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One day Eva Piper was an elementary school teacher, the mother of three, the beloved wife of a strong, protective husband. The next day she stood at the bedside of a broken man who could do nothing but moan in agony and turn his head away from her. Later she would learn that he had died and actually experienced heaven before being prayed back to life - a true miracle.

"Stop the wedding!" No bride wants to hear those words, least of all Susannah "Legs" Carter, one of the Bod Squad's best agents. But when her colleague Jackson bursts in with news that her presumed-dead father may still be alive - and possibly a double agent - the vows are on hold, and the Bod Squad hits the road.

Firmly rooted in the modern American West, this story collection follows women and families who feel the instinctual, inexplicable pull of a home they must work to protect from the effects of economic inequity and climate catastrophe. A 74-year-old nun turns to eco-sabotage to stop a fracking project. A woman delivers her own baby in a Nevada ghost town. A young farmer hides her chicken flock from the government during a bird-flu epidemic. An ornithologist returns home to care for her rancher father and gets caught up trying to protect a breeding group of endangered sage grouse.

Kalle Blomquist kämpft gegen das Verbrechen. Immerhin ist er schon 12 Jahre alt, und da kann er es mit Sherlock Holmes allemal aufnehmen. Sehr zu Kalles Verdruss nehmen ihn seine Freunde Eva-Lotta und Anders nicht so ganz ernst mit seinem "Krimi-Tick". Eines Tages taucht Eva-Lottes Onkel Einar unvermittelt in dem kleinen Städtchen auf. Oder taucht er unter? Das kombiniert jedenfalls Kalle sofort messerscharf. Mit waghalsigen Ermittlungen versucht er - zunächst im Alleingang - Beweise gegen Onkel Einar zu sammeln. Dabei gerät er allerdings mächtig in Schwierigkeiten.