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About Robin Somers
Robin Somers is the author of Beet Fields, a murder mystery. A founding member of the Coastal Cruisers chapter of Sisters in Crime, she’s an Emerita Lecturer in writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Robin lived in the rural foothill town of Sonora, California, in the nape of the Sierra Nevada, where she kept her horse and worked as a crime reporter for the local newspaper, an editor for the United States Forest Service, and an English teacher. In 2002, she returned to her home near the beach in Santa Cruz, California, where she lives with her husband and their Havanese, Buster. She is a passionate advocate for wild horses.
BOOKS
MYSTERY | $21
Trade Paper | 5.315” x 8.465”
ISBN: 9798897400102
Pub Date: 3/3/2026
Three Marys: A Wild Horses Mystery
by Robin Somers
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A serial killer is loose in gold country
Crime reporter Eleanor Wooley is covering the annual Mother's Day Rodeo when wildfire breaks out and a dead woman is pulled from the Little Bear River. The rural Gold Strike community turns inward in fear. Eleanor, her instincts heightened, worries that this year's Rodeo Queen may be the next victim. During a high-Sierra excursion to Me-Wuk sacred grounds, in a last-chance effort to save the free-flowing Bear River from being dammed, wildfire breaks out, again, stoking fears of another murder. Eleanor is spurred to action, assisted by her former foe, Anishinaabe wilderness guide Leonard Parker. In the aftermath of crises and chaos, a wild stallion Eleanor and rancher Easton Jode rescued from slaughter restores joy to their lives after living under the shadow of death.
Peopled with a cast of earthy, soulful characters, Three Marys ventures into parts of Western culture as remote to the modern world as a rutted country road.
Praise for Three Marys: A Wild Horses Mystery
“Robin Somers makes the Sierra foothills as compelling and full of oh-so-human nature as CJ Box's Wyoming, Tana French's western Ireland, or Attica Locke's East Texas. It's that good. I felt like I'd moved fully into reporter-heroine Eleanor's existence, took up her traumas, swung into her horse's saddle, adopted her firmness under pressure; she's a thoroughly real person caught up in a world of wildfires, violent men, sheer canyons, subdivisions, ancient Native secrets ... what a nuanced way to execute a thriller.”
—Bruce Kelley, editor-in-chief, San Francisco Magazine & Reader's Digest
“In this second of Robin Somers’s Wild Horses Mysteries, journalist Eleanor Wooley rides again into danger and High Sierra beauty as she covers the story of a woman found murdered at the edge of an unseasonable forest fire. As with Eleven Stolen Horses - the first in the series - Three Marys weaves together the romance between two damaged people, the commitment women have to one another, and a love of horses into a landscape so masterfully evoked that the smell of sage and the sound of snowmelt tumbling over rocks remain in the senses long after the story is done. If you crave a mystery with a strong female lead, a can’t-put-it-down plot, and an important message for today’s world, Three Marys is for you.”
—Kate Woodworth, author of Little Great Island and Racing Into the Dark.
MYSTERY | $19
Trade Paper | 5.315” x 8.465”
ISBN: 9781960573865
Pub Date: 9/17/2024
Eleven Stolen Horses: A Wild Horses Mystery
by Robin Somers
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How much does Eleanor Wooley really know about her new best friend?
Eleanor Wooley is determined to start her life over in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. But when her new best friend suddenly disappears, Eleanor abandons her job as a crime reporter for The Gold Strike Tribune and sets off in desperate pursuit.
Spurred by gut instinct, Eleanor soon leaves California and scours Northeastern Nevada during one of the hottest, driest summers on record. Obscure signs appear—an intruder’s dire warning, a casino’s mysterious graffiti, a random sighting of a killer on the run.
In her search to find Rette, Eleanor discovers the dark world of today’s inhumane treatment of wild horses, and when the secrets of her trusted best friend’s past begin to surface, Eleanor finds herself in grave danger. With the backdrop of the American West’s high desert wilderness and its towering, rugged mountains and vast open range, Eleanor is forced to decide if continuing her search for Rette is worth losing her own life.
Praise for Eleven Stolen Horses: A Wild Horses Mystery
“Earthy, sexy, suspenseful and wild.”
—Joanna Hershon, author of The Outside of August; St. Ivo
“Robin Somers knows the gritty corners of the Sierra Nevada, what it means to cover a crime beat, and most of all how to tell a moody, multi-layered story in mesmerizing style. Eleven Stolen Horses is a knockout.”
—Elizabeth McKenzie, author of Dog of the North