Lying Wonders

In Susan Rogers Cooper's (Home Again, Home Again) winning Lying Wonders: A Sheriff Milt Kovak Mystery, the Prophesy County, Okla., sheriff, last seen in Doctors and Lawyers and Such (1995), is pushing 60 and the father of a two-year-old boy. When the body of a teenage girl turns up on the property of a local religious sect, the Seven Trumpets, Milt has to track down the dead girl's missing boyfriend before his niece becomes the next victim. Agent, Vicky Bijur.