Detective Fiction, Native American Peoples - Fiction & Literature, Multicultural Detectives - Fiction, Police Stories
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Overview
Following on the critical success of her debut Ben Pecos Mystery, The Pumpkin Seed Massacre, Susan Slater returns to the pueblos of New Mexico with Yellow Lies.Salvadore Zuni is a master carver of tradtional fetishes. He is also a cheat. He makes synthetic amber that rivals anything to be found in nature. He even sticks the bugs inside. His recipe is worth a fortune, and someone is after it. Someone who is willing to kill and use the spirits of the tribes to drive Salvadore out of his mind and into prision for a murder he did not commit.
When Ben Pecos, the new resident Indian Health Services Psychologist, arrives at the pueblo, he finds himself caught up in the investigation of the murder of a trader in native artifacts and fetishes. Sal is arrested for the crime. But something smells odd to Ben, and as he begins to investigate, he treads deeper into the mystic and the list of suspects grows longer. Was it Hannah, the vampish keeper of the boarding house in which they all dwell? Her son, a huge, developmentally challenged boy with the nickname .22 for the size of the firearm used by his father to celebrate his birth? Could it have been Ben's own boss?
Masterfully plotted and rich with the spirit and characteristics of the Soutwest, Yellow Lies shows Susan Slater to be at the top of her form.
Book Details
Published
June 1, 2002
Publisher
Worldwide Library
Pages
256
Format
Paperbound
ISBN
9780373264223