“Carol Potenza’s award winning debut novel is a fascinating page turner that will leave readers anxious for the next in the installment. Pueblo Police Sergeant, Nicky Mathews, blends science, mysticism and cunning police work as she investigates a tribal murder that leaves her life in jeopardy. Thoroughly researched and masterfully plotted, Hearts of the Missing uses the atmospheric beauty of New Mexico to fully make this mystery come alive.”
Jeffe Kennedy
“The Hearts of the Missing is engrossing, bewitching, and compelling. Filled with the natural enchantment of its New Mexico setting, this story of an intrepid detective in Native American culture and her FBI partner kept me rapt and delighted.”
Darynda Jones
“Hearts of the Missing is a stunning debut. It’s compelling, intelligent, and brilliantly designed. Brava, Miss Potenza! I couldn’t put it down.”
Craig Johnson
“In the Hillerman tradition, Carol Potenza’s Hearts of the Missing winds and weaves together like a Tsiba’ashi D’yini basket holding one fine mystery.”
David Morrell
Tony Hillerman Prize Winner 2017 ‘Hearts of the Missing’ by Carol Potenza
“New Mexico is a spectacular setting for mysteries, and Carol Potenza puts its majestic landscape to unexpected and thrilling use.”
Nina Hampton
“Getting hooked on Carol Potenzas character Nicki Mathews. I just finished Third Warrior after reading Hearts of the Missing, also Nicki Mathews mystery set in New Mexico.
The character Nicky Mathews has evolved in the past two books. She’s somewhat of a mystery herself.
As a strong but vulnerable person she keeps up a a independent professional life when possible.
Yet she has a inner life that connects to the Native American Spirit world also.
Personally it’s that spiritual connection with Native American culture keeps me turning the pages .
I’m usually not a big mystery reader but I wonder what the next book will evolve into.”