Fackler, Author, Elizabeth Fackler, Author M. Evans and Company $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87131-667-7
Hired gun Seth Strummer, on the lam in 1880 and headed to El Paso to kill his brother's murderer, meets Johanna Devery in the desert. Disguised as a boy, Johanna is running away from a sadistic stepfather who has given her an ultimatum: she must...
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Elizabeth Fackler, Author M. Evans and Company $18.95 (227p) ISBN 978-0-87131-734-6
Fackler continues the story of western gunman Seth Strummar in this somewhat weak third installment in her series about his life. In 1881, Seth has left Texas, assumed responsibility for his son, Lobo, and acquired a new partner, Mexican Joaquin...
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Elizabeth Fackler, Author St. Martin's Press $12.95 (165p) ISBN 978-0-312-06640-6
Fackler's new whodunit doesn't measure up to her Arson, which received critical praise. She demonstrates the same exceptional writing skills here, but the story sags under many implausible, too-red herrings. Narrator Frank James, a Texas newspaper...
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Elizabeth Fackler, Author M. Evans and Company $16.95 (222p) ISBN 978-0-87131-716-2
Here Fackler continues the story of western gunman Seth Strummar, introduced in the highly praised Blood Kin . Set in 1881, this adventure tale finds Strummar estranged from his pregnant wife, Johanna, whom he puts in the care of his pious young...
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Elizabeth Fackler, Author Forge $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85559-8
With his cold smile, youthful charm and blazing six-guns, Billy the Kid (1859-1881) was, depending on who you talk to, a popular hero, a vicious killer or both. Fackler's third novel (after Backtrail) tends to glorify the Kid's legacy, portraying...
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Elizabeth Fackler, Author Forge $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85912-1
Weighed down by plot gimmicks and contrived soap-opera theatrics, this tale of Gilded Age New Mexico runs a poor second to Fackler's outstanding 1995 shoot-'em-up, Billy the Kid. Vowing revenge against the villain who ordered the assassination of...
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Elizabeth Fackler, Author Forge $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-86230-5
The third volume in Fackler's well-received Seth Strummar series is an uneven mixture of good guys, bad guys, bad kids, bad women and the gang that couldn't ride or shoot straight. It's 1883, and gunfighter and bank robber Seth has retired to a...
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Elizabeth Fackler, Author Forge $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-85911-4
Fackler (Billy the Kid: The Legend of El Chivato) resuscitates outlaw Seth Strummar in a strong, dark new western. As the novel opens, Seth accompanies his partner, Joaqu n Ascarate, to buy his beloved Heaven Free out of a life of prostitution. In...
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Elizabeth Fackler, Author Five Star (ME) $26.95 (314p) ISBN 978-0-7862-5443-9
El Paso detective Devon Gray's well-meaning efforts to help his fiancee's ex-husband find his missing girlfriend lead to big trouble.
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