Works

The White League
Coffee magnate Paul Blanchard's comfortable world is turned upside down when his old fraternity brother threatens to expose a dangerous secret that Paul has been harboring for 20 years -- unless Paul bankrolls Morvant's bid for governor. And in the bargain, Morvant demands that Paul secure the financial and political backing of a clandestine group called The White League, which Morvant insists has been the real powerbrokers in New Orleans for a hundred years. Paul's desperate pursuit of the truth uncovers family secrets, historical intrigue, and the underworld machinations of a mysterious group that will resort to murder in order to maintain their control of the city.

Into Thin Air
When the body of an Argentine journalist is found floating down the Roaring Fork River in Aspen, Sheriff Kurt Muller, aging hippie, single father, and son of one of the resort's founders, finds himself entangled in an undercover FBI investigation that implicates him in drug-trafficking and murder.

The Toby Press will reprint an attractive quality paperback edition of Into Thin Air in February 2006.

Hardrock Stiff
When an irascible old mine owner of prime real estate on Aspen mountain is killed in a mine explosion, Sheriff Kurt Muller is drawn into a dangerous covert war between militant eco-warriors and powerful corporate forces grappling for economic and political control of the New American West.

Pariah
When wealthy recluse Nicole Bauer is found dead at her Aspen mansion, her old flame Sheriff Kurt Muller becomes a prime suspect. To clear his name and find her killer, he delves deep into Nicole's decadent music-groupie past and the mystery surrounding a rock legend's death at her mansion 20 years earlier.

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Selected Works

Fiction
The White League
Blackmail, an elite secret society in New Orleans, and a white supremacist running for governor of Louisiana are the main ingredients in this Southern crawfish boil of a novel.
Into Thin Air
"This is a terrifically strong and wonderfully humane new voice in crime fiction."
--James Crumley, author of The Last Good Kiss
Hardrock Stiff
"A deftly plotted mystery...intricate and ingenious.... Zigal tells a provocative and compelling story."
--Dallas Morning News
Pariah
"Kurt Muller remains one of the most interesting characters on the American mystery scene."
--Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent