Blog Tour: Rites & Wrong – April 28, 2021

Santa Fe police detective Pascal Ruiz becomes disenchanted with his job after solving the high-profile theft of a Stradivarius violin. That is until the captain asks him, off the record, to look into the disappearance of his niece’s boyfriend, Bobby Pilot.Pilot, staying out at Diamond Tail Ranch south of Santa Fe while his girlfriend has a part in a TV western, has been struggling to write an article on the Penitentes, a religious order known for its Holy Week reenactments of Christ’s last day on earth, while he also prepares for the upcoming Easter procession to Chimayó. Ruiz finds Pilot alive but unconscious in an abandoned pueblo, clothed in a Jesus costume and tied to a cross.He suspects the Penitentes and believes the costume is one recently stolen from a Santa Fe Opera storage building. But the pueblo is on the San Felipe Reservation, not in Ruiz’s jurisdiction. Tribal police take over the case, and Ruiz attempts to wheedle his way in by befriending the tribal police captain. In his desperation to link the two cases, he crosses the line and puts his career in jeopardy.

About the Author

Holly Harrison is a writer and author of the new novel, Rites & Wrongs. Although she has been a writer all her life, spelling never came easy for her. As a youngster she wrote books in her head as she walked to the bus stop and at night she whispered made up stories to her sister after the lights were out. She came to New Mexico to attend graduate school but soon became enamored with the land and people. Now retired from the university, she devotes herself full-time to writing mystery novels. The Land of Enchantment provides a multicultural landscape to unfold crimes and misdemeanors. She lives near Old Town Albuquerque with her husband, Phil, and their two Scottish Terriers. When Harrison is not writing she is riding her Swedish Warmblood, Soleil, in the Bosque near the Rio Grande.