Ramona Emerson will present new paperback edition of 'Exposure' at two events

IN SANTA FE AND ALBUQUERQUE

Ramona Emerson will present the new paperback edition of her thriller “Exposure” at bookstores in Santa Fe and Albuquerque this week.

Emerson will be in Santa Fe at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, at Collected Works, 202 Galisteo St., and in Albuquerque at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW.

“Exposure” is the second volume in a two-book series. The two novels feature the character of Rita Todacheene, a Navajo forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque Police Department.

In “Exposure” she is called on to help the Gallup police find a serial killer who is targeting Native people. The murders are disguised as death by exposure to the winter cold.

But Todacheene is also dealing with personal and professional crises. Her colleagues look at her with suspicion after it’s been revealed she can see the ghosts of murder victims.

Her job is complicated by the fact that half the department has blackballed her for ratting out a corrupt fellow cop.

Meanwhile, she’s concerned about her aging grandmother, who lives on the Navajo reservation.

Emerson’s first book in the set, “Shutter,” was longlisted for the National Book Award.

Emerson is a Diné writer and filmmaker from Tohatchi, and lives in Albuquerque.

AT COLLECTED WORKS

Author Mark Small will be in conversation with Susan Berk and Santa Fe drummer John Trentacosta about Small’s biography “Lee Berk: Leading the Berklee Way” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, at Collected Works.

The late Lee Berk was the president of Berklee College of Music for 25 years, turning a small, family operated school in Boston into what is considered the world’s largest and most innovative music education institution. Susan Berk is Lee Berk’s widow.

Small is a journalist, guitarist, composer and arranger, and studied at Berklee.

Collected Works is located at 202 Galisteo St. in Santa Fe.

AT GERONIMO’S BOOKS

Poets Catherine Strisik and Elizabeth Jacobson will read from their work at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, at Geronimo’s Books, 3018 Cielo Court, Suite D, in Santa Fe.

IN TAOS

The Taos Storytelling Festival returns with three events on Saturday, Oct. 11.

The festival opens with a storytelling workshop led by Eldrena Douma at 10 a.m. at SOMOS Salon, 108 Civic Plaza Drive in Taos. Admission is $30 for SOMOS members, $40 for nonmembers at somostaos.org.

At 2 p.m. there’s a free Community Story Swap at Hacienda Martinez, 708 Hacienda Road, in Taos.

Then at 6 p.m. the festival presents its Community Storytelling event with storytellers Douma, Sage Vogel and Celinda Reynolds Kaelin.

Participating in the event is guitarist Chuy Martinez. A traditional Northern New Mexico dinner will be served. The evening event is at Talpa Community Center, 4 Archuleta Road, in Ranchos de Taos. Admission $5 at the door.

Ramona Emerson will present new paperback edition of 'Exposure' at two events