Desert Jade was a finalist for Best Thriller-Suspense, 2018 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. Tucson Chicana/Native American private investigator and Iraq War veteran Letty Valdez joins forces with an unlikely ally, Chinese police Detective Inspector Zhou, to stop crime on the U.S.-Mexico border. This stand-alone mystery-suspense thriller is #1 in the Letty Valdez Mystery series followed by Dragon's Revenge #2, Daemon Waters #3 and Direct Evidence #4.