Rich Curtin Books in Order

A ranch hand is murdered in remote canyon country near Moab, leaving behind a bullet and an ancient potsherd. Deputy Sheriff Manny Rivera follows the clues into an artifact-smuggling scheme where greed, local pressure, and a long-hidden cave collide.

A skeleton found above Labyrinth Canyon belongs to a controversial journalist who never stopped investigating. Deputy Manny Rivera digs through the dead man's files, uncovering old secrets, a bus accident, and several motives for murder.

As protests over looted Native artifacts turn ugly in Moab, a San Francisco collector is found murdered in the LaSal Mountains. Deputy Manny Rivera must separate activism from revenge before more lawless acts spiral out of control.

When Sunshine, a young resident of an isolated desert commune, is found strangled after a storm, every neighbor becomes a suspect. Deputy Manny Rivera enters the group's strange history and secrets while the killer remains close at hand.

A powerful industrial chairman wants an environmental congressman defeated, and he hires a political operative to inflame old land-use battles in rural Utah. As the scheme spreads through Moab, dangerous consequences hit the people caught in its path.

New evidence in an old murder sends Deputy Manny Rivera from Moab to an isolated northern New Mexico village. Distrustful residents, local beliefs, and a chain of mysterious deaths complicate his search for a killer who has stayed hidden for years.

An armed militia member is shot while hunting bighorn sheep poachers in Utah's remote backcountry. Deputy Manny Rivera finds a second crime linked to an old Ute medicine man and must untangle history, murder, and a hard choice about justice.

A San Francisco couple is found shot dead beside an abandoned airstrip in southeast Utah, and the evidence suggests murder-suicide. Manny Rivera is unconvinced, especially when their detour and 1960s-style clothes raise more questions than answers.

Moab rockhound Iggy Webb is found shot in his motorhome, with only a crumpled note of figures left behind. Deputy Manny Rivera struggles to find a motive until the case opens onto a conspiracy driven by greed and human weakness.

A young historian researching the outlaw past of the Whitmire Ranch is found murdered in the LaSal Mountains. Deputy Manny Rivera must discover what Rusty Randall uncovered, and whether the ranch's old stories conceal a very current danger.

After an accident ends his hiking life, backcountry guide Derek Webster uses a camera drone to explore Utah's canyons again. When he is shot dead in the mountains, Manny Rivera suspects the apparent hunting accident was deliberate.

A dog digging near Fisher Mesa uncovers human remains, and Deputy Manny Rivera learns the victim was murdered decades earlier. With no identification and few leads, he faces the hardest task of his career, naming the dead and finding their killer.