Mustang Sally series by Virginia Swift (books #1-#4)
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Overview: Virginia Swift teaches history at the University of New Mexico. She also writes nonfiction under the name of Virginia Scharff. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Genre: Mystery
Brown-Eyed Girl (Mustang Sally #1) (2000)
Sally Alder thought she’d left Laramie and outgrown her hard-drinking, guitar playing, hell-raising post for good. After all, this former singer known as Mustang Sally has become a respected history professor. What’s more, she’s been named to a richly endowed position at the University of Wyoming. But this plum job lands her back in Laramie — secretly researching the life of one of the town’s most famous yet little-known citizens, the late Meg Dunwoodie.
Of course, everyone knows Sally’s poking through old Meg’s papers, and a lot of people think that buried among them is a treasure map that could lead to a fortune. Most of Laramie is determined to find it, including a bunch of clueless burglars, a curious sheriff, gossipy friends, and greedy faculty colleagues. And, as if that isn’t enough to distract Sally, sexy Hawk Green is back to rekindle the romance she thought was gone forever.
As she delves into Meg’s romantic past, Sally discovers the forces of good and evil in Laramie are beginning to align in a mysterious way. And if she doesn’t learn from the post quickly enough, she may be doomed to repeat deadly mistakes.
Bad Company (Mustang Sally #2) (2002)
Jubilee Days: Laramie, Wyoming’s natural rodeo bash and sin fest. It’s a whole week of broncos bucking, guitars twanging, and cash registers ringing. Nobody wants to spoil the party, not even when a local loser turns up dead in the mountains east of town.
Almost nobody. Sally Adler and Hawk Green, a couple of college professors out for an afternoon hike, find the body, and for Sally and Hawk, murder is anything but academic. Like the victim, Sally’s done her time in the glare of the late-night neon lights, and she knows how thin the line can be between honky-tonk angels and lost souls. She’s determined to do what she can to see justice done. Hawk knows he’d better stay close and keep his eyes open: Sally has a way of attracting the wrong kind of attention.
From the jam-packed barrooms to the wide-open spaces, Sally and Hawk unravel the dark threads of a sinister scheme. It’s a race to find the killer before Sally becomes the next victim.
Bye, Bye, Love (Mustang Sally #3) (2004)
In the third book in Virginia Swift’s acclaimed mystery series, Sally Alder, hailed by USA Today as "Wyoming’s version of TV’s Jessica Fletcher or Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple," is back with her colorful cohorts to investigate a bizarre murder.
Okay, it’s embarrassing for a woman of her professional stature and self-image still to have a crush on singer Thomas "Stone" Jackson, a guy whose nickname derives from his legendary propensity for addictive substances. But when Jackson appears one day and asks college professor and sometime sleuth Sally Alder for a little help, she can’t say no. Jackson is worried about his ex-wife, folksinger Nina Cruz.
It turns out his concern is justified when Nina is found shot to death in the snow-covered forest behind her house. While the sheriff’s office believes Nina’s death is most likely a hunting accident, Sally is unconvinced. It’s up to her to get to the truth, as she uncovers a plot fueled by a twisted mixture of altruism and greed.
Praised by critics for her "lively characters and surprising plot twists" (Booklist), and "good local color" (Library Journal), Virginia Swift has once again created a fast-paced, clever tale of murder and mayhem, sure to keep readers on the edge of their seats.
Hello, Stranger (Mustang Sally #4) (2006)
Sally felt the cold gale, heard the scream of police sirens, the honking of fire engine Klaxons. Every detail of the scene sharpened in surreal focus: the weathered plank fences that lined the alley; the bare branches of cottonwoods peaking above the fence tops, flapping in the keening wind; the garbage cans, chained down to board boxes to keep them from blowing away; the clattering sound of dust and gravel flung against hard surfaces.
And the body on the ground. Now she looked at him. Blue pinstripe suit, black wingtip shoes. Not, Sally thought with an unbelievably inappropriate giggle, a Laramie look.
College professor Sally Alder returns to her office one cold, blustery afternoon to find Charlie Preston, a student in her women’s history class, slumped in a chair outside her door. The girl has suffered a very recent, brutal battering, but she refuses to call the cops or her family, or go to the hospital. With little other recourse, Sally gives Charlie the cash in her wallet and the coat off her back, and the girl leaves.
Charlie’s been gone for two weeks when a body turns up, a man beaten to death in an alley. It’s Brad Preston, and his estranged daughter heads the list of suspects. The police immediately start to look for the girl, and so does Sally. The more Sally discovers, the less convinced she is that Charlie is guilty. She has to find the real killer before there’s another victim and an innocent young woman must pay the price.
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