Description:
When a Santa Fe gallery owner is murdered, Detective Fernando Lopez launches an investigation that exposes the fractures in Santa Fe society and takes him into the dangerous underworld of the black market in stolen Native American artifacts.
Brief description: Emeritus Professor of English and Journalism at the University of Cincinnati, James C. Wilson lived in Santa Fe during the turbulent 1970s and wrote for the "Santa Fe New Mexican" and the "Santa Fe Reporter." He has lived in Albuquerque since 2012. He is the author of seven previous books, including most recently "Weather Reports from the Autism Front: A Father's Memoir of his Autistic Son"; "Santa Fe, City of Refuge: An Improbable Memoir of the Counterculture"; and "Hiking New Mexico's Chaco Canyon: The Trails, The Ruins, The History." This is the first in his Fernando Lopez Mystery Series, which continues with "Smokescreen," "Ghost Canyon," and "The Dead Go Fast," all from Sunstone Press.