High Lonesome Road

Betsy Thornton's first novel, The Cowboy Rides Away, was highly praised for its vivid description of Old Dudley, Arizona, and the people who live there. Now five years later readers are taken back to the harshness of the desert and to Chloe Newcomb, a victim's conselor for the local police department.This time Chloe is called to counsel a woman who found the body of the county's bookmobile driver riddled with bullets. She arrives on the scene and is shocked to learn that the victim was Erica Hill, once a friend of her now-deceased brother. Fueled by an old letter from her brother that asked what happened to Erica, Chloe looks for answers to her death.Thornton, Betsy is the author of 'High Lonesome Road' with ISBN 9780312268619 and ISBN 0312268610.