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Who's Spider Latham? Think a cross between John Wayne and Miss Marple. Spider finds himself at loose ends. He's no longer a deputy, no longer in his childhood home, and no longer sure where he fits in. Than an eminent scientist falls to his death from the cliffs above town. The circumstances are suspicious--and all those with a motive for murder are house guests of the Latham's. It's Deputy Sheriff Toby Flint's case, but as everyone knows, Deputy Flint couldn't detect his way out of a paper bag. Helping him, Spider finds himself up to his neck in conjectures and clues until someone knocks him out and dumps him into Peek-a-boo Canyon during a rainstorm. Then he's up to his neck in water. Feverishly working with Toby, Spider's intent on unsnarling the mystery before someone--one of his house guests?--makes another try on his life.
About the Author
A native of New Mexico and mother of seven, Liz Adair lives in southern Utah with Derrill, her husband of 50 years.
A late bloomer, Liz published her first mystery (The Lodger) just as AARP started sending invitations to join. After writing three in the Spider Latham series, Liz moved into romantic suspense with The Mist of Quarry Harbor.
Liz took a break from suspense to write Counting the Cost, a novel based on family history. The book won the 2009 Whitney Award and was a finalist for the Willa Award and Arizona Publisher Association's Glyph Award.
Liz returned to romantic suspense with Cold River and feels writing in that genre doing so is a service project. "I remember when I was a young mother with all those kids and a slender budget," she says. "I was so grateful for books that let me go places and meet people who carried on adult conversations That's what I want to write--cheap vacations."
Liz moved from Northwest Washington to Kanab, Utah in 2012--she had gone to high school there--and something about living in the high desert again made her decide to bring Spider Latham back and set the mystery in Kanab. Both experiences--returning to Kanab and bringing back Spider--were like coming home. "Look for more in the Spider Latham series," she says.
