Deadly Heat
Three Arizona authors talk about how the setting, especially the deadly heat, adds to their mystery stories.
| Where: | Integrated Learning Center Room 130 (Seats 143, Wheelchair accessible)  |
| When: | Sun, Mar 15, 10:00 am - 10:55 am |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Area - Integrated Learning Center (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Mystery / Thrillers |
| Moderator: | Cayce Blanchard |
Panelists
Christina EstesChristina Estes is an Emmy award-winning reporter who draws on two decades of experience for her mysteries. Inspired by her reporting in Phoenix, Estes' newest novel, "The Story That Wouldn't Die," opens with a real-life elevator mishap at City Hall and propels fictional reporter Jolene Garcia to uncover a web of betrayal and murder tied to powerful people....
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Anne HillermanAfter a long career as a non-fiction writer, Anne Hillerman published her first mystery, "Spider Woman's Daughter" in 2013. The story and the series that followed, continued the adventures of Navajo law enforcement characters created by her father, Tony Hillerman, and added many new twists....
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Becky MastermanBecky Masterman is the author of "Maternal Instinct" and the Brigid Quinn series, including "Her Prodical Husband." Her latest book in the series is "If a Face Could Kill." The other four novels include, "Rage Against the Dying," "Fear of Darkness," "A Twist of the Knife", and We Were Killers Once....
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Books:
The Story That Wouldn't Die
A Mystery
Christina Estes
Mystery / Thrillers
St. Martin's Publishing Group
August 2025
ISBN 9781250364135
320 pages
Buy nowEmmy Award-winning reporter Christina Estes uses her twenty-year career for inspiration for her mysteries.
In The Story That Wouldn’t Die, Jolene Garcia refuses to stop investigating, but someone is determined to kill the story—and maybe her.
Phoenix, Arizona TV reporter Jolene Garcia is fresh off winning her first Emmy and committed to covering stories that matter to her community. But Jolene’s managers want stories that grab immediate attention and generate clicks, not ones that take time to develop.
When a beloved small business owner dies in a car crash, Jolene isn’t convinced it was an accident. He’d been raising questions about who keeps getting lucrative deals at city hall—questions that powerful people don’t want answered. The deeper Jolene digs, the more suspicious things she uncovers.
Exposing greed, ambition, and deception could become the biggest story of Jolene’s career. Her bosses tell her to drop it. But there’s a story here, and Jolene’s going to find it. More/less
Shadow of the Solstice
A Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito Novel
Anne Hillerman
Mystery / Thrillers
HarperCollins Publishers
January 2026
ISBN 9780063344860
336 pages
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If a Face Could Kill
Briget Quinn #5
Becky Masterman
Mystery / Thrillers
Severn House
March 2026
ISBN 9781448317899
272 pages
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