have vanished.The crime scene has been burned.And somebody is shooting at Terry from across the desert.The investigation pulls him far beyond an ordinary livestock case and into missing evidence, generations-old grudges, political power, covert government resources, a murdered senator's daughter, and a second criminal operation hidden beneath the first.As Terry struggles to separate two overlapping mysteries, veterinarian Dr. Vickie Southwick moves from trusted investigator to something considerably more important in his life.With his father Don, his fellow officers, and Vickie beside him, Terry must uncover why six dead cattle matter enough for powerful people to kill over - and why someone else seems determined to recover something Terry doesn't even know he has.Because sometimes the hardest puzzle isn't finding the pieces.It's realizing you're looking at two different puzzles at once.