You Don't Need an Enemy — Richard Martin Stern

SHE WAS A PATRON OF THE ARTS -- UNTIL SOMEONE SHOT HER WITH A .357 MAGNUM

Start with the dead body of New Mexico's venerable Miss Lucy Carruthers. Go to the gun that killed her, belonging to a handsome young artist with an alibi steeped in kinky sex. Then head for Santo Cristo's darkest side...

Detective Johnny Ortiz's ancestors lived on the land before it was America. Now he's finding rich dilettantes, two-way swingers and macho chicos under every rock he turns up-and more than enough motives for murder. The trouble is, the tracks aren't leading to a killer, and violence is swirling in the southwestern sand. When his lovely black girlfriend is hurt, and a dead boy turns up on the mesa, the half-Apache cop's blood begins to burn. In the heat of the Santo Cristo sun, a mad killer is on the loose--and Ortiz's hunt has just begun.