Just Deserts: A Hetta Coffey Mystery, Book Four

I received a copy of this excellent tale from TheFussyLibrarian. The fourth of the Hetta Coffey Mystery Series, this is Jinx Schwartz in her prime. Taking place in San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico, and points further north, Hetta's boat mechanic tells her she has 'bleesters on her bottom'. She has to have the boat hauled, sanded, repaired, re-painted, and re-shellacked to kill the entity causing the blisters and damage to her hull. This is a process requiring a LOT of time and effort, and the only way to preserve the hull of the 'Raymond Johnson', not just a boat but her home, office, and world-traveling security. Hetta is an engineer and works all over, taking jobs in the U.S., Mexico, and South America that are accessible to yacht basins on the Pacific coast. She is overly fond of the Sea of Cortez, that sea behind the Baja peninsula located just over the border between California and Mexico, and separating the Mexican mainland from said Baja peninsula. Hetta has been working in that area for quite some time. There is a job coming up in San Francisco and she wants to touch base soon with her fella, but she takes a quick job at a Mexican Copper mine, and rents a VW Fox and a fairly large house near the Turquoise Valley Golf Course in Naco, Arizona thirty miles north of the mine, with the thought that it will keep her busy till her boat is ready. And her first guest on the edge of the golf course is a blue-eyed coyote who does tricks for treats. Her second visitor is obviously connected to the cartel and/or the motorcycle gang she testified against. But she can handle it. Can't she?