A young Bay Area woman, Sonia Mattingly, goes missing while taking a summer jaunt in an old mining town in California’s scenic Sierra Mountains. Gale Brevard and her partners are…

When an heiress is found murdered, corporate attorney Gail Brevard is assigned the case, despite her lack of experience in trying criminal matters. The suspect, 19-year-old Damon Powell, was found…

The original volume from which this book is taken, Burgess McK. Shumway’s Ranchos of California: Patented Private Land Grants Listed by County, was one of a series of noteworthy research…