“While the choice of such a genre may seem like a radical departure for Anaya, in many ways Zia Summer, and the following books in the Sonny Baca series, Rio Grande Fall (1996) and Shaman Winter (1999), are concerned with many of the same issues Anaya tackles in previous works. Detective Sonny Baca, who appears briefly in Alburquerque, solves his first crime in Zia Summer, and his professional development is closely tied to personal revelations about his culture, history, and family. The fictional Sonny’s great-great grandfather is real-life New Mexican hero, Elfego Baca. A Robin Hood figure who was the sheriff of Socorro”