This fifth book in the Sage Adair Historical Mystery series thrusts Sage Adair into an unfamiliar landscape and social milieu—a situation that challenges his skills and endangers his life.It's 1903 and a range war is brewing in Central Oregon. Extortion by an enemy sends Sage on a wild stagecoach ride into the Crooked River country's deep canyons and parched valleys. There he finds cowboys blazing dead lines across the range land that sheep men and their animals dare not cross....

Repercussion is a current-day murder mystery. The protagonist Maggie Kubiac, is a middle-aged, single mom. She works as a counselor to abused women and as a part-time college adjunct in the university's graduate school of social work.One of Maggie's clients, Gabriella, a Chilean woman, is accused of murdering her husband. He was the manager of a factory in Portland, Oregon and was abusive to both his wife and his workers. Maggie believes in Gabriella's innocence and is det...

Praise for the Sage Adair Historical Mystery Series of the Pacific NorthwestMost Recent Review . . .Adair is a likable and realistic anchor for this well-written, smartly plotted historical mystery series that blends real and fictional people and events. The series is still accumulating a loyal fan base, but each novel brings it closer to the wide acclaim it deserves. — David Pitt, American Library Association Booklist Review, 2014 May IssueDry Rot is a riveting ble...

Sage Adair is working on mundane business accounts when an urgent message arrives. Within hours, he and his friends are struggling to comprehend the harsh reality of Indian reservation life. They journey into that strange and dire world to fight greed. Soon things turn ominous when an Indian Service inspector is murdered and time starts running out for a prominent tribal leader. As they and their tribal allies begin uncovering the reservation’s secrets, a small boy disappears, taking the b...

This mystery – set in 1902 Portland – shows a colorful but corrupt city.If you were a single man strolling in Portland's Old Town a century ago, you might have been clubbed, drugged and dragged onto a schooner bound for China or a worm-riddled whaler headed for the Bering Straits. It didn't pay to complain too much–that is, if you didn't want to get thrown into the sea.The practice was called "shanghaiing" and it was common on the West Coast, with Portland as a key center.

Progressives' History With A Mystery TwistMarch ends with its usual mix of delight and deluge. Within days, fear buries the delight, and the deluge turns deadly. Suddenly, Sage Adair and his crew must discover and defeat more than one formidable opponent. At stake is the future of their beloved city and country. In the midst of a wild world's fair, they discover that there are too many killers and too few people to hunt them down.

In the fall of 1902, Portland's trestle bridges linking parts of the city across ravines and bog lands began collapsing. Labor union operative, Sage Adair, is observing a carpenter's union strike line. As the rain falls and the carpenters march for an eight hour day, the situation turns life threatening when the lumber mill owner's goons, safely atop huge horses and carrying long staves, ride down on the peaceful picketers.Within days the situation becomes dire when the mill owner'...

Sage Adair and his multi-ethnic companions discover, in their fight for social justice, that what you eat might kill and has. Their effort to stop the poisoning takes the reader on a wild ride alongside the story characters who cross international borders, are shanghaied aboard a doomed whaler, imprisoned dark cellars, and locked inside an insane asylum. Along the way, their mission is eagerly joined by angry doctors, bold women, and noble farmers. This 10th book of the Sage Adair Mystery ...

Repercussion is a current-day murder mystery. Social worker Maggie Kubiac has rebuilt her life until it is good. She loves her son, neighborhood, teaching, and profession. Abused people come to her for counseling but sometimes they ask for more, particularly when murder is involved. Who killed the factory manager? Was it his abused wife, Maggie's client? That's what the police think. Maggie is determined to prove them wrong. With her sidekick son, she goes on the hunt. As autumn l...

In this sixth book of the series, Sage's mother Mae goes undercover as a steam laundry worker alongside women working six-day weeks, ten-hour days. Exhausted and ill the women implore the laundry owners to institute nine-hour workdays.The insertion of white slavers, arsonists, and kidnappers into the ensuing labor dispute leaves Sage facing a nearly insurmountable problem when two women disappear. Even as Sage, Mae, and their colorful associates hunt for the missing women, they con...

Slow Burn had its impetus in a one-paragraph, 1903 news article, reporting that the city council had voted to plank or gravel Powell Blvd and Milwaukie Ave. after being warned by the Fire Insurance Underwriter's Board that the city's continued failure to make the two roads passable during wet weather would result in all structures in that area being uninsurable. This organization's impact in this instance triggered the author's research into both the firefighters' working conditions and th...

The year is 1902. John Sagacity Adair, "Sage" to his friends, is a wealthy restaurant proprietor in Portland, Oregon. Beneath the flickering gaslights of his elegant eatery, Mozart's Table, Sage appears urbane and attractively shallow. Yet, he is someone altogether different. Haunted by memories of an impoverished childhood, Sage seeks acceptance by City's financial elite only so that he can expose their secrets.After nearly two years of social maneuvering, he has won an invitation...