Missing Man — Richard Martin Stern

Kinky photographs found in a dead man's suitcase are the only clues half-Apache detective Johnny Ortiz has as he sets out to track down the erotic star of the glossies, and the killer, in the New Mexico mountains,

IN THE MOUNTAIN TOWN OF SANTO CRISTO THEIR LIVES HAD GOTTEN MESSY, AND SOMEONE HAD TO DIE...

The woman in the glossy photographs knew what she was doing--and how to do it. So did whoever killed her husband with an explosive blast. For homicide Detective Johnny Ortiz it means a dirty business, a murder imported from out of town and committed on his turf...and a set of footprints belonging to a missing man.

The woman in the photos has a name, an alibi and a long past. Her departed husband has impeccable references--and his wife's compromising pictures in his suitcase. Ortiz is following a kinky trail of greed, sex and jealousy straight into the New Mexico mountains, when a second victim turns up dead. Now Ortiz has enough evidence for a conviction--but only and innocent man to pin it on.