A Death In Santa Fe

Author : Richard Neville Jack
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595253849
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Death in Santa Fe written by Richard Neville Jack and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel's protagonist Alex Lautrec is a former NYPD Lieutenant currently running his own successful P.I. Agency. Out of the blue he receives a call from his former wife, now residing in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She reveals that her current husband, a renowned artist and sculptor has been killed in a bizarre foundry mishap. Though declared an accident, she believes his death was intentionally staged by the foundry's owner, a larger-than-life entrepreneur named Victor Savage and pleads with her ex to fly out to Santa Fe and investigate. Lautrec views the case as sufficiently compelling to shift his case-load onto his partner's shoulders and head for New Mexico. His first discovery upon arrival is that his former wife has lost none of her considerable sex-appeal and prays he can retain his focus while house-guesting under her roof. His first call upon Savage convinces him that his client's suspicions are warranted, bolstered by a warning to back-off.

Author : Ann Myers
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062382284
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bread of the Dead written by Ann Myers and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Santa Fe chef investigates when murder sours her sweet plans for the Day of the Dead in this culinary mystery series debut. Life couldn’t be sweeter for Tres Amigas Café chef Rita Lafitte, decorating sugar skulls and taste-testing rich, buttery pan de muerto in anticipation of Santa Fe’s Day of the Dead bread-baking contest. That is, until her friendly landlord, Victor, is found dead next door. Although the police deem Victor’s death a suicide, Rita knows something is amiss. To uncover the truth, she teams up with her octogenarian boss, Flori, the town’s most celebrated snoop. The duo begins to sift through long-buried secrets and to take full measure of duplicitous neighbors, but the clock is ticking and their list of suspects is growing ever longer. Just as the clues get hotter than a New Mexican chili, one of their main suspects winds up dead. Rita fears that the killer is dishing out seconds—and her order might be up.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1649741847
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death Comes for the Archbishop written by Willa Cather and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's best known novel. This epic, is a dream like, mythic story of a life lived simply in the southwestern desert. Father Jean Marie Latour is transferred to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. He finds a vast territory of hills, arroyos, and lonelness. Cather delivers a story of a simple life lived well and full in this her tour de force.

Author : Ralph Melnick
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826329011
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justice Betrayed written by Ralph Melnick and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Librarian and historian Melnick (Williston Northampton School, Massachusetts) digs out details of the 1931 rape and murder of a young white woman in the New Mexico town, and the trial and execution of a black man for the crime. He says we can recognize from our own time the political corruption, media-induced hysteria, and moral indifference operating then. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061827320
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Santa Fe Rules written by Stuart Woods and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful movie producer Wolf Willett is stunned when he sees his own death reported in a major newspaper. It says he was a victim in a triple homicide during a sordid tryst with his wife and a friend. But who is the unidentified corpse? Why can't Wolf remember anything about the night in question? And who wants him dead? Wolf had the means and motive—and his inexplicable memory loss seems far too suspicious to suit Sante Fe's crusading D.A., who promptly has Wolf arrested. And when another murder complicates the scenario, he turns to hot-shot criminal attorney Ed Eagle to help clear his name—and stop a killer who's determined to finish the job.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307831477
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Willa Cather On Writing written by Willa Cather and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there—that, one might say, is created." This famous observation appears inWilla Cather on Writing, a collection of essays and letters first published in 1949. In the course of it Cather writes, with grace and piercing clarity, about her own fiction and that of Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, and Katherine Mansfield, among others. She concludes, "Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all—no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself—a game of make-believe, of re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it."

Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440634831
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Santa Fe Dead written by Stuart Woods and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-04-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods returns with the third fast-paced thriller featuring Santa Fe, New Mexico’s take-no-prisoners attorney Ed Eagle... When his black widow wife failed to take him out in her murder for hire plot, Ed Eagle figured he was in the clear. But now that Barbara has escaped from police custody, Ed knows that his life, the life of his new girlfriend and, of course, any rich man unlucky enough to be lured into Barbara’s web, is in extreme danger. To add to his troubles, Ed has taken on a new client, Don Wells, who may or may not have murdered his own wife and son. From the posh resorts of southern California to the New Mexico desert and the seedy hotels of Tijuana, Ed Eagle will follow every lead—and hope that he doesn’t wind up Santa Fe dead.

