Set in Eugene, Oregon, this cozy mystery follows a young detective who lives between the hippie world he grew up in and the almost equally 'outsider' world of live theater. The small city of Eugene is situated in the Willamette River Valley, a lushly green place about fifty miles from Pacific Ocean beaches toward the west, and the Cascade Mountain range that towers in the east. The story deals with greed and avarice and death, all wrapped in the emerald...