Dead Hot Cover and Blurb

For those of you wondering if I've fallen off the edge of the world, well, yes...that's called the Dakotas!

But the next book, which should be out by March, takes place mostly in the Land of Enchantment aka New Mexico. The always excellent Glendon S. Haddix of Streetlight Graphics did the cover.

Here is the blurb for the book...

After losing a brutal election, Sheriff Karen Mehaffey and her detective-uncle, Marek Okerlund, are headed from South Dakota to New Mexico for a long delayed vacation and job hunt. But they'd barely arrived when a man dies on their motel doorstep. With his last words, he asks them to tell Arne Okerlund, Karen's father, that he's sorry... but for what? Fated for a busman's holiday, Karen and Marek find themselves entangled in a case hotter than the New Mexico sun.