Rio Grande Fall - Hardcover

Anaya, Rudolfo A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0446518441 ISBN 13: 9780446518444

Publisher: Grand Central Pub, 1996

Synopsis

In the sequel to the critically lauded Zia Summer, small-time Chicano private eye Sonny Baca of New Mexico returns to untangle a web of deceit involving drug smugglers, bizarre medical experiments, murder, and the supernatural.

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Review:

When a woman dies after falling from a hot-air balloon at Albuquerque's world-famous balloon fiesta, private investigator Sonny Baca's intuition tells him it's murder. His intuition also tells him that the murder is the work of the Raven, the leader of a violent cult that murdered Sonny's cousin, and a man Sonny thought he'd killed. The murder jeopardizes the millions of tourist dollars connected with the fiesta, but Sonny knows the Raven has more on his mind than simple mayhem. This is a completely entertaining mystery novel, but Anaya actually offers two parallel lands of enchantment. One is temporal New Mexico; the other is Nuevo Mexicano, a land of santos, milagros, spirits, visions, and even brujas (witches). It's a land of old ways, old values, and old wisdom. And it's a land where small farms and multigenerational families are fast being wiped out by modernity. - Booklist

About the Author:

Rudolfo Anaya is a professor emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Pub
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0446518441
• ISBN 13: 9780446518444
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 359