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Holly Harrison, now retired from the university, devotes herself full-time to writing mystery novels. The Land of Enchantment provides a multicultural landscape to unfold crimes and misdemeanors. She lives near Old Town Albuquerque with her husband and two Scottish Terriers, Angus and Sasha.
More from Holly
I find the mystery genre provides a stage in which to develop characters fully. After all, life is full of mysteries. New Mexico affords a rich multicultural landscape to cultivate both the characters and story. Rites & Wrongs is the second in a planned three-book series featuring the Santa Fe detective Pascal Ruiz and his friend Gillian Jasper. The first book, The Ghost Notes, interweaves the history and lore of the violin with New Mexico’s Land of Enchantment. I am editing the third book in the series, New Territory. My advice to writers is to write. That’s the easy part.
Books
Title: Death in the Land of Enchantment
Publisher: Koehler Books (April 22, 2025)
Genre: Mystery
Patrol Officer Louise Sanchez knows the Northern New Mexico roads, yet when she fills in for Detective Pascal Ruiz, who’s been put on leave, she finds herself in unfamiliar territory. The first week on the job she is assigned to a murder investigation that’s as wild as the untamed New Mexico landscape around her. When it’s revealed that the victim was a high-powered attorney found with a butcher knife in his heart and a “date rape” drug in his system, Officer Sanchez knows she’s way out of her league. Determined to solve her first case and feeling pressure from a growing number of clues that don’t add up, she decides to forgo standard police procedures and follow her intuition with the help of Pascal Ruiz. But as she blazes her trail to solving the murder, it soon becomes clear that she may lose the case to higher powers.
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Title: Rites & Wrongs
Publisher: Golden Word Books (January 5, 2021)
Genre: Mystery
Santa Fe detective, Pascal Ruiz, becomes disenchanted with his job after solving a high profile case involving a stolen Stradivarius violin. That is until the Captain asks him, off the record, to look into the disappearance of his niece’s boyfriend, Bobby Pilot. Pilot, staying out at a ranch where his girlfriend has a part in a TV western, struggles to write an article on the Penitentes, known for their Holy Week reenactments of Christ’s last day on earth, and the upcoming Easter Procession to Chimayo. Ruiz finds Pilot unconscious in an abandoned pueblo, clothed in a Jesus costume and tied to a cross.