Description: "When a prominent Santa Fe City Council member is assassinated at the burning of Zozobra, the event that kicks off the annual Santa Fe Fiesta, Detective Fernando Lopez must negotiate cultural and ethnic conflicts to find his killer and expose his involvement in a sex-trafficking ring"--
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 eight previous books, including "Hiking New Mexico's Chaco Canyon: The Trails, The Ruins, The History" (2019) and "Peyote Wolf" (2020), the first of the Fernando Lopez Santa Fe Mystery Series.