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"Christine Barber is a new comer to the Southwest in the feeling the Alternative Kid is her first book. But she's an excellent sense for the area and for the household contacts that impose its powerful neighborhood bonds."—THE NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW Every year, the folks of Santa Fe collect together for the burning of the four-story-high number named Zozobra, an area custom that that happens throughout the Fiesta de Santa Fe. Early the following day, whilst the looks of the Fiesta party still echo through the roads, head is found in the ashes of Zozobra.  As Detective Sergeant Gilbert Montoya begins to research the situation, troubling features of individual bones start showing at spiritual sites round the town.