Marty Eberhardt, Silver City/Tucson mystery novelist, is a rare find. As in her premier outing for garden employee Bea Rivers, Eberhardt’s Bones in the Back Forty tells a sweet, sweet story. She offers a new genre of joyful suspense every time a reader cracks open one of her books. A mystery reader who plunges into […]
Silver City Novelist Spins Naval Tales Silver City, far from the sea’s salty foam, now claims Philip “Pep” Parotti as our answer to C.S. Forester and Patrick O’Brian, masters of sea faring tales. Those of us of a certain age remember awaiting the arrival of the Saturday Evening Post, usually not in the Saturday mail. […]
Saying the Heart’s Hidden Honesty Lynne Zotalis’ Mysterious Existence, a revelation of a life in photographs and poems and prose passages, taps in the pieces of a heart’s jigsaw puzzle. Distinguishing hazy pink from purple, puzzle solver Zotalis takes up daughters, fathers, friends, lovers, husbands, the Earth, suffering and joy and as she slips the […]
More than Wolf I’ve known a few persons who I suspect spend spare nighttime hours as wolves, but my acquaintances did not help me decipher the initial scenes of Heather Ashbury’s new novel, More than Wolf. The book’s subtitle, Book 2 of the More than Human Series, should have prepared me. The murder being mourned […]
One of the myriad mysteries about our Land of Enchantment is how a country with vistas so heart-stopping, with skies so magnificent, often imposes on its human residents a stark existence, requiring grit, even courage, and a wry stoicism. New Yorker artist become New Mexican, Georgia O’Keefe symbolized that contrast with steer skulls in desert […]
Mystery I invite readers to survey shelves of new paperbacks for so-called detective or thriller fiction. These are the days of cruel drug gangs threatening detectives whose own backgrounds are shady. Or the plots rely on “serial killers” who inspire page turning by shoving menace closer and closer to the protagonists. Mayhem rules! Twisted psyches […]
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Silver City Writer Invents a New Mystery
Silver City Novelist Spins Naval Tales
Reviews of Two Books
Werewolf Packs and One Donkey
New Mexican Women: There Can’t Be Too Many
From Sagauro Fruit to Low Rider Cruising, from Mystery to Poetry
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