What do people in northern New Mexico care about, and what's so different about The City Different? Find out as Matt Kelly talks live on the town square with provocative and informative sources. Discover what's going on in Santa Fe. This book is a compendium of the cream of Matt Kelly's radio interviews from the Plaza of Santa Fe; the most important, the most controversial, the most informative, and the most interesting... in short... THE BEST OF FROM THE PLAZA!

The Best of From The Plaza

Yi, Song

Baxter, Ardeth

Lone Butte Press

The Queen of Motel Boulevard: The Life and Times of Polly Hofelman Laffrenzen : (based on a true story)

Ruybal, Jay Dee

From the rear cover of this 154 page book: "Gold.....that elusive and nearly useless metal the first Europeans desired above all else. For almost 300 years in New Mexico the Spanish searched for the gold of 'El Norte' without success, and all the time it was right beneath their feet. The Ortiz gold rush began quietly, almost in secret, but it grew until a tenth of the entire population of the province were digging for gold in these mountains. In time, even the U.S. Congress would do its part, turning less than ten acres into a hundred-square-mile golden gift for some of its own. Inside this book you will read of the Santa Fe Trail, the Santa Fe Ring, the coup of Gold Fields, Ltd., of the forgotten towns of Dolores and San Pedro, and of the boom-and-bust towns of Cerrillos, Madrid, and Golden. Discover Dona Tules, Jose Francisco Ortiz, Jean Baptiste Tournier, Ulysses Grant, Stephen Elkins, and Thomas Edison's great failure. All paths cross that lead to the Gold of the Ortiz Mountains."

The Gold of the Ortiz Mountains: A Story of New Mexico and the West's First Major Gold Rush

Baxter, William

Santa Fe. 1782. The colony of New Mexico teeters on the brink of extinction. Unknown enemies sabotage the desperately needed peace between the Spanish and Comanches. To whom can Governor Anza turn? Unexpectedly, aid comes from the least likely of his subjects, one as invisible as a lizard on a wall. Nando Aguilar, the half-breed son of a Spanish don and a Ute slave, finds himself recruited to be the eyes and ears for Anza's government. Caught between warring cultures, Nando soon becomes deeply embroiled in murder and intrigue. 
Immerse yourself in the world of one the greatest governors of New Mexico and gallop across the lands of El Norte with the wily Nando. The King's Lizard is a fascinating and colorful journey back into time, rich in historical detail, full of treason and revenge, with enough red herrings and plot turns to dazzle the most ardent mystery fan. 
Illustrated with maps after the style of the eighteenth century cartographer and explorer Don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco, and complemented with a bibliography of sources that is a substantial must-read list for Anza's New Mexico, The Kings Lizard is both a super-charged mystery and a historically authentic visit to New Mexico's past. Students and study groups have chosen this book as a lively introduction to New Mexico in the late colonial period.
". . . a rarity among the lightweight historical novels knocking around bookstores nowadays . . . a hell of a saga."--The Santa Fe New Mexican
"Christie's plot twists are so well woven the reader keeps reading late at night . . . sure to delight the most discriminating historical devotee as well as the mystery fan."--Southwest BookViews

The King's Lizard: A Tale of Murder and Deception in Old Santa Fe

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Christie, Pamela

Mystery

Tiffany Blue: The True Story of Turquoise, Tiffany &amp; James P. McNulty

Tiffany Blue: The True Story of Turquoise, Tiffany & James P. McNulty in Territo

Patricia McCraw

A romp of a mystery that takes place in 1782, in and around Santa Fe in the ancient Kingdom of New Mexico. Gangs of slavers scour the land, priests deal in captives and guns, and there's a traitor deep within. Nando, inadvertent sleuth, gets drafted into Governor Anza's spy network--young, uncertain, half Spanish gentry and half Ute slave, he is given the task of setting all to rights. Based on good historical bones, The King's Lizard is a page-turner that plunges you into the excitement of an earlier era. Here's a Time Machine you can hold in your hand.

The King's Lizard

Pamela Christie

Dead Lizard's Dance is a historical mystery set in colonial New Mexico in 1782. This novel is the eagerly awaited sequel to the award winning mystery, The King's Lizard. A man is dead, hung cruelly by his elbows, spinning Santa Fe into chaos at the very moment the King's inquisitors arrive. Despite Governor Anza's every effort, the deaths continue, so horrible they are deemed to be the work of witches. Pamela Christie's inadvertent sleuth, Nando, is ordered to find the killers, this time in Santa Fe's underworld of displaced women: the misfits, the stolen, the abandoned. But nothing is as it seems, and Nando, cannot be sure if the ladies he loves are in fact the very women he seeks for murder. 
Constructed on sound historical bones, Dead Lizard's Dance transports the reader into a compelling time--early Santa Fe at its fiercest and best.

Dead Lizard's Dance

Gold And The Ortiz Mountain Grant: A New Mexico History and Reference Guide

Reference

Lizard's Kill: A Tale of Treasure and Terror in the Kingdom of New Mexico

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