Author : Paul Horgan
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819573590
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lamy of Santa Fe written by Paul Horgan and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History (1976). The extraordinary biography of a pioneer hero of the frontier Southwest from the author of Great River. Originally published in 1975, this Pulitzer Prize for History–winning biography chronicles the life of Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy (1814–1888), New Mexico’s first resident bishop and the most influential, reform-minded Catholic official in the region during the late 1800s. Lamy’s accomplishments, including the endowing of hospitals, orphanages, and English-language schools and colleges, formed the foundation of modern-day Santa Fe and often brought him into conflict with corrupt local priests. His life story, also the subject of Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop, describes a pivotal period in the American Southwest, as Spanish and Mexican rule gave way to much greater influence from the United States and Europe. Historian and consummate stylist Paul Horgan has given us a chronicle filled with hardy, often extraordinary adventure, and sustained by Lamy’s magnificent strength of character. “Lamy of Santa Fe stands as a beacon in American biography.” —James M. Day, author of Paul Horgan “Lamy of Santa Fe is a classic work. Not only is the research exemplary but so is the narrative artistry, the work of history as art.” —Robert Gish, author of Nueva Granada: Paul Horgan and the Modern Southwest “Historians, and general readers as well, seeking vivid portrayal of the Southwest’s political, social and cultural traditions will find [this book] rewarding . . . the historical and literary heritage of Americans in general will be the richer for Mr. Horgan’s painstaking effort.” —Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Author : Amanda Allen
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1683315472
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Santa Fe Mourning written by Amanda Allen and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant new heroine Maddie Vaughn-Alwin makes her daring debut, discovering that speakeasies conceal more than just liquor. Madeline Vaughn-Alwin’s picture-perfect life fades to gray when her childhood sweetheart perishes in the Great War. The aspiring painter leaves her wealthy New York family behind to travel across the country and start over in California. But when Maddie reaches Santa Fe, New Mexico, she halts her westward journey, certain she’s found her new home amid the striking scenery and inspiring artistic community. To help out around her new adobe cottage, Maddie hires the Anayas, a local Native American family. But when the father is found murdered outside a speakeasy, the police brush off the death as just another inebriated man finding trouble. Shocked and distraught, Maddie takes on the case herself. But as she investigates, she learns that the Anayas’ home life was not what it seemed. And just as she’s starting to see the bigger picture, the autopsy reveals that her suspects’ alibis don’t hold up in Santa Fe Mourning, Amanda Allen’s richly evocative first Santa Fe Revival mystery, perfect for fans of Victoria Thompson and Rhys Bowen.

Author : Amanda Allen
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1448311004
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death Comes to Santa Fe written by Amanda Allen and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former New York darling turned amateur sleuth Madeline Vaughn-Alwin is once again thrown into a colourful yet deadly web of secrets, lies and soirees to die for! It's the week of Fiesta in Santa Fe and Maddie is looking forward to enjoying the celebrations. But as 'Old Man Gloom' Zozobra goes up in flames, so too do Maddie's hopes for a carefree life . . . Human remains are found in the dying embers of Zozobra, and then Maddie and her dashing beau Dr David Cole find a body washed up in the arroyo at the edge of town. Soon identified as Ricardo Montoya, a wealthy businessman and head of one of the most affluent families in Santa Fe . . . the plot starts to thicken. While his beautiful wife Catalina and her complicated children seem less than heartbroken at his untimely demise, and with many disgruntled locals crawling out of the woodwork, Maddie is surrounded by suspects. With the celebrations of Fiesta continuing around them, Maddie and her 'Detection Posse' get busy infiltrating the best parties and hobnobbing with old and new faces - but can they bring the murderer to justice before they strike again?