State`s complex history plays a colorful role in thriller
(WorldNews Mexico)

“The Scorpion’s Tail” has been ranked as high as No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller lists for Hardcover Fiction and for Combined Print and E-Book Fiction, co-author Douglas Preston said. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child know how to write thrillers in tandem. Many have been bestsellers. They’re back with their latest propulsive thriller “The Scorpion’s Tail: A Nora Kelly Novel.” It is set in the present in various locales in New Mexico, though the center of the action is in the fictional ghost town of High Lonesome. A desiccated corpse is found in the cellar of an abandoned building in the dust-encased town. The reader...