Looking for your latest literary adventure? Pick up one of these reads by a Southern Arizona author.
Special to the Arizona Daily Star “DeadWare” by R.L. Clayton. Independently published. 421 pages. $17.99; $3.99 e-book.
A smart, irreverent, retired Minneapolis English and history teacher, Grace decides to load up a U-Haul and drive across country to start life afresh in San Diego. She does this over the objections of her family. And she does it harboring the secret that macular degeneration is destroying her eyesight. When the inevitable occurs, and her cloudy vision forces her off the highway, she meets Frieda, a smart, irreverent, young college student harboring her own secrets. Frieda needs a ride to Tucson.
Husband and wife Navajo Tribal Police Officers Chee and Manuelito have come to the national monument so Chee can make a PR call on paleontologist Dulles. Newly promoted to lieutenant, Chee’s been tasked with representing the department. Manuelito, who was not promoted to detective and is questioning herself, is encouraged by Chee to join him for a restorative trip. In no time, though, she’s shot at and nearly run down in the Valley of the Gods, and two men show up dead.
K.C. Cowan draws back the draperies of Longbourn House for a look at how the Bennet family has fared in this sequel to Jane Austen’s much-beloved “Pride and Prejudice.” The action picks up a few years after Austen’s novel concluded; the two eldest sisters are securely ensconced in their happily-ever-after, and the focus of the narrative has shifted to characters with unresolved love lives, and others whose paths have taken surprising turns.
Tim Hunter’s byline will be familiar to readers of the Arizona Daily Star, where his weekly column, “Sky Spy,” has been enlightening Southern Arizonans about all things astronomical since 2007. With this excellent book, Hunter has collected insights, information and observations from more than 750 columns and produced a highly readable reference that will be a boon to amateur astronomers and, indeed, to anyone who’s ever looked up at the sky and wondered.
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