Megan Montoya has come to New Mexico with her daughter, Lizzie, to begin a career in photography. One morning she opens her newspaper and five jagged stones clatter to the floor. A jeweler identifies them as emeralds, and an attractive archeologist believes they might be the legendary emerald arrowheads used by the Pima Indians four centuries ago to lure away the Spaniards.
Megan’s paperboy goes missing, and her house is searched. Tension escalates as Megan finds her only client is hiding something, and that the man she is falling in love with may have ulterior motives. When Lizzie is kidnapped, Megan becomes embroiled in a separatist plot, bargaining with a cabal’s crazed leader to spare her daughter’s life.
Eye of the Mountain God is Penny Rudolph’s fourth crime novel. Combining a cast of maverick characters and nonstop action, she offers a unique and captivating story about one mother’s love and the causes that some people are willing to die, and kill, for.
I've worked as a bartender, truck driver, chile picker, musician, science writer, and medical writer. I've taught high school English, as well as journalism at New Mexico State University.
My fourth mystery/thriller EYE OF THE MOUNTAIN GOD was released April 2010 by St. Martin's Press. An autistic little girl who knows things she can't know, a woman who finds five emerald arrowheads wrapped in her morning newspaper, an angry man who was pleased with the events of nine-eleven and wants to improve on the deeds of Ché Guevara--these are the ingredients. They prove to be an explosive mix.
My first novel THICKER THAN BLOOD and its sequel LIFEBLOOD, feature Rachel Chavez, a recovering alcoholic who owns a parking garage in downtown Los Angeles. Booklist calls Rachel "one of the most refreshing heroines to wander into the crime genre...."
My award-winning historical--and somewhat feminist--mystery/thriller LISTEN TO THE MOCKINGBIRD tells of the Civil War in New Mexico, murder, a lost gold mine,and a woman's compelling secret. Marry Summerhayes is a rancher determined to conceal her past, A stranger carrying a map of her land is murdered, Texans invade her valley, and soon disaster is stalking her. Southwest BookViews says "Be prepared to forget meals and stay up all night if you start reading this book."
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