Karl Gatlin is a private eye working in ultra-liberal Santa Cruz. His client, Aria Piper, has come to him to investigate a series of threats from a religious zealot by the name of Gary Crowder. Karl, his assistant Matt, and his in-house muscleman John Ratu...

Tom Dashiel is a forty-four-year-old therapist leading a solitary life in Santa Cruz, California. Tom's physical features are intimidating, as he is very tall and has scars on his face following a bad accident. Tom meets an unusual client named George Arundel who speaks in...

In The Not Quite Enlightened Sleuth, a murder mystery by Verlin Darrow, Ivy Lutz left her life as a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka and returned home when her mother had a stroke. Ivy struggled to apply her Buddhist principles in her new life and...