Spirit Daughters - Potenza, Carol

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Résumé :
From the award-winning author of Hearts of the Missing and The Third Warrior SPIRIT DAUGHTERS A treasure beyond value. Her mother's life on the line. When a murder victim falls out of a closet at Police Sergeant Nicky Matthews' feet, her investigation leads her to a powerful tribal fertility medicine. What Nicky keeps secret is this medicine was once at the center of her father's scientific research. He'd isolated the single most-important compound in a fertility treatment worth a fortune ... and worth killing for. But when her father vanished, the identity and location of the plant that produced this compound was lost. Or was it? Nicky's archeologist mother may hold the key to the plant's rediscovery which makes her the target of the desperate killers. Nicky insists her mother stay away from the Fire-Sky Pueblo. Instead, she barges back into her daughter's life, determined to help Nicky solve the murder, and heal their contentious relationship. But her mother's return is the opening the killers needed. No way Nicky is ever going to let anyone hurt her mom, even if it means tracking the murderers into the New Mexico high country in the depths of winter. Will Nicky bring the killers to justice? Or just make them disappear?

Biographie:
Carol Potenza taught biochemistry at New Mexico State University before transitioning to a full-time mystery writer. Her first book was the Tony Hillerman Prize winner, Hearts of the Missing, followed by The Third Warrior, then Spirit Daughters, the Daphne Du Maurier first prize winner for Mainstream Mystery and Suspense. All three books are part of the Nicky Matthews mystery series. She's writes two other mystery series: the De-extinct Zoo Mysteries, and the Lies series.Carol loves the combination of strong women sleuths, paranormal and murder mystery, mixed with science or, as she likes to call it-BiocheMystery. She sets all her books in the beautiful state of New Mexico, where she lives with her husband, Leos, and her extremely grumpy rescue chihuahua, Herm?s.

Sommaire:
From the award-winning author of Hearts of the Missing and The Third Warrior SPIRIT DAUGHTERS A treasure beyond value. Her mother's life on the line. When a murder victim falls out of a closet at Police Sergeant Nicky Matthews' feet, her investigation leads her to a powerful tribal fertility medicine. What Nicky keeps secret is this medicine was once at the center of her father's scientific research. He'd isolated the single most-important compound in a fertility treatment worth a fortune ... and worth killing for. But when her father vanished, the identity and location of the plant that produced this compound was lost. Or was it? Nicky's archeologist mother may hold the key to the plant's rediscovery which makes her the target of the desperate killers. Nicky insists her mother stay away from the Fire-Sky Pueblo. Instead, she barges back into her daughter's life, determined to help Nicky solve the murder, and heal their contentious relationship. But her mother's return is the opening the killers needed. No way Nicky is ever going to let anyone hurt her mom, even if it means tracking the murderers into the New Mexico high country in the depths of winter. Will Nicky bring the killers to justice? Or just make them disappear?...