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French Toast a la Santa Fe
978-1963832617 (paperback) $16.95
978-1963832617 (paperback) $16.95
Artemesia Publishing
Release date: October 13, 2026
Available for pre-order on Amazon
Aspiring Courier Prudence Bates joins ten other Detourists, their Courier, and driver, on the three-day Fred Harvey Indian Detour from Las Vegas through Santa Fe and to Albuquerque. During the trip small, valuable items belonging to the Detourists begin disappearing, and a retired Australian school teacher falls into a kiva. Or was she pushed? Prudence begins to suspect that someone is trying to kill her fellow traveler and wonders where the flapper from Kansas City disappears to at every stop. Or is La Llorona haunting the Detour? And what secrets are the two German men hiding? Prudence is determined to solve the mysteries and uncover the truth.
Fried Chicken Castañeda
978-1-963832-05-1 (paperback) $16.95
978-1-963832-24-2 (ebook)
Release date : May 6, 2025
Winner of the 2025 New Mexico Book Award for Cozy Mystery and the 2025 CIPA EVVY Bronze Medal in Mystery/Crime/Detection
In 1929, Prudence Bates finds bootleggers, murder, romance, and gourmet dining at the Castañeda Hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Bored with her conventional middle-class life, the 25-year-old librarian escapes Cleveland by heading west to Santa Fe to qualify as a Courier for the Southwestern Indian Detours. On the train, she meets charming Navajo school teacher Jerry Begay. They feel an instant rapport, but he’s headed for Gallup, so it’s but a brief encounter. In Las Vegas, her first stop, she is befriended by Castañeda Harvey Girls Martha and Anne and desk clerk Clara. Four days later, Martha’s brother, Tom, is found murdered. Was it because of his bootlegging activities? Or his amorous activities with Liz Kearney, daughter of the richest man in the area and rumored mob boss? And was that really Jerry Begay whom Prudence saw meeting with Tom in secret the day before he was killed?
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