Set in Death Valley National Park's remote wilds, "Lizard People: Death Valley Underground" is an intriguing mystery novel that lies within the borderlands between American Gothic, ancient cosmic forces, government conspiracies, and off-centered antisocial misfits struggling to survive in a brutal desert wilderness.
Sid Emerson goes missing while investigating ancient legends and a mysterious cosmic energy within Death Valley's wilderness-a force that draws in an odd mixture of eccentrics, societal outcasts, alien conspiracies, and those seeking hidden truths to ancient earth mysteries. Sid's niece hires local desert rat Paddy Darwin to find her uncle. However, she soon discovers that strange things happen when the lost search for the lost, especially within a harsh alien landscape filled with clandestine "patriots" chasing shapeshifting alien Lizard People, a media-seeking crackpot who believes his dead-body-detecting machine can locate additional victims of the Charles Manson murders, and an overworked sheriff who continuously recovers withered and desiccated bodies from Death Valley's desert inferno. The search for gold, Lizard People, and lost souls unleashes an escalating series of intertwined events fueled by greed, suspicion, and conspiratorial beliefs. The journey forces Paddy to face his troubled past in ways that provide a few lizardly twists and turns of their own.
