Mexico Mystery

After abandoning a bad job and a worse wife, Carter moves to Mexico to start over. But after a few months of enjoying the sunshine and tacos he's kidnapped by a brutal drug lord who thinks Carter can help bring down an equally ruthless rival. It soon becomes clear that Carter probably won't make it out of the coming war alive, and he decides that if he has to go, he's going to bring his enemies down with him.

The high-end contemporary art gallery scene explodes in Santa Fe, New Mexico with ugly feuds, artistic temperamental egos, sexual entanglements and murder. Vincent Malone, one-time attorney and legal investigator, now down-on-his-luck shuttle driver, is right in the middle of all of the suspenseful action. His new employer, the Blue Door Inn, is hosting a big international artist in Santa Fe for her U.S. debut, and nothing is going smoothly. The artist and gallery owner are threatening each other with physical harm. Before long there is one dead body and plenty of suspects. Malone dusts off...

Basil - the famous sleuth of mousedom - has learned a great deal living in Sherlock Holmes' cellar. Now his sleuthing skills are being put to the test on a wild trip to Mexico! First, mousedom becomes frantic as mice are cracking their teeth on phony cheese made of concrete. Can he find a way to stop whoever is making the counterfeit cheese? Then, he must ferret out the truth when a beloved masterpiece - the Mousa Lisa - goes missing.

Former poetry professor Jodi Luna hasn’t quite adjusted to life as a game warden. Her boss thinks she’s better with animals than humans, and the man she’s seeing wants a real relationship. Still reeling from her husband’s death, Jodi has to admit that she keeps people at a distance.

Violence and tensions along the US-Mexican border have never been higher, sparked by battles between rival drug lords and an increased flow of illegal migrants. To combat the threat, the United States has executed Operation Rampart: a controversial test base in southern California run by Major Jason Richter and TALON, his high-tech special operations unit.

¿PREFERIRÍAS VIVIR UN ENGAÑO O ACEPTAR LA DOLOROSA VERDAD?

LUCÍA es una joven maestra que está por casarse con el hijo de una de las familias más poderosas de Querétaro.

CECILIA se ha dedicado durante años a crear la familia ideal.

MIMÍ acaba de reincorporarse a su trabajo como policía tras un feliz embarazo.

Las tres creen tener una vida perfecta, pero eso está a punto de cambiar.

Despite the government's best efforts to explain it away, after nearly 70 years, Roswell is a story that just won't disappear. Parents who were present during or immediately after the incident may have passed on, but their children know what happened‚ and have paid dearly for their knowledge. These are their stories.

Convencido de que quizá la Ciudad de México no sea el lugar más aconsejable para vivir, pero también de que es tan intrincada y apasionante que resulta imposible abandonarla, Villoro propone este libro escrito desde la devoción del urbanita recalcitrante y maravillado que se despliega como un rompecabezas infinito: los atajos viales, el cine de luchadores, los héroes nacionales, el comercio tepiteño, la tramitología gubernamental, el enigma de las vulcanizadoras, las incontables multitudes, la ingesta de chile, los templos ancestrales.

The once-bustling community of Madrid, New Mexico, provides the background for this fictional story. Using an interview storytelling technique, George Pintar weaves the history, culture, and economy into an intriguing, easy-to-listen tale.

Laying low in Mexico, Tom meets Carmen who is searching for her little sister Rosa, recently abducted and trafficked by a vicious gang. Tom sees that Carmen is likely to get herself killed and decides he is duty-bound to help her. The hunt for Rosa pits them against a terrifying Mexican cartel and ultimately leads them back to the US and a criminal conspiracy to open a vast stretch of the border for the trafficking of guns, drugs, and women.

Greatest Mystery of the Southwest USAPerhaps the most fascinating chapter in Southwest history is the tale of the mysterious, “vanished” Anasazi Indians. Their tremendous achievements can be found in many places, including the spectacular cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde National Park. But the crest of the Anasazi wave was in Chaco Canyon, a shallow, windswept wash in northwest New Mexico. Here, 1,000 years ago, strange and unexplained events unfolded, events which continue to intrigue scientists and visitors today. In this book, you'll delve into the mystery: Why choose inhospitable Chaco...

