Award-winning author Elizabeth (Beth) Garcia has lived for more than thirty years in the Big Bend country of far west Texas. She has hiked, rafted, explored, and earned a living in this wild desert-mountain land near the Rio Grande, on the border of the United States and Mexico. It was experiencing the deep canyons, creosote-covered bajadas, and stark, jagged mountains; the wide-open spaces and dark, starry nights that eventually brought her to writing.Here is a recent review of "One Bloody Shirt at a Time," the first of the Deputy Ricos Tales Series: "A stunning debut by Big Bend resident Garcia has burst on the local book scene with dead-on aim. One of the best-selling mysteries in the history of our store, One Bloody Shirt at a Time introduces Brewster County Deputy Margarita Ricos, who draws the reader in to her innermost thoughts and feelings as she narrates the story. She's pretty, she's smart, she's young, and she can handle a gun, a horse, and a bad, bad man.The gorgeous desert-mountain settings in and around Terlingua add drama and beauty to the story, and fictional "real people" (the county judge, the sheriff) add fun for locals reading the book. There's suspense, action, angst, intrigue, nasty-mean characters and heroes, too. It's a book that won't let you go until you get to the last page. And then all you want is more!" Jean Hardy-Pittman, owner of Front Street Books, Alpine, Texas. "One Bloody Shirt at a Time" won "Best Crime Novel of the Year" from the Texas Authors Association for 2013."The Reluctant Cowboy" is now out with a revised cover. Not one word of the story has been changed. This novel is unrelated to her first three novels, which are part of the Deputy Ricos Tales series. "The Beautiful Bones" is the second of the Deputy Ricos series, and "Darker Than Black" is the third. The fourth (coming soon) is "Border Ghosts."See: www.facebook.com/ElizabethAGarciaAuthor or www.deputyricos.com for more information or email the author at deputyricos@yahoo.com