New this spring
Coyote Hour
The third Deputy Ruiz mystery.
Silas Thorne writes dark, atmospheric crime set in the high desert north of Taos: arroyos still running after the first monsoon rain, ghost towns carrying debts nobody paid, and the long hour before dawn when the wrong people are awake.
Browse the booksField notes from
the high desert
Most of what ends up in a book starts as something seen once and never explained — a wash running brown where it was dry the night before, a clerk who knows more than the file does, a truck stopped on the shoulder with nobody in it.
These are the notes behind the novels: the arroyos, the old mining claims, the two-lane roads out past the gorge. Posted whenever there is something worth writing down, and there usually is.
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The arroyo after the first rain -
What a ghost town still owes -
Two hundred miles of two-lane
Writer’s bio
Before the novels, Silas Thorne spent a career as an investigator for a newspaper, which mostly meant court filings, county records and the kind of paperwork people file when they would rather not be found at all.
He writes from Taos, New Mexico, in the hours before dawn — the hour his third novel is named for. Signed copies are available at readings, and he speaks to libraries, book clubs and writers’ groups across the Southwest.
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All three novels-
Dry Wash Dry Wash
A sheriff’s deputy finds a body in an arroyo after the first monsoon rain.
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The Salt Ledger The Salt Ledger
A missing accountant and a ghost town’s old mining debts.
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Coyote Hour Coyote Hour
The third Deputy Ruiz mystery — out this spring.
