Dead Lizard's Dance - Softcover

Pamela Christie

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24 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966686098 ISBN 13: 9780966686098

Publisher: Lone Butte Press, 2009

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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.

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About the Author:

Pamela Christie, long time Santa Fean, spent seven years researching and writing her latest historical mystery. Pam has explored New Mexico since 1970, gathering stories of the people who lived in the rugged kingdom centuries ago.

Review:

After the resounding success of Pamela Christie's 2004 novel, The King's Lizard, it is a treat to delve into its sequel, Dead Lizard's Dance. Christie has created another compelling and credible tale proving herself an imaginative storyteller with a down-to-earth grasp of early New Mexico. It adds up to high historical adventure and a page turning read. --David Grant Noble

Filled with rumors of witchcraft, blatant infidelity, betrayal, greed, magic love potions and murder, Dead Lizard's Dance is a highly readable romp through a juicy era of Southwestern history. Best of all, Pamela Christie's smart and likable underdog detective is back, solving crimes in 18th century Santa Fe. It's been a long time since I've read a book that informed and delighted me as much as this one. --Anne Hillerman

Take an historical novel set in Spanish Colonial New Mexico, add suspicions of witchcraft, lace it with a rousing good mystery, and you've got a winner in Pamela Christie's Dead Lizard's Dance. --Michael McGarrity

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