Picacho Peak Mystery Author:Joseph A. Mootz Picacho Peak Mystery follows the adventures of Johnny Blue, a retired widower working as a security guard for the Central Arizona Project canal. The quiet widower's search for solitude in the desert is interrupted by his obsession with a young couple he finds dead at the bottom of the famous southern Arizona landmark. As he investigates the deat... more »hs and the nearby trail of mysterious blue crystals, he unwittingly becomes involved in disputes between land developers, farmers, environmentalists, militia groups and illegal border crossers.« less