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Benched At 5
Benched At 5 -- © 2026 -– Robert N. Clinton (aka CyberShutterbug)
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New Covers! New Titles! The Reluctantly Psychic Series is now the Tales of a Reluctant Psychic Mystery Series! How to Avoid Murder and Other Jobs (Tales of a Reluctant Psychic) Psychic Mystery 1st in Series Setting - New Mexico Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tule Publishing Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 15, 2026 Print length ‏ : ‎ 231 pages ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1972451526 ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0H1YWD61G When geologist Petra Cloch takes a job curating rocks and minerals at a quirky New Mexico history museum, she hopes for a quiet life surrounded by stones instead of people. Then she touches a crystal covered in someone else’s terror. Everyone says Petra’s predecessor died in a tragic car accident. But the violent emotions lingering inside the crystal tell a different story. Petra has spent her entire life hiding her psychic ability to sense emotions from objects, and she refuses to trust visions over evidence. Unfortunately, the deeper she digs into the museum’s secrets, the clearer it becomes that someone is lying. Between eccentric coworkers, suspicious book club members, and a sheriff who keeps turning up at exactly the wrong moments, Petra finds herself tangled in a murder investigation that’s growing more dangerous by the day. Because if her predecessor was killed, the murderer may not be finished. Perfect for fans of paranormal cozy mysteries, amateur women sleuths, small-town secrets, and quirky investigative mysteries with heart and humor. Previously Released as A Stone Cold Murder. Death Takes a Field Trip: A Paranormal Mystery (Tales of a Reluctant Psychic) Psychic Mystery 2nd in Series Setting - New Mexico Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tule Publishing Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 15, 2026 Print length ‏ : ‎ 244 pages ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1972451533 ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0GX36RHFH Petra Cloch thought solving one murder would make life simpler. Instead, another suspicious death lands at her feet. When retired petroleum engineer Frank Underwood dies after ranting about a strange desert discovery, most people assume old age and paranoia finally caught up with him. But Petra’s friend Liberty isn’t convinced. Frank had become secretive, frightened, and obsessed with something hidden deep in the New Mexico desert. Something he may have died protecting. Petra reluctantly joins the investigation, using her hidden psychic ability to read emotions lingering on objects while trying to keep her dangerous gift secret. As clues lead from geological clubs to inheritance disputes to rumors of aliens and buried discoveries, Petra realizes someone will do anything to keep the truth hidden. Including killing again. With the help of her growing circle of friends, Petra must uncover what Frank discovered before the killer decides she knows too much. Perfect for fans of paranormal cozy mysteries, amateur sleuth adventures, and atmospheric Southwestern mysteries. Previously Released as Death at Rock Bottom. Murder’s Weekend Getaway (Tales of a Reluctant Psychic) Psychic Mystery 3rd in Series Setting - New Mexico Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tule Publishing Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 15, 2026 Print length ‏ : ‎ 230 pages ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1972451540 ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0GZ6RV37S Geologist Petra Cloch has finally started to feel at home in her quirky New Mexico town, despite the psychic ability she’s spent years trying to hide. Then she finds a dead body in her landlord’s guest room. The victim, a secretive stranger named Wayne, arrived claiming to be an old friend. Within days, he was dead, Shelley is the prime suspect, and Petra’s quiet life disappears all over again. As Petra and her friends investigate Wayne’s suspicious past, they uncover scams, lies, and enemies hiding behind small-town charm. Petra’s psychic gift gives her flashes of fear and betrayal tied to objects Wayne left behind, but the visions aren’t enough to identify the killer. Now Petra must untangle the truth before Shelley is arrested—or the murderer decides Petra has become a problem too. Luckily, she has help from her loyal found family… and a protective dog that refuses to leave her side. Perfect for fans of paranormal cozy mysteries, humorous women sleuths, found-family mysteries, and small-town murder investigations. Previously Released as Buried in Betrayal. About the Author Kris Bock writes romance, mystery, and suspense. In the Tales of a Reluctant Psychic Mystery Series, a quirky loner who can read the history of any object with her touch gets drawn into mysteries at the museum of oddities where she works. In the humorous Accidental Detective series, a witty journalist solves mysteries in Arizona and tackles the challenges of turning fifty. Kate has followed the most dangerous news stories around the world, but can she survive going home? Readers say, “I couldn’t put it down,” and “Kris Bock is my new favorite cozy mystery writer. I loved this book so much!” In the Teenage Adventures of Felony Melanie comedy series, follow the crazy antics of Melanie, Jake, and their friends a decade before the movie Sweet Home Alabama. Readers say: “Fun loving, laugh out loud read!” and “Such a fun book! If you enjoyed Sweet Home Alabama this will be a treat.” The Furrever Friends Sweet Romance series stars the employees and customers at a cat café. Watch as they fall in love with each other and shelter cats. Readers say, “The Furrever Friends Sweet Romance series is one of my favorite series of all time” and “This is one of the most heartfelt series that you will ever read!” In the Accidental Billionaire Cowboys series, a Texas ranching family discover winning a fortune in the lottery causes as many problems as it solves. Readers say: “What a wonderful book! I loved every word of this book and highly recommend it,” and “I really enjoyed this book and can’t wait to see where these characters go next.” Kris Bock also writes romantic suspense with outdoor adventures in Southwestern landscapes. Readers have called these novels “Smart romance with an Indiana Jones feel.” Your Escape Into A Good Book Travel Agent This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase using my links, I will receive a small commission from the sale at no cost to you. Thank you for supporting Escape With Dollycas. Read the full article
The Ranch That Was Not Searched
There are places in a scandal that become symbols because of what is found there. There are other places that become symbols because of what is not found, because no one appears to have looked.
