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Meet the Local Authors Panel

Discover the bestselling and award-winning books of the local authors participating in JCPL's Signature Author Event: Emily Littlejohn, Barbara Nickless, Manuel Ramos, David Heska Wanbli Weiden and Erika T. Wurth.

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  • Deputy Gemma Moore investigates a murder that connects to a summer of crimes that began nearly three decades ago.
    Book, 2016New York : Minotaur Books, 2016. — FICTION LITTLEJOHN
  • Detective Gemma Monroe returns from maternity leave and, on her first day back, responds to an anonymous call reporting a lurker at the high school. Instead, she finds the body of a best-selling author.
    Book, 2017New York : Minotaur Books, 2017. — FICTION LITTLEJOHN
  • Detective Gemma Monroe investigates the disappearance of Sari Chesney, the assistant curator at Colorado's Cedar Valley History Museum.
    Book, 2018New York : Minotaur Books, 2018. — FICTION LITTLEJOHN
  • As the sins of the town fathers come back to haunt the present Cedar Valley residents, Detective Gemma Monroe must find a skilled killer hiding in plain sight.
    Book, 2019New York : Minotaur Books, [2019] — FICTION LITTLEJOHN
  • Chicago detective Addie Bisset and her friend Dr. Evan Wilding, a brilliant forensic semiotician, must investigate a ritualistic slaying before the killer takes more victims.
    Book, 2021[Seattle, WA] : Thomas & Mercer, [2021] — FICTION NICKLESS
  • Dr. Wilding and Detective Bisset return to work together to solve the murder of an esteemed historian, who also happens to be Dr. Wilding's mentor.
    Book, 2022Seattle : Thomas & Mercer, [2022] — FICTION NICKLESS
  • Wilding and Bisset are joined by Wilding's brother Evan to unravel a series of appalling crimes in a panicked city.
    Book, 2023Seattle : Thomas & Mercer, [2023] — FICTION NICKLESS
  • Denver attorney Luis Montez discovers a connection between the murder of a college friend and the killing of another one many years ago during their student activist days.
    Book, 2023Houston, Texas : Arte Público Press, [2023] — FICTION RAMOS
  • Attorney Luis Montez and Felix "Gato" Guerrero are childhood friends who have survived numerous obstacles. Montez gets caught up helping his friend and his new beloved escape her dangerous husband.
    Book, 2024Houston, Texas : Arte Público Press, [2024] — FICTION RAMOS
  • Life looks good to Luis Montez, who has just scored a surprising courtroom victory. Within hours, though, Montez's outlook sours as he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his last client.
    Book, 2024Houston, Texas : Arte Público Press, [2024] — FICTION RAMOS
  • Montez is approached by a private detective, Conrad "Rad" Valdez, who's working a missing-persons case. Apparently, the lawyer was one of the last to see Rachel on a Mexican beach.
    Book, 2025Houston, Texas : Arte Público Press, [2025] — FICTION RAMOS
  • Virgil Wounded Horse, the half-Lakota / half-white narrator of Weiden's debut, is a fists-for-hire enforcer on South Dakota's Rosebud Indian Reservation.
    Book, 2020[New York, NY] : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — FICTION WEIDEN
  • Never Whistle at Night

    An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

    Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night — it can cause evil spirits to appear — and even follow you home. Lifting up an exciting array of authors, including panelist David Heska Wanbli Weiden, this anthology will be a…
    Book, 2023New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2023. — 813.608 NEVER
  • The Perfect Crime

    Around the World in 22 Murders

    From Lagos to Mexico City and beyond, 22 bestselling crime writers from diverse cultures, including panelist David Heska Wanbli Weiden, come together from across the world in a razor-sharp and deliciously sinister collection of crime stories.
    Book, 2022London : HarperCollins Publishers, 2022. — 808.8387 PERFECT
  • An Indigenous woman must face her past when she discovers a bracelet haunted by her mother's spirit.
    Book, 2022New York : Flatiron Books, 2022. — FICTION WURTH
  • A terrifying and resonant novel about a woman who uses her unique gift to learn the truth about her sister's death.
    Book, 2025New York : Flatiron Books, 2025. — FICTION WURTH
  • Matthew is growing up in hell until he finally decides to hit the streets of Farmington to drink himself to death. But he is saved and cleaned up by a man named Chris, who initiates him into the Native American gang selling heroin.
    Book, 2019Albany, NY : Excelsior Editions, an imprint of State University of New York Press, [2019] — FICTION WURTH
  • The 14 stories, including entries from Littlejohn, Nickless, Ramos, Weiden and Wurth, in this noir anthology span time periods, neighborhoods and milestones in the Mile High City's history.
    Book, 2022Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2022] — 813.0872 DENVER
  • Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett takes on environmental terrorists, rogue federal land managers, animal mutilators, crazed cowboy hitmen, corrupt bureaucrats, homicidal animal rights advocates and dysfunctional families in C.J. Box's bestselling…
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