Why a Booktrail?
2000s: At the four corners of the world, where does a killer go next?
Path of the Dead
What you need to know before your trail
A 16 year girl is brutally murdered and violated further following her death. The monster responsible is ready for his next victim
TV reporter Sharon Nakai is on her way somewhere to cover a story when she is kidnapped by ..the same monster? Her cameraman is killed but Sharon disappears
Arthur, Sharon’s husband sets out to track the killer down and save his wife. He is a former member of the Shadow Wolves, a tactical unit part of Homeland Security. When he tracks down the killer, he has to try and find his wife and get them both safely out from a killer’s trap.
Locations
Reset- America/ USA - New Mexico
- A: Albuquerque - Cibola National Forest
- B: Farmington - airport
- C: Belen - Fred Harvey house
- D: Belen- airport
- America./ USA - Arizona
- E: Chiricahua Country
- F: Teec Nos Pos - Four Corners Monument
Travel Guide
New Mexico
The novel takes place in a very unique location – in a Navajo area and on the border of 4 US states – New Mexico – Arizona, Colorado and Utah
The landscape really adds to the complex case, the complex police case and the fact that an Apache mau be responsible for the most horrific of crimes.
Belen:
Sharon is headed here to write a “fluff peoice” on a house good for tourism . The Fred Harvey house ‘ As in Judy Garland and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe”
In 1878 Gred Harvey began a partnership with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. He was given exclusive rights to operate the eating places along the railway’s routes. He changed the country’s rail travel industry.
The landscape
On the plane Sharon studies New Mexico’s landscape:
..New Mexico’s deeply cut and textured surface. How the mountains wrinkled this way up from the vast plain, and the brown and ochre desert gave way to green forests; how the wandering lines of blacktop ran like varicose blood vessels across the land. When she was flying, she saw no boundaries and no counties, no fences of any kind. The land was as open as free as it had been in the centuries before the Europeans arrived and began carving things up for themselves.”
Cibola National Forest
A gorgeous place in real life but a crime scene here. 1.6 million acres of trees, meadows & mountains, with campgrounds, climbing areas & scenic trails.
The Navajo Nation
The Navajo Nation is a Native American territory covering about 17,544,500 acres, occupying portions of northeastern Arizona, southeastern Utah, and northwestern New Mexico in the United States
Beautiful imagery and interesting Navajo teachings are interwoven into this story:
“The trail he had chosen took them through a wide arching horseshoe pattern through Arthur’s part of northwestern New Mexico. He had handled the usual tourist questions with ease, trying to teach them a little about the Navajo way of life, and a respect for the land that most people had long forgotten”
“You’re on Navajo land at our invitation, My ancestors were here long before yours hopped a tramp freighter from whatever country they came from”
Booktrailer Review
Susan: @thebooktrailer
Navajo wind – I wanted to read this since I’ve been to this part of the world and even stood in the very spot of Four Corners for ..well five minutes as it turned out. Still, I’d not read a thriller set here before!
Fascinating from the point of view of the setting – that’s what attracted me to this book unsuprinsgly as it delves into many areas surrounding the Navajo Apache reserve which covers much of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. Having a criminal suspected of coming fromThe first chapter did put me off though as it lowered the tone for the rest of the novel and I nearly didn’t go on.
It’s not the most exciting novel in that the chase and the kidnaps are nothing too out of the ordinary, but the context of the political, police and social history of the place interested me a lot. I would definitely want to read what ever the author writes next and I hope this is the start of a very unique series.
New Mexico traditions and landscape, Apache culture and more play a huge role in this thriller and I’d love to see more in future. Shadow Wolves too. I’m quite taken with it all.
That Navajo wind blows a chilly breeze into the thriller landscape despite the heat!
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Navajo Wind
Destination : New Mexico, Arizona Author/Guide: Mark Edward Langley Departure Time: 2000s
Back to ResultsWhere Next?
