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Art theft in Santa Fe is the theme of the Running Investigations 2 sequel (to Santa Monica Dead Palms - Running Investigations 1) mystery starring sleuths Cleve Cartridge as well as his assistants, sub-two-minute 800m runners and partners Esperanza Cather and Olivia Pillsbury. Any of painter Red Star, Silver Zorro Gallery proprietor Guadalupe La Llorona, garden shop owner and tutor Francisco de Oñate, Jicarilla Apache and computer nerd David Concho, New Mexico Congressman Dart Dunkleman, as well as unusual RdH gang members, may well know more about valuable disappearing art pieces than they admit. Zorrita in all black is another who may be involved with certain deceptive practices. And what, pray tell is El Milagro?

In the early 1980s, three American males find themselves running at various tempos over the Hampstead Heaths north of London. One is a San Francisco lawyer trying to write poetry. Another has quit his job as a video tape editor at Burbank's QBC News. And a third is a mysterious, amazingly talented runner with a scarred face. Also galloping over the muddy trails and through forests and suburbs is a capable yet often distracted female New Zealander hoping to make her mark in European racing. A retired Scotsman on a modest income also mixes it up with the others. Looming ahead is the Greater London Marathon. The mysterious American doesn't plan to run it. Then, no one has ever broken two hours for the marathon distance...A story of Racing, Romance, and Romps over grass and pavement culminates in a variety of 26.2-mile exciting or disappointing performances!

The story focuses on a nine-year-old visionary, Kahlo, and her archeo-astronomical speculations in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon. There is no written history of ancient Chaco residents, yet Kahlo sees things others don't. Her mother, Aurore, is trying to solve her sister Ashleigh's death that may have been a murder. A retired Navajo Uranium Miner and former Santa Fe Railroad employee, a Zuni former Rhodes Scholar and now Park Ranger, a half Navajo/half Welsh former Viet Nam vet who lives in the desert hills south of Chaco, and a a sports writer from New York, all are seeking adventure, treasure, or rewarding experience in the mystic New Mexican outback. There are seven narrators, including Kahlo's grandmother, each of whom casts a different perspective on high-desert adventure and discovery.