When King Elsher’s murdered partner falls in Scarlett Beam’s path—literally—the DEA agent and security expert find themselves in a deadly cartel’s crosshairs. The message is clear: stop interfering with their business or they’ll be the next victims. The past taught King to keep professional and personal separate. But Scarlett’s wit and determination tempt him to break his code. And then his son is kidnapped, raising the stakes even further. One wrong step can get them killed. Can King get justice…and keep them all alive?

Selected as a Finalist for the 2022 Killer Nashville Claymore Award for Best Mystery! TROUBLE IN VALDEZ COUNTY is the first novel in the new Doc Gunther Mystery series, which is centered around a modern-day Texas Ranger assigned to the Texas border with Mexico. A rural Texas border community, mired in corruption, on a lark elects a twenty-seven-year-old woman with absolutely no law enforcement experience as the county sheriff. This throws a wrench in the plans of the local politicos and their cartel backers. When the body of a young woman is discovered during the annual Javelina Harvest, an...

Wayne Sharp newer expected his life to turn like that... Dishonorably discharged, he tries to build his life from the beginning in Clayton, New Mexico. He never expects to be attracted so deeply to the woman in trouble, in trouble beyond hope... Trying to help her, he becomes involved in the dark secrets of the town. The shared experiences in Clayton continue to draw Wayne and Candy closer as Wayne tries to determine, who really is in charge in Clayton. And why are they so concerned with Candy and himself. Or was it just he that they were interested in. The deeper Wayne got, the crazier it ...

It is 2023. Tension over illegal immigration across the U.S. Mexico border is rising. Mark Springer is in Mexico City for a conference on the “assisted migration” of species trapped by climate change. While there he encounters a young Guatemalan boy, one of 20,000 “rat children” surviving on the streets of the city, who is trying to get to America to search for his father. In helping the boy he becomes enmeshed in a scheme to sell illegal unaccompanied minors into servitude in the U.S. In probing the scheme with long-time collaborator, Justin Tso, he discovers a controlling figure ...

On a visit to Chiche'n Itza Chris goes up the great pyramid - but never comes down. Taylor goes looking for him when she can't get anyone else to and learns more than she ever really wanted to know about ancient Mayan construction. The police find a body. Taylor gets "found" by a Chris look alike with some very determined and down right menacing followers and it gets difficult to tell the good guys from the bad.

La lista de sospechosos de tanta desgracia y vergüenza nacional incluye al presidente Plutarco Elías Calles, al fundador de la crom, Luis N. Morones, a la renombrada madre Conchita, y a una serie de oscuros personajes encumbrados del clero de México, quienes organizaron un boicot comercial a nivel nacional para poner de rodillas al gobierno y cerraron los templos para privar de consuelo espiritual a la feligresía y enardecerla.

Young readers will enjoy this book as they learn the facts and mysteries of sea turtles. Sea turtles have roamed the world's oceans for 100 million years. These majestic creatures live life traveling the world's oceans. They travel hundreds, even thousands of miles.The beautiful illustrations found within this book will help the reader identify and contrast the common types of sea turtles found along the Gulf coast. Seven types of sea turtles live in the Earth's ocean waters and six of these can be found in the Gulf of Mexico. These include the: green, leatherback, loggerhead, hawksbill, ...

In her exciting debut novel, Dilemma, Jan Dunlap weaves a page-turning tale of international romance, drugs and intrigue, loosely based on events and characters from her past. The novel, set mainly at Lake Chapala in Mexico, takes us back to the 1970s. Natalie, a beautiful young DEA agent, is sent to investigate an alleged king-pin in the drugs world who lives in Ajijic. Her life soon becomes far more complicated than she bargained for. The cover artwork is by Oliver Rivas, one of the author's grandsons.

Surrounded by towering pyramids on Mexico City's Walk of the Dead, a frightened yet resolute young woman searches for a perilous truth and for the beloved parent she thought was gone forever. But there are dark secrets lurking in the shadows of antiquity, a conspiracy she never imagined, and enemies who are determined that Carol Farley will not leave Mexico alive.