Grace Fully: An Arizona Borderlands Mystery

“This series is developing nicely – and I’m along for the ride as a forensic botanist helps solve murder in the Arizona borderlands. Loved this western mystery. Really liked this female sleuth. Can’t wait for the next one!”
- Marcy Birdweather, Marcy’s Musings

A recently retired schoolteacher, Grace Vieumilliers is busy adjusting to life as a newlywed and deputy sheriff specializing in forensic botany, when one of her best friends is found murdered on a hiking trail. In this, their third Arizona Borderland Mystery, Carl and Jane Bock once again take us to the grasslands and savannahs of southernmost Arizona, where Grace works with others in the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Department to search for the killer. Suspects include a jealous husband, a medical doctor operating a shady clinic on both sides of the Mexican border, and two brothers with murky backgrounds who own a nearby French restaurant. Much to the distress of her husband, Grace doesn’t stick to her usual laboratory work. Instead she puts herself directly in harm’s way, only to discover that the murderer was driven by a motive as old as time.

Carl and Jane Bock are retired Professors of Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Carl received his PhD in Zoology from the University of California at Berkeley, while Jane holds three degrees in Botany, a B.A. from Duke, an MA from the University of Indiana, and a PhD from Berkeley. Carl is an ornithologist and conservation biologist. Jane is a plant ecologist and an internationally recognized expert in the use of plant evidence in criminal investigations. Now largely retired from academic life, the Bocks have turned their creative efforts toward fiction writing, and are co-authors of two ongoing series, the Arizona Borderlands Mysteries and the Florida Swamp Guide Mysteries.