Richard Benke

About The Author

Richard Benke spent nearly thirty years as an Associated Press newsman. He resides in Albuquerque.

Books by Richard Benke

City of Stone
By Richard Benke
Richard Benke, author of The Ghost Ocean, returns to southern New Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border for an action-packed mystery involving a lost cache of gold that has trapped guilty and innocent alike in a web of intrigue and murder for nearly a century.The gold, dangled as incentive in a schem...
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The Ghost Ocean

A Novel

By Richard Benke
Set in the border area between southwestern New Mexico and northern Mexico, The Ghost Ocean is a story of modern-day crime and violence. While tracking a wolf killer, Bureau of Land Management ranger Will Mann is startled by gunfire and then he finds the body of a twelve-year-old girl.In the remo...
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