(Hardback)

Every year, the people of Santa Fe gather together for the burning of a four-story-tall puppet called Zozobra, a local custom that started 300 years ago. The next morning, as the sounds of the Fiesta de Santa Fe celebration still echo through the streets, Detective Sergeant Gilbert Montoya discovers a skull in the ashes of Zozobra.

(Paperback)

Late on a Monday night editor Lucy Newroe answers the phone in the Capital Tribune newsroom. The caller is the notorious Scanner Lady - an anonymous tipster whose hobby is to phone the newspaper with tips from her police scanner. But while Lucy is checking out the tip, she discovers Scanner Lady has been killed...