Jeffrey Epstein had many properties. One was an island, which, in the public imagination, has become the whole map of the crime. The island is useful in that way. It is small, exotic, obscene, and easy to picture. A private island gives the mind something it can hold. But the New Mexico ranch is less tidy. It was large, inland, ordinary in its vastness, and therefore more difficult to reduce to a single image.
The property was Zorro Ranch, outside Stanley, New Mexico. It was not a rumor. It was not internet folklore. Epstein owned it. The question is what happened there, what was known, and why the place seems to have received less official attention than common sense would suggest.
Among the allegations surrounding the ranch was a report about a suspicious barn, a chimney, and the possibility that an incinerator might have been concealed there. That is not proof of an incinerator. Journalism has to keep that distinction intact, because the distinction is what separates an accusation from a finding. But the absence of proof is not the same as the absence of reason to investigate. A tip concerning an incinerator on the property of a sex trafficker is not the sort of thing that should vanish into paperwork.
Public reporting indicates that federal authorities searched several Epstein properties after his 2019 arrest. Zorro Ranch, by contrast, appears not to have been subjected to the same kind of search. There were interviews. There were files. There were tips. There was, apparently, no full federal raid of the land itself.
This is the part of the story that has the old bureaucratic smell: not the smell of conspiracy in its cinematic form, with cloaked men and sealed rooms, but the duller and more common odor of institutions protecting themselves from difficult facts. A ranch is large. A search is expensive. The dead cannot be cross-examined. The powerful have lawyers. The file can be moved from one office to another until, at last, no one is responsible.
New Mexico authorities later said their inquiry had been halted or constrained at the request of federal prosecutors in New York. That explanation may be procedurally true. It may also be morally useless. To say that one office stood down because another office had jurisdiction is not the same as saying justice was done. It is merely to describe the path by which action became inaction.
The ranch manager had reportedly been interviewed years earlier, during the Florida investigation, but an interview is not a forensic search. A conversation with staff is not a survey of the land. A note in a file is not a shovel in the ground.
This distinction matters because the Epstein case is full of managed narrowness. The public is often invited to see the scandal as a story of one depraved man and a small circle of helpers. That is the most comfortable version. It has a villain, a setting, and an ending. The villain dies. The island is sold. The new owner insists on distance from the old crimes. The machinery of respectability starts again.
But the deeper scandal is not merely what Epstein did. It is how long he was allowed to do it, how many institutions saw pieces of the machine, and how often the machine was treated as something too inconvenient to dismantle. The ranch belongs to that larger question.
One should be careful here. Carelessness helps the guilty. If every rumor is treated as fact, the record becomes mud, and mud is where power prefers to hide. There is no public proof that bodies were buried at Zorro Ranch. There is no public proof that an incinerator was used for criminal purposes. There is no public proof that every person connected to the property knew what Epstein was doing.
There is, however, a plain and stubborn fact: a property tied to Epstein, surrounded by serious allegations, appears not to have received the kind of search that an ordinary citizen might expect. That is not a theory. It is a question. And in a case like this, the unanswered question is itself evidence of institutional failure.
The island became the emblem because it looked like evil. The ranch may be more important because it looked like land. Gates, barns, managers, legal ownership, jurisdictional confusion, federal silence. Evil does not always build temples. Sometimes it buys acreage.
And when the state does not look, the public is left to do what it always does in the absence of official truth: speculate, distrust, exaggerate, and then be scolded for losing faith in institutions that first lost faith with them.
San Juan Islands National Monument - Poster by Bureau of Land Management Via Flickr: Situated in the northern reaches of Washington State’s Salish Sea, the San Juan Islands are a uniquely beautiful archipelago of more than 450 islands, rocks, and pinnacles. Within this area, the San Juan Islands National Monument encompasses nearly 1,000 acres on 75 rocks and islands. Woodlands, grasslands, and wetlands are intermixed with rocky balds, bluffs, intertidal areas, and sandy beaches. This wide array of habitats supports an equally varied collection of wildlife. Blacktail deer, river otter, mink, and a diversity of birdlife—including golden and bald eagles, the marbled murrelet, and the recently reintroduced western bluebird—thrive in this mild climate. Orcas, seals, and porpoises also attract a regular stream of wildlife watchers. With two historic lighthouses and a 12,000-year heritage of Coast Salish communities, the historical landscape is equally evocative. On March 25, 2013, a Presidential proclamation designated the area a national monument, managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as part of the National Landscape Conservation System. The best way to see the islands is by recreational watercraft, although some of the islands are accessible by ferry. Inquire before planning your trip. A limited number of vintage posters are available at BLM state offices in both postcard and poster formats. Requests for paper posters can also be sent to [email protected]. Please include the word POSTER in the subject line and provide your name, mailing address, and the number and type of poster. Requests are limited to five posters per recipient.
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Somewhere in the West
Continuing my month long series of posts with images made in New Mexico with the Great Divide as my focus or jumping off point. Here is one final image from the road: the view along US Highway 550 within the Jemez Pueblo.
One image by Richard Koenig; taken April 6th 2026.
Somewhere in the West
Continuing my month long series of posts with images made in New Mexico with the Great Divide as my focus or jumping off point.
Here are two images taken from the middle of Highway 509 near El Segundo Mine in northwestern New Mexico. After that I drove through Whitehorse and Pueblo Pintado Canyon, the entrance of which can be seen in the third image.
Three images by Richard Koenig; taken April 6th 2026.
Somewhere in the West
Continuing my month long series of posts with images made in New Mexico with the Great Divide as my focus or jumping off point. We're on the Divide literally today, and the maps say so: "Continental Divide" is the place name here along I-40. This post office is across the interstate from the Native American market shown in yesterday's post.
Four images by Richard Koenig; taken April 6th 2026.