MURDER, GREED, LOST LOVE, FOUND TREASURE and THE MEXICAN MOB. Rookie sheriff Colby Tate's first murder case draws the ex-Marine interpreter into the middle of mayhem. An old woman smothered in her favorite easy chair. Neighbors hungry to gain control of her property. A home service provider named as her sole heir. A mysterious source of income that ties her to the Mexican cartels. In this first book in the Colby Tate Mystery Series, award-winning author Allen Kent engages the reader with the same page-turning suspense and intriguing twists of plot that have made his Unit 1 thrillers national bestsellers as Sheriff Colby Tate unravels his fir case of Murder who killed Nettie Suskey.

Sheriff Colby Tate's Granny Durbin always said bad news comes in threes. When the wire mesh house of the town's eccentric squirrel whisperer, Fits Loony, is destroyed by zealots, Tate holds his breath, awaiting calamities Two and Three. But nothing can prepare him for how dramatically the other two disasters will change his life and the life of those in quiet Crayton, Missouri. The attack on Fits' cage home, a wrongful death lawsuit, and the mysterious disappearance of two local teens during a school trip to Scotland draw Tate into the murky world of the dark web, secret erotic rituals, and deadly cults. And they bring answers to a mysterious prophecy by the Webber Sisters, the Old Women of the Mountain, who read the tea leaves in their backwoods retreat in the Ozarks hills. Fans of the "Outlander" series will love "Three Degrees of Death," a suspenseful, page-turner that culminates in the rugged moors of the Scottish Highlands.

When the Tuesday morning edition of the Crayton Daily News fails to reach the breakfast tables at LeeAnn's Diner by 6:30 a.m. as it has for the past forty years, Ozarks Sheriff Colby Tate finds himself investigating the death of the paper's eccentric owner and publisher, Maury Shobe. Unprinted plates of the biweekly suggest the newsman was preparing to break two headline stories, one that would ruin an influential businessman and a major community development project, and one with critical details yet to be revealed. While Tate and new wife, Police Chief Grace Torres, wade through a mire of Shobe family squabbles and county disputes to determine who might want the publisher dead, two hunters discover the remains of a newborn baby girl hidden off a trail in the Missouri woods. Tate's newest deputy, Brooke Beckett, is assigned to lead the child murder investigation, forcing the young officer to confront a dark secret from her own past. With Tate challenged in an upcoming election by another deputy in his department, Beckett begins to openly question whether her boss is as tough on crime as he needs to be to lead. Her concern becomes a campaign issue when, only weeks before the election, clues lead Tate and Grace into Canada's maritime provinces on what his rival claims is a taxpayer-funded junket. Who Murdered Maury Shobe and the forgotten baby in the Mark Twain Forest? Will the answers cost Tate the election and be the Ozarks sheriff's own final edition? Though written as a stand-alone mystery, fans of Colby Tate will find "Final Edition" a satisfying and suspense-filled next step in this down-home mystery series.