“Eco-tour guides see people at their best and their worst,” observes amateur sleuth Madrone Hunter. As chef of Adventure Calls Tours, she sees plenty of both, but few clients can match bad-tempered Violet Brock for pure cussedness. As a traveling companion Violet left much to be desired and Madrone was happy to part company at the tour’s end. But as luck would have it, their unhappy relationship is far from over: when she discovers Violet’s lifeless body while walking along the Verde River, Madrone becomes obsessed with finding her killer.
Appearances & Reviews
Live Events:
MARCH 9 AND 10, 2024
TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS, University of Arizona campus, Tucson AZ Free and great fun for readers of all ages!
Drop by Booth 430 (Tucson Sisters in Crime on Saturday, 9:30-11 and 3:30 – 5:30) and Arizona Mystery Writers Booth 219 (Saturday, 1:00 -3:00)
SIX Panels at Pima County Libraries on Crime Fiction from the Desert
Catalina Branch- Monday Nov. 6 th , 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Mission Branch – Wednesday, Nov. 8th, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Columbus Branch – Monday, Nov. 13, 10:30-12:00 noon
Woods Branch – Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Himmel Branch – Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2-3:30 p.m.
Abbett Branch – Friday, Dec. 1, 10:30-Noon
Sunday April 23, 2023
Thumb Butte Book Festival
Elks Crystal Hall- 117 E Gurley St, Prescott, AZ
11am-4pm
March 4 & 5, 2023 TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS, University of Arizona campus, Tucson, AZ
Drop by Booth 427 (Tucson Sisters in Crime) and Booth 216 (Arizona Mystery Writers) conference is free & FUN!!!
March 16 -19, 2023
LEFT COAST CRIME: TROUBLE IN TUCSON
www.LeftCoastCrime.org/2023
Kathy will moderate a panel on International Settings at noon on 3/16 with:
Sharon Lynn
Ana Manwaring
Dominic Martell
Kenneth Wishnia
Blog Visits:
September 19, 2022 Guest post on Free Range Writers blog
https://www.freerangewriters.com/post/there-s-always-hope-a-guest-post-from-author-kathy-mcintosh
February 10, 2021 Interviewed on C.J. Shane’s Blog
July 12, 2019 Guest post on Jacqueline Seewald’s Blog
http://jacquelineseewald.blogspot.com/search?q=Kathy+McIntosh
Mar 12, 2020 Guest post on Thonie Hevron’s Mystery Readers Only blog
https://www.thoniehevron.com/post/what-tickles-and-irks-you-when-reading-a-mystery
Mar 28, 2020 Guest post on Marilyn’s Musings, Marilyn Meredith’s Blog
https://marilynmeredith.blogspot.com/2020/03/murder-sonoran-style-by-kathy-mcintosh.html
Blog Talk Radio: “No Limits” interview with Barbara M. Hodges
Podcasts
Reviews
Arizona Daily Star, December 3, 2022
Helene Woodhams “Murder, Cottonwood Style: An Adventure Calls, Mystery Book 2” by Kathy McIntosh.
In this second installment of her Arizona-based mystery series, author Kathy McIntosh sets the action in Cottonwood, a town with a down-home vibe — not bustling like Tucson or posh like Sedona, but a place where everyone knows everyone and news travels fast. There’s no shortage of opinions about Violet, giving Madrone plenty to investigate, but things turn dark when she starts receiving anonymous threats. Some of the friendly townsfolk, it appears, have secrets that won’t stand the light of day.
Kathy McIntosh interweaves intrigue, humor, lively dialogue and an authentic Arizona setting in this, her fourth novel. Two of them are set in Idaho, where she lived before relocating to Tucson.
Arizona Daily Star, Nov. 3, 2019
In a land-use standoff of the sort that might sound familiar to Southern Arizonans, the employees of an eco-wilderness tour company have crossed swords with a greedy land developer; when the acrimonious smoke clears, the result is one less developer blading the pristine desert to build fake adobe McMansions. It’s well known that Gabe Ramsay, part-owner of the tour company, is no fan of developer Everett Poulson, but he is horrified to discover Poulson’s brutally stabbed, lifeless body during a staff training exercise in the desert. The fact that Gabe’s own missing knife was used as the murder weapon compounds his alarm.
Clearly, the murderer has set him up to take the fall for the crime — but who could it have been? And why? There are plenty of suspects: it turns out that nearly everyone involved in the training exercise had a reason to despise the obnoxious Poulson, and now it’s up to Gabe, in the interest of self-preservation, to suss out the elusive truth. Author Kathy McIntosh, a recent transplant to Tucson, has made it her business to understand her uniquely Arizona setting and she pays artful attention to authentic low desert details. From the head-fogging heat of the day, to the smell of javelinas, to the painful bite of a bark scorpion, McIntosh reminds her readers that sleuthing in arid lands is no stroll in the park. This is her third “Adventure Calls” mystery. The first two were set in Idaho, where she lived for 30 years.
Helene Woodhams
https://tucson.com/entertainment/books/southern-arizona-authors-tackle-addiction-murder-mystery-history-and-the-immigration-crisis/article_2e469220-af85-53a8-b89a-3e01c3773852.html
Sonoran Arts Network
Review of Foul Wind, May 2016
https://www.sonoranartsnetwork.net/foul-wind-by-kathy-mcintosh-rev-by-mfrissore.html
Review of Mustard’s Last Stand, June 2018
https://www.sonoranartsnetwork.net/mustards-last-stand-by-kathy-mcintosh.html
