Digging up Momma (Samantha Adams Mystery)
by By Shankman, Sarah
Category: Fiction , Mystery & Detective , Women Sleuths

Samantha Adams had come to Santa Fe once before - some twenty years ago with her now-ex-husband, for a night awash in margaritas and marijuana, fighting and making up. Now, Sam's clean and sober, older and wise enough to keep her distance in love. But this time, she's headed west on a mission right out of the Twilight Zone: Sam's received an urgent message from her mother - her dead mother.My dearest Sugar. I must see you. It's urgent. I need your help. The mind-blowing letter was postmarked Santa Fe, penned in her mother's handwriting, and disclosed details only Johanna Adams could know. It could have been an entry from Sam's latest book of bizarre anecdotes, American Weird - or an elaborate hoax. Either way, it instantly rekindled Sam's impossible wish that her mother hadn't really died in a plane crash thirty-four years earlier. With her journalistic instincts - and a daughter's need for closure - at full tilt, Sam packs up her Shih Tzu and touches down among Santa Fe's tourists and crystal gazers, jewelry shops and fastfood stands. But only when she summons the courage to knock on the door of Room 409 at the La Fonda Hotel does her mother-seeking adventure take off with no turning back....