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Show BACK OF BEYOND BOOKS OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK: 9AM TO 10PM Judith Van Gieson's new mystery novel revolves around two southeastern Utah icons, an Everett Reuss-like writer-becomes-legend who disappeared in the Grand Gulch (Cedar Mesa canyon complex) in the 1960s. Discovery in one of those canyons of the legend's missing notebooks draws together an unusual array of interesting characters, academics, rare book dealers, scruffy noir detectives, Vietnam vets, hippie Earth-mothers and the possibly not-so-lost legend himself, to solve an ever deepening mystery. ees VAN GIESON Hardcover: $24.95 | _. Paperback: $5.99. The walls of the canyon were the color of sand and burnt sienna, streaked gray in places where minerals had seeped through. Claire could see several hundred feet down into the canyon. Ahead she could see for miles across the mesa. At a point a mile or so into the canyons, Claire saw two freestanding rocks, several stories high, that had been shaped into sentinels by the elements. In places like this it was easy to understand why people found their destiny in Utah. The hands of the gods appeared everywhere. She knew that petroglyphs were likely to be found near prominent rock formations. The sentinel rocks looked extremely inaccessible to Claire, but the Anasazi favored inaccessible places, where they were protected from intruders. Slickrock Canyon was a side canyon that led into Grand Gulch, the main canyon, but it had side canyons all its own. Sin Nombre was one, but there were others. Cedar Mesa was a labyrinth of canyons that from the air would resemble a series of question marks. Standing at the edge of Slickrock, Claire found that it became easier to believe that Jonathon Vail could have disappeared without a trace. 83 NORTH MAIN STREET P.O. BOX 387 MOAB, UT 84532 (435) 259-5154 WWW.MOAB.NET/BACKOFBEYOND MAPS GUIDEBOOKS GREEN TITLES WESTERN FICTION (ALMOST) COMPLETE WORKS OF EDWARD ABBEY . POETRY WOMENS USUES MYSTERY MAIL ORDERS SPECIAL ORDERS 800.700.2859 |