The Truck Comes on Thursday (Loni Wagner Western Mystery, #1)

The loss of her partner/lover in a friendly fire shooting sends LA police detective Loni Wagner running back to the quiet, safe life she remembered in a small Southern Arizona town. There she joins the Arizona Highway Patrol, assuming that she can stay out of trouble driving her night shift on the peaceful desert roads. And she’s right except for a plane wreck in a graveyard, a serial rapist, a kidnapping, a murder, a freeway pileup during a dust storm, a tornado, dead bodies, drug runners, and human smugglers. And she thought the streets of LA were dangerous. But it’s what takes place in the light of day that has her life in total disarray as things keep happening in the small town where everybody knows everybody else's business and where things keep coming back to bite her in the ass. She not only works out of the same police station with high school enemies, she has a red-neck sexist police chief who loads her down with jobs beyond her shift that leave her exhausted and sleep deprived. And, on top of her need to help an old friend with troubles he doesn’t even know he has, she adds her Native Indian grandparents to her worries: her grandmother is not well, and cattle rustling and vandalism on their ranch is about to break them. Still mourning the death of her partner, Loni makes an effort to connect with other women she finds intriguing—Jenny, the art teacher, and Tory, the new town veterinarian while she also attempts to avoid dealing with Dorothea, her old high school interest. But it’s Lola, the dispatcher at work that Loni believes is straight, who really occupies her mind, the one who challenges Loni to accept what is and to understand what coming home really means. Lesbian Fiction - Mystery Life sizzles for Highway Patroller Loni Wagner in a small Arizona desert town during the long summer nights. She sees it all-a plane wreck, freeway pileups, and dead bodies as she investigates murders involving human smugglers, drug runners, and her old friend Carl. During the day she faces high school enemies, a red-neck sexist police chief who gives her unwanted jobs, and worries about her Native Indian grandparents: her grandmother is not well, and cattle rustling on their ranch is about to break them. Adding spicy flavors to this mix are three intriguing women, most especially one, who help her through it all as she struggles to move on from the death of her lover.