Sandra Dallas

“Three Keys,” “Colorado Hiking” and more books of regional interest

“The Explorers,” by Amanda Blows (William Morrow)

In “First Frost,” author Craig Johnson goes back to the 1960s.

Ansel Adams, who discovered Timothy O’Sullivan’s work in the late 1930s, called the photographs “surrealistic and disturbing.”

It’s a great guide for parents who want to sneak a little something extra into family fun.

The book is filled with evil corporate types, uninvolved police, arrogant dowagers and nasty fraternity boys, all of them after V.I. She gets hit over the head more than once.

Of the first dozen people buried in Mount Prospect, Denver’s first cemetery, two were hanged for murder, five died from gunshot wounds, and one committed suicide.

The book is an extraordinary story of the captives, who faced brutal oppression and discrimination.

Robert Parker died a dozen years ago, but his Spenser mysteries live on under the pen of novelist and sports journalist Mike Lupica.

The book is an academic account, so you won’t find many colorful stories about the newspapers in their heyday — but, then, the demise of a once-powerful, century-old newspaper is dramatic eno…