"A promising new voice." Sandi Ault, Mary Higgins Clark and Willa Award-Winning author of The WILD MYSTERY SERIES

Out-of-work anthropologist Minoa Diamond is bartending at a casino bar in Santa Fe when a childhood friend dies of rattlesnake bite-a tragic accident, everybody says. The grieving dysfunctional family recalls Minoa's derailed adolescence but she tries to help anyway. Big mistake. Pretty soon rattlers turn up in too many places, like a venom trader's ranchette, a New Age goddess cult, a casino parking lot and somebody's bathroom in a shabby housing development. Minoa must chase a rattler killer nobody believes in from the adobe mansions of Santa Fe's historical zone to impoverished villages and ancient Indian pueblos in northern New Mexico. Will she figure out where the venom is coming from before the rattler killer strikes again?

"A high-energy romp through Native American pueblos, casinos, and snake pits." Betty Webb, author of the Lena Jones mysteries