The Wrong Hill to Die on

Praise for Donis Casey...Those who like their puzzles cloaked in local color froma different time will be amply rewarded.-Publishers Weekly, starred reviewon The Sky Took Him Away1916: Alafair Tucker had not wanted to come to Arizona, butbecause of her young daughter Blanche's lung ailment, she andher husband Shaw bundled Blanche onto the train and madethe nightmare trip from Oklahoma to Alafair's sister in Tempe,Arizona, hoping the dry desert air would help their daughter.As soon as they arrive, Blanche begins to improve, and Alafairis overjoyed to see her witty, beautiful sister Elizabeth again.For added excitement, a Hollywood motion picture company isshooting their movie right in Tempe.But Alafair and Shaw soon discover that all is not well. Elizabeth'smarriage is in tatters; tensions are high between the Anglo andLatino communities following Pancho Villa's murderous raid onColumbus, New Mexico; and Alafair suspects her sister is involvedin an illegal operation to smuggle war refugees out of Mexico andinto the U.S.And now here there's Bernie Arruda, dead on his back in a ditch.The night before he had been singing Mexican love songs at theparty in Elizabeth's backyard. Can Alafair connect all the piecesand discover a murderer before it is too late?Donis Casey's books have twice won the Arizona Book Award andbeen finalists for the Willa Award and the Oklahoma Book Award.Her first novel, The Old Buzzard Had It Coming, was named anOklahoma Centennial Book. Born and raised in Oklahoma, she nowlives with her husband, poet Donald Koozer, in Arizona.www.doniscasey.com