Murder By The Marfa Lights (the Ariadne French Mysteries) - Denise Weeks

An Ariadne French Mystery. Cozy soft-boiled mystery set in Marfa, Texas, among the Marfa Mystery Lights and a cast of eccentrics. Gentle humor in the style of Joan Hess, Donna Andrews, and especially Anne George's "Southern Sisters" mysteries. Ariadne French and her older sister Zoe are co-sleuths in this suspenseful tale. Ari's long-time boyfriend leaves to build them a log cabin in Montana--but then she loses touch with him. His cell phone is disconnected and there's no forwarding address. A call from Marfa, Texas, comes to tell her that Aaron is dead under suspicious circumstances and that she's his sole heir. Traveling to help clear up his estate, Ari encounters oddball eccentrics and a crazy town that trades on its fame as the home of the Marfa Mystery Lights. Ari's not a believer until the Lights chase her and her guide (a mystical Native American lawyer) through the desert one night. Still, the suspects in Aaron's death are purely human. Aaron had developed a new public-key encryption scheme twice as fast as the ones currently in use, and several corporations had been negotiating to license it. The source code is missing--and Ari believes that when she finds it (he must have backed it up somewhere, knowing Aaron), she'll find Aaron's murderer. Can she and her sister find the code and the killer--without the killer getting to them first?

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