Joanna Carroll: 5 books

Investigative journalist, Meg Witt, is looking into a story unfolding in her own Payson, Arizona backyard. There’s usually more than meets the eye when something unexpectedly plunges or conversely rises like a phoenix from the ashes. A local property management company has gone from the brink of...

Desperate for something to do in the sleepy New Mexican town, Meg Witt, a Pulitzer-prize winning investigative journalist, takes on the job of marketing maven for the meat packing company for which her husband is contracting. Everything is going along swimmingly until her new boss in a fit of anger...

The draw to get the group of investors and contractors to the broken-down ghost town was the promise that they’d be in on: refurbishing it to its glory days, making it into a dude ranch, fashioning it as an upscale Western spa, creating a bordello hideway….a Chicken Ranch ….but surely it couldn’t...

For investigative journalist Meg Witt, her stay in the east Texas town of El Dorado begins with the story of an underground railroad set in place to rescue the women and children from the clutches of the Mormon Fundamentalist men at The Yearning for Zion Ranch. She’s found one of the do-gooders...

At the turn of the 21st century, a significant boom in the construction of cultural buildings took saw the creation of hundreds of performing arts centers, theaters, and museums. After these buildings were completed, however, many of these cultural organizations struggled to survive, or, alternatively,...