Until Our Last Embrace

Joyce Lavene, James Lavene. Avalon Books, $19.95 (186pp) ISBN 978-0-8034-9508-1

Husband-and-wife writing team Joyce and Jim Lavene (One Last Goodbye) present another episode in the Diamond Springs series, Until Our Last Embrace: A Sharyn Howard Mystery, in which a woman is killed by bears. But when Sheriff Howard finds honey and bear attractant on her clothes and strychnine in her body, evidence first points toward the woman's husband, and then beyond him to his wealthy family.

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