Dead in the Scrub [Mass Market Paperback]

YA --Twice-widowed, no-nonsense Shirley McClintock, stalking a wounded deer to end its suffering, stumbles over human bones scattered in the Colorado scrub. That find results in two more murders, a kidnapping, and the unveiling of a savings and loan scam. McClintock is an older version of the recent crop of gutsy young female detectives and will appeal to mystery readers.
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Struggling to put a wounded deer out of its misery, intrepid rancher Shirley McClintock stumbles over a human skeleton half-buried in autumn leaves. Then she discovers a second murder, accomplished with the same arrow that had pierced the body of the deer. The crimes are apparently unrelated, but McClintock catches the same rotten stench in both. Only proof is lacking, but that, when she finds it, cannot be used. Not without putting the person nearest her heart into mortal danger.