Aroostine Higgins

Series · 6 books · 2014-2020

By Melissa F. Miller

Books in series

Critical Vulnerability

A Sasha McCandless Companion Novel

2014

Assistant U.S. Attorney Aroostine Higgins' most critical vulnerability is exposed in this smart, gripping series-starter from a USA Today bestseller. Aroostine's gearing up to prosecute a major bribery trial ... one that could make or break her career in the Department of Justice's elite Criminal Division. But everything's going wrong. By the time Aroostine realizes her string of bad luck is anything but random, the stakes are far higher than the outcome of a high-profile court case. The life of the only man she's ever loved hangs in the balance. Now, it's personal.

Chilling Effect

2015

Investigating an embezzlement scheme at a Native American casino tears federal prosecutor Aroostine Higgins away from a romantic getaway with her husband, Joe. Dispatched by her superior in the hopes that her Native American roots will win trust in a community wary of outsiders, Aroostine goes on high alert when she finds her would-be informant executed in his home. Money skimming, murder, and rumors of stolen military weapons are linked to someone on the reservation, and Aroostine butts heads with tribal authorities bent on solving the crime and doling out punishment on their own terms. After narrowly escaping a deadly ambush, she and Joe must somehow protect each other and another whistle-blower from a killer’s bullet. She’ll have to connect with the heritage she left behind in order to track down this ruthless killer.

Calculated Risk

2017

Aroostine Higgins returns in CALCULATED RISK, the third book in the Aroostine Higgins Novel Series by USA TODAY Bestselling Author Melissa F. Miller. A woven basket of unexplained provenance. A missing socialite. A desecrated corpse. For a sleepy Southern Louisiana town, Belle Rue was home to an awful lot of secrets. Office of Tribal Affairs Liasion Aroostine Higgins came to Belle Rue with a simple mission: track down the weaver a one-of-a-kind example of Native American basketry. But the when her trail collides with a homicide investigation undertaken by the local police chief and coroner, Aroostine and her husband Joe find themselves in the middle of a scandal that spans generations.

Called Home

2018

With nothing left to lose, Aroostine becomes a relentless tracker who will stop at nothing to find a missing girl in this gripping thriller from USA Today bestseller Melissa F. Miller.After her husband dies in a car accident, Aroostine wants to be left alone to mourn. But when a teenager goes missing and the authorities write her off as a rebellious runaway, an old friend calls in a favor for the girl’s desperate mother.Still reeling from Joe’s death, Aroostine sets off on a cross-country hunt that puts her in the cross-hairs of a shadowy organization with violent ties as she searches for a girl who has very good reasons to want to stay lost.

Crossfire Creek

2019

A mother and her eleven-year-old daughter vanish from their Crossfire Creek home. The girl is vulnerable. The mother, impulsive. Tracker Aroostine Higgins is called in to find them, fast, before they're hurt ... or worse.Aroostine assumes her Rue Jackman alias, packs up her truck, and hits the road with her dog Rufus by her side to do what she does Find the missing.Unofficially, under the radar, and not necessarily entirely legally.Meanwhile, Special Agent Patton Banks of the National Park Services Investigative Services Branch is tasked with solving the execution-style murder of a low-level criminal.Officially, entirely legally, and as quickly as possible.When Aroostine's search gets tangled up with Patton's investigation, the collision sets off a barrage ... and she's caught in the crossfire.Don't miss this fifth-in-series thriller from USA Today bestselling author Melissa F. Miller.

Clingmans Dome

2020

Tracker Aroostine Higgins and Special Agent Patton Banks, a criminal investigator with the National Park Services Investigative Services Branch, have a strained relationship.   He doesn’t trust her, and she doesn’t agree with his by-the-book approach. They’re far from an investigative dream team. But when Aroostine picks up the trail of a fugitive during a visit to Clingmans Dome, the pair is thrown into an investigation together. Alan Steven Reynolds is a notorious jewel thief. He and four accomplices pulled off the largest single heist in history. Three of the men went to prison, Reynolds went on the run, and the fifth finagled a non-guilty verdict. Now, Roo and Patton must comb the dense forests of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in search of the jewel thief—and the jewels. Reynolds isn’t only running from the law, though. As the investigators track the wanted man, their every move is also being tracked by someone with the resources and the resolve to exact the ultimate revenge. Aroostine and Patton need to bring Reynolds in before his old partner brings him down, along with anyone else he finds in the woods. Clingmans Dome is the sixth book in USA Today bestselling author Melissa F. Miller’s smart, fast-paced Aroostine Higgins series.

Author

Melissa F. Miller

Author · 61 books

USA Today bestselling author Melissa F. Miller is a former attorney who traded the practice of law for the art of telling stories. She is the author of more than two dozen bestselling legal thrillers, suspense thrillers, romantic comedic mysteries, and forensic thrillers. All her work shares two common threads: pulse-pounding, tightly plotted action and smart, unlikely heroines and heroes. Her books feature such diverse protagonists as a pint-sized attorney and mother of twins who’s trained in Krav Maga; a Native American government investigator who relies on her heritage to guide her when the chips are down; a Buddhist forensic pathologist who refuses to harm any living creature; and a trio of twenty-something sisters just starting out in their careers who find murder and mayhem wherever they go. She's edited medical, scientific, and technical journals, as well as educational books; clerked for a federal judge; worked for major international law firms; and run a two-person law firm with her lawyer husband. Now, powered by coffee, she writes crime fiction and homeschools her children. When she's not writing, and sometimes when she is, Melissa travels around the country in an RV with her husband, three kids, and their cat. To find out when Melissa releases a new book, visit www.melissafmiller.com and sign up for her email newsletter.