John Asher pulls us into this story of Monroe right from the beginning with his skillful descriptions of where we are, the colors, the smells, the feelings in the air. Monroe Colson is an artist, living in small-town Texas. Despite his generous spirit, he is unhappily estranged from his family, a...
Long, black, sleek, moving slow, one behind the other. They came to a stop near Whitehead’s Mercedes and another half dozen upscale vehicles a short distance from the memorial plot. When the dust settled, uniformed drivers got out, one from each car, and opened the rear doors. Five women emerged,...
She entered a fortlike complex constructed of concrete blocks built into the foot of a mountain on the outskirts of Taxco. Except for a heavily fortified room where the silver was kept, the floor was clean-swept earth, the furnishings spare. The Toribios, a family of Mixtec Indians, unlocked a h...