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Haiku 21.2: an anthology of contemporary English language haiku

I have four haiku in this volume, which presents haiku published between 2011 & 2020. It's edited by Lee Gurga & Scott Metz, and I'm deeply honored to be included in this Modern Haiku Press compilation.

For more information, or to order:
https://www.modernhaiku.org/mhbooks/Haiku21-2.html

Badlands by Douglas Preston

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Possibly the most solidly Southwestern of this Preston/Child series so far. Dr. Nora Kelly & her Albuquerque FBI associate Corrie Swanson get pulled into a case which quickly accelerates from a few mysterious deaths in the New Mexico badlands to a full-blown cult investigation near Chaco Canyon. There are Ancestral Puebloan myths, an ancient massacre, potential skinwalkers, academia gone wrong . . . & all with two intelligent, capable female lead characters.

There is also a strong thread of supernatural possibility running through this thriller, which is pretty usual in the Preston/Child Pendergast series but less frequent in this one. I was delighted to find it, & hope future entries in this series continue to go just a touch beyond the mundane.

This book / audio includes an Authors' Note, which does a fine job of sorting out fact & fiction. Being a Southwestern archaeology fan, I wound up with a lot of questions by the end of the novel -- all of which were answered here.



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