Sandra’s body is found on train tracks, and her death is ruled a suicide.īut Nicky has a passel of unanswered questions about the ruling. Initially, Nicky is dealing with the case of Sandra Deering, a member of the pueblo and soon-to-be-graduated University of New Mexico student who has disappeared. The protagonist is Nicky Matthews, a sergeant on the pueblo’s police force who is working to fit together the pieces of a deadly puzzle.
In her newly published novel, Potenza named the pueblo Tsiba’ashi D’yini, translated as Fire-Sky. Potenza’s promising debut mystery “Hearts of the Missing” is set on a fictional, Keres-speaking pueblo off Interstate 25 between Santa Ana and Cochiti pueblos. Those authors set many of their successful mysteries in Indian Country the Hillermans’ and the Thurlos’ on the Navajo reservation and Doss’ on the Ute reservation. Potenza writes in the mystery tradition of New Mexicans who have come before her – Tony Hillerman, Anne Hillerman, James Doss and Aimee and David Thurlo. Las Cruces author Carol Potenza is in good company. 8, at Collected Works, 202 Galisteo St., Santa Fe. 8, at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande NW, Albuquerque at noon Saturday, Dec. 6, at Barnes & Noble, Mesilla Valley Mall, 700 S. Carol Potenza discusses and signs copies of “Hearts of the Missing” at 6:30 p.m.
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