I hope 2023 will be a fine year for you. Consider starting it off with a reading from Bones in the Back Forty at Tucson Botanical Gardens on January 14th.
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Bones in the Back Forty takes place partly in fictional Copperton, New Mexico — in the Gila region. Here’s a bit about the book:
A gardener digs up an old skeleton on the grounds of Shandley Gardens. Volunteer coordinator Bea Rivers discovers that the victim, a man who disappeared in 1969, may be connected to a small town in New Mexico, where he’d made quite a few enemies among amateur archaeologists. There may be some connection with illegal artifacts . . . and with Shandley Gardens’ founders. As Bea is drawn into the investigation, she meets an ever-increasing cast of quirky suspects. What began as an intriguing puzzle becomes considerably more threatening, while Bea negotiates single parenthood, a long distance relationship, and huge new job responsibilities. She needs to untangle what is happening, for Shandley Gardens and for the safety of her own family.