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With the Democratic Primary three weeks away, Sheriff Cliff Lansing is facing a serious contender. Councilman John Tapia is well-financed but lags in the polls. He digs into his bag of dirty tricks. Enlisting the aid of his cousin a...
A Sheriff Lansing Mystery - Book 9 Sheriff Cliff Lansing's week begins with a corpse and a desecrated grave. By Saturday he has two more dead men, one killed by a wild animal, the other shot in a remote canyon. A nearly catatonic Navajo teen is...
"I was eight years old when I saw the Blue Mustang. This was in nineteen thirty-five. It is said he still roams the canyons, guarding the wild herds, protecting all the creatures of the high desert." Conrado Koteen, Jicarilla Reservation, 1990. Cattl...
Author of Legend of the Dead, Coyote Returns, The Shadow Catcher, The Dark Canyon, The Mutes, and The Owl and the Raven San Juan Pueblo -- the dead of winter. Police Chief Joseph Aquino has a suspicious drowning -- the Director of the Pueblo Art Coun...
Author of Legend of the Dead, Coyote Returns, The Shadow Catcher, The Dark Canyon, and The Mutes New Mexico State Penitentiary in Santa Fe -- a murder. A tormented Benedictine Monk. A new teacher at Las Palmas Middle/High School escaping her past. A ...
Author of Legend of the Dead, Coyote Returns,The Shadow Catcher, and The Dark Canyon Strange lights spotted over the high desert of northern New Mexico, unmarked helicopters flying to and from Archuleta Mesa on the Apache Reservation, the death of a ...
NEW BLOOD ON AN ANCIENT GROUND... In an air-conditioned university office, a man lies dead, brutally bludgeoned. A hundred miles away, in the high, arid New Mexico mountain country that Sheriff Cliff Lansing is sworn to protect, an animal is devas...
The owl moves on heavy wings, his eyes piercingly bright, his cry loud and haunting. The owl is the last thing they see before the sharp knife flashes... Sheriff Cliff Lansing is a single father, a part-time rancher, and an overworked lawman sudde...
COYOTE MADE MOTHER EARTH ANGRY. COYOTE MADE THE DEER DANCE. NOW, COYOTE HAS RETURNED, TRAILING VIOLENCE AND DEATH. A small-town sheriff. A big-time land deal. A season of violence in a land of ancient myths... From a New Mexico arroyo, a bullet...
A THOUSAND YEARS AGO A PEOPLE'S BLOOD WAS SHED ON THIS PARCHED EARTH. NOW THE DYING HAS BEGUN AGAIN.... LEGEND OF THE DEAD A Sheriff Lansing Mystery HIGH ON A DESERT RIDGE, THE WATCHER AWAITS The body in the arroyo belonged to a man who'...
CERRO GRANDE A Sheriff Lansing Mystery - Book 10 A controlled burn by the US Park Service becomes an uncontrolled inferno. The Los Alamos National Laboratory, Santa Clara Pueblo, and the lives of thousands of people are threatened. Creatures of...