Arizona author Leon Unruh, a Pawnee County native, will visit the Macksville City Library at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 15, for an informal presentation about the themes and craft of “Saltwood,” his latest thriller.

Unruh graduated from Macksville High School in 1975 and now resides in Tuscon, Arizona. His two-book series, beginning with “Dog of the Afterworld” and continuing with “Saltwood” is set in Kansas, and he says that “A good bit of the story involves Rattlesnake Creek.”

In “Saltwood,” the FBI pushes an assassin into a conspiracy where politics and oil mix like money and religion, according to the book jacket.

His bio at Arizona Mystery Writers notes:

Leon Unruh grew up in west-central Kansas, where he earned spending money by taking photos for newspapers, bucking bales and digging graves. He edited and wrote for a handful of newspapers in Kansas, including the Larned Tiller and Toiler, the Topeka Capital-Journal and the Wichita Eagle, as well as for the Austin American-Statesman, the Dallas Morning News and the Anchorage Daily News. He later was the editor of the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Unruh is a co-author of “Final Destinations: A Travel Guide for Remarkable Cemeteries in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.” His short stories have been published in 105 Meadowlark Reader, in Ice Box and on plainchina.org. Unruh now lives in Tucson.