Marilyn Meredith returns to Bakersfield to sign her newest Tempe Crabtree Mystery.

Tempe Crabtree is the resident deputy of Bear Creek, a small mountain community in the southern Sierra. Her continuing interest in the spiritual side of her heritage often causes unrest in her marriage to her minister husband.

In Calling the Dead, Deputy Tempe Crabtree investigates a murder that looks like death from natural causes, and a suicide that looks like murder. Putting her job on the line, she investigates the murder on her own time and without permission from her superiors. Jeopardizing her marriage, she uses Native American ways to call back the dead to learn the truth about the suicide.

PEOPLE ARE TALKING...

"Calling The Dead is the first of the Tempe Crabtree books that I have read but it certainly won't be the last one I read. I have already made a list of Tempe Crabtree to pick up when I can...."
Reviewed by Patricia Reid.
The whole review can be read at: http://www.bestsellersworld.com/reviews/meredith-calling_the_dead.htm

"...The Native American legends included add something special to this story. Tempe and her husband, Hutch, come across as warm, caring people who live in a small mountain town. If you like mysteries which include Native Americans and their beliefs, you’ll most likely enjoy this novel."
     -- Kaye Trout - October 11, 2006

"...It is always refreshing to find a clean book that is not watered down and has a message, but is not preachy. Those are two things you can depend on with Marilyn Meredith. Tempe is an engaging heroine who has developed in a multi-faceted manner since her introduction, and is someone readers will want to continue to know."
    –Amanda Killgore, Huntress Review

"...What I like the most about the Tempe Crabtree series is that you don’t have to read them in order in order to understand what’s happening. The Calling the Death by Marilyn Meredith, the latest in the series refers to what Tempe Crabtree has to do in order to solve one of the two deaths she ends up investigating..."
    -- Gerri Balter, Uncle Edgar Bookstore