Margaret Tessler: 6 books

After twenty years of being an outcast, Jossenda Ledesma suddenly shows up at a family gathering. She latches onto Becca Sandoval, a relative newcomer to the clan, who is in the dark about the hostility surrounding the woman. Becca soon learns that Jossenda is not only belligerent and ill-mannered,...

When Sharon Salazar agrees to house-sit for a friend on beautiful Mustang Island, she envisions relaxing on the beach with her husband, Ryan, or curled up with a good book with the resident cat on her lap. Instead, she finds herself embroiled in a troubling chain of events that involves the family...

While skiing with their friends near Cloudcroft, New Mexico, Sharon and Ryan Salazar stumble upon the body of a missing teenager. The girl's friends might hold the key to her disappearance, but they've made a pledge to keep silent. Meanwhile, in a mission of her own making, the obnoxious Alvina...

FINALIST: 2012 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards While vacationing in idyllic Chama, New Mexico, Sharon Salazar and her family encounter a mysterious stranger, Rita Méndez, who bears a striking resemblance to Bernice Peralta — someone whose jealousy brought grief to the Salazars years earlier. Rita...

Sharon and Ryan Salazar get caught up in another puzzling mystery when Sharon joins the committee to help plan her twentieth high-school reunion. The fun of planning begins to unravel, however, when committee members begin getting malicious telephone calls. Sharon suspects these anonymous calls...

Trouble upends Sharon and Ryan Salazar's peaceful weekend on Mustang Island, a barrier island off the Texas gulf coast. The chain of events begins when their nineteen-year-old nephew, Miguel Meléndez, becomes involved with Bianca LaCroix, a predatory woman twice his age. When she's found stabbed...