When deputy sheriff turned private investigator Spider Latham is sent to help the Red Pueblo Museum, he doesn’t suspect it’ll cause a rift between his wife, Laurie, and himself.
Museum Director Martin Taylor is desperate, and his son Matt is angry. Some unknown person is bent on destroying the museum financially and is about to succeed. Things turn violent. It ends with someone’s skull bashed in with an Anasazi ax, and everyone has a motive for the murder.
Can Spider untangle the web of secrecy and lies surrounding the museum before the Taylors lose it all? And, in the process, can he save his own marriage?
If you’ve ever visited Kanab, Utah, you’ll revisit … If you’ve ever visited Kanab, Utah, you’ll revisit the town through Liz Adair’s story, set there and in nearby Fredonia, Arizona. If you’re unfamiliar with the area, TROUBLE AT THE RED PUEBLO may well have you making travel arrangements.Â
Not my style, but others will likely enjoy it I didn’t finish this book, but that was not due to any fault of the plot, which seemed to be intricate; writing, which was excellent, or characters, who seemed realistic and whom I actually liked. I liked the southwestern setting, as well. I just found it wasn’t a story that interested me. That being said, I would tell other readers to give it a whirl. It would be a sad and sorry old world of books if we all enjoyed the same thing.
Caught in Spider Latham’s web My favorite escape reading is crime fiction. I like the tough stories (Robert Crais, Michael Connelly, Craig Johnson), but I have a growing affinity for the cozy-but-edgy mystery (Ruth Downie, the excellent Steve Havill). Joining that latter group is Spider Latham, Liz Adair’s hard-working, honest Nevada deputy sheriff. Spider stumbled into lawmaking because the mines closed in his small Nevada town and he was unemployed. Reluctant he may be, but Spider has a flair for crime-solving. Spider and…