Set, in part, in the tiny town of Tularosa, New Mexico, Tularosa by Michael McGarrity is a story of muder, mystery, history, and culture. Kevin Kerney, an injured, ex-chief of detectives for the Santa Fe police department, must come out of retirement when his godson, Sammy Yazzi, a Navajo, Native American soldier, goes missing from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. As the story unfolds, Kerney must dig deep into stories from his own past, as well as stories of the native people of the region to find Sammy. What he discovers, though, besides Sammy 's body is a ring of smugglers and their operation to carry pieces of United States history out of the country to sell in the black market. Throughout his first novel, McGarrity, while telling…