Santa Fe Noir

Ariel Gore, Элизабет Ли, Byron F. Aspaas, Kevin Atkinson, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Ana Castillo, Katie Johnson, Ana June, Israel Francisco Haros Lopez, Tomas Moniz, Cornelia Read, James Reich, Barbara Robidoux, Miriam Sagan, Hida Viloria, Candace Walsh, Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

Серия: Akashic Noir

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In 1993, a Santa Fe man named Bill Faurot started to transplant a rosebush that was dying. All the other rosebushes in his backyard seemed to thrive.

He sunk his shovel deeper and struck what he thought was a rock, but dug up a human skull.

Local lore says he figured the thing was too ancient to have kin. After all, finding bodies isn’t uncommon here. New Mexico is the only state in the union that actually requires we bury our dead the proverbial six feet under, but there’s a risk any time we take shovel to ground: the other bodies could be anywhere.

We might discover someone else’s dead when we’re trying to bury our own.

One block of homes near Fort Marcy Park was built right over a nineteenth-century Spanish-Indian community graveyard. Archeologists say an unknown number of bodies are still piled, one on top of the next, under those homes.

Faurot set the skull he’d found on a shelf as a bookend.

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