Murder In Cowboy Bronze

Description for MURDER IN COWBOY BRONZE by Claire McCormick:

John Waltz, executive recruiter and bumbling but ultimately successful amateur sleuth, is staked to a vacation in the Southwest to meet his mother's finance. Ruth Waltz is doing every well for a woman in her sixties: as "Angela Ravenglass" she has just become a best-selling author of steamy romances, and now she has acquired a new husband-to-be---a full-blooded Navajo and jewelry designer named Jefferson Horse.

Arriving in Phoenix, Waltz finds hi Native American stepfather-to-be suave, sophisticated and very likable, which is more than can be said of some of the other Western artists and their hangers-on whom John meets. One of the more appealing is the sculptor Cal Morefield, but Waltz has barely made his acquaintance when Morefield is found dead---shot and then bludgeoned with one of his own bronzes. A young Navajo woman who has been living with Morefield---a sculptor herself---is missing.

In the race to find Lily Manygoats, to solve Morefield's killing before it is pinned on Horse's protege, and to keep up with his madcap mother, Waltz is his usual wisecracking and self-deprecating self. Waltz has delighted readers in his previous adventures and will certainly continue to do so in this one.

This is #3 in a John Waltz Novel.