Review
“Laid-back, skeptical Joshua finds lots of quirky kooks and crooks.” —Kirkus Reviews “Easy, breezy . . . brash and energetic.” —The New York Times Book Review “One of crime fiction’s most reliable publishers of edgy noir.” —Booklist
From the Publisher
At a meeting of Santa Fes leading New Age healers, Quentin Bouvier, a magician and possibly a reincarnated Egyptian pharaoh, has been hanged from the rafters. The police quickly arrest Giacamo Bernardi, a tarot reader, and charge him with the murder.
From the Inside Flap
At a meeting of Santa Fe's leading New Age healers, Quentin Bouvier, a magician and possibly a reincarnated Egyptian pharaoh, has been hanged from the rafters. The police quickly arrest Giacamo Bernardi, a tarot reader, and charge him with the murder.
From the Back Cover
At a meeting of Santa Fe's leading New Age healers, Quentin Bouvier, a magician and possibly a reincarnated Egyptian pharaoh, has been hanged from the rafters. The police quickly arrest Giacamo Bernardi, a tarot reader, and charge him with the murder.
About the Author
Walter Satterthwait (b. 1946) is an author of mysteries and historical fiction. A fan of mystery novels from a young age, he spent high school immersed in the works of Dashiell Hammett and Mickey Spillane. While working as a bartender in New York in the late 1970s, he wrote his first book: an adventure novel, Cocaine Blues (1979), about a drug dealer on the run from a pair of killers. After his second thriller, The Aegean Affair (1982), Satterthwait created his best-known character, Santa Fe private detective Joshua Croft. Beginning with Wall of Glass (1988), Satterthwait wrote five Croft novels, concluding the series with 1996’s Accustomed to the Dark. In between Croft books, he wrote mysteries starring historical figures, including Miss Lizzie (1989), a novel about Lizzie Borden, and Wilde West (1991), a western mystery starring Oscar Wilde. His most recent novel is Dead Horse (2007), an account of the mysterious death of Depression-era pulp writer Raoul Whitfield.
