Description:
A dying Jack Lacy, a professional assassin, returns to Santa Fe wanting to be buried near his friend Dennis Hopper's grave in Jesus Nazareno Cemetery outside Taos.
Brief description: Emeritus Professor of English and Journalism at the University of Cincinnati, James C. Wilson lived in Santa Fe in the 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 twenty-two previous books, including Hiking New Mexico's Chaco Canyon: The Trails, The Ruins, The History; Santa Fe, City of Refuge: An Improbable Memoir of the Counterculture and New Mexico's Chaco Canyon: Photographing the Ancient City, in addition to Peyote Wolf, Smokescreen, Ghost Canyon, The Dead Go Fast, Painted Skull Ranch, Taos Gothic, Devil on Canyon Road, Taos Vendetta, Pecos Reckoning, The Witchcraft Murders, Santa Fe Assassin, A Death Demanded, Stealing the Hopi Snake Dance, and Breaking the Peyote Circle in the Fernando Lopez Santa Fe Mystery Series. He teaches a Mystery Writing Workshop regularly at the downtown Santa Fe Public Library.