Books by Elizabeth Fackler


Books "A fine writer." – The New York Times "Fackler's elegant prose is a pleasure to read." – Booklist "With echoes of James M. Cain, Fackler is gutsy." - Kirkus Reviews AVAILABLE NOW: *Lucinda's Summer Vacation* "A gritty drama with a plot only slightly less complex than its leading man... a compelling, psychological thriller that never stops adding twists and turns... a wholly satisfying read." -Romance Reviews Today Buy it now at Western Star Books.
AVAILABLE NOW: The paperback edition of Endless River, the third novel in my Detective Devon Gray mysteries. "... taut suspense fiction." – Kirkus Reviews Praise for the Devon Gray series: "Incisive dialogue and neat plotting distinguish this bittersweet thriller" – Publishers Weekly on Patricide "Her elegant prose is a pleasure to read, and Gray is an extremely appealing protagonist." – Booklist on Patricide "First-rate suspense combined with Fackler's nuanced portrayal of a charismatic yet deeply flawed hero make this a compelling series." – Booklist on When Kindness Fails "An uncommonly good book that far transcends the genre." – Rio Rancho Observer "An exciting police procedural that includes twists and turns and one shocker of an ending." – AllReaders.com
*Bone Justice, the initial Seth Strummar novel. Never before published. Seth Strummar won big at the poker tables his last night in Laredo, coming away with $200 in gold coin and the deed to a ranch in Colorado. Thinking to leave Texas and the outlaw life behind, he rides to Allister’s cabin to tell him goodbye. But Ben Allister isn’t there. Instead Seth finds two women captives Allister bought off Comancheros: a young girl constantly crying and a mature woman who keeps a stony silence. The other outlaws tell Seth that Allister offered them the girlbut ordered them to keep their hands off the woman. Seth takes both of them as a final message to his former partner that Ben has slipped too low if he’s dealing in women. Heading toward a town where he can leave the captives with someone who will send them home, Seth realizes Allister will follow and try to get the women back merely to let Seth know no one makes his decisions. Following the Pecos River north toward Santa Fe, Seth becomes embroiled in the women’s tragedy and has to stake his life to save them from falling back into Allister’s hands. When a young daredevil named Angel Madera joins them, a triangle emerges between him, Seth, and Esther, the young girl who is no longer crying but in the process of being spiritually healed from all she has endured. The initial, never-before-published novel in the critically-acclaimed Seth Strummar series, Bone Justice is a story with a cruel twist that turns tragedy into redemption. Reviews "In Bone Justice, Fackler takes familiar elements and makes them seem startling and new through the dazzle of her prose and the humanity of her forgiving gaze." – Ed Gorman, Spur Award Winning Author* "The Seth Strummar books are a study of a man who lives by violence, what made him that way, and what might save him from himself." – El Paso Times "A poignant series, beautifully written, with one of the genre’s most unique protagonists." – Roundup Magazine
AVAILABLE NOW: *Billy the Kid: The Legend of El Chivato* (a new edition by Sunstone Press) "A magnificent achievement in historical fiction." – Western Writers of America Reviews

The Lincoln County War *Billy the Kid: The Legend of El Chivato* (new edition) *Texas Lily* The Devon Gray Series published by Five Star *Lucinda's Summer Vacation* *Endless River* *When Kindness Fails* *Patricide* The Seth Strummar Series *Bone Justice* *Breaking Even* *Badlands* *Road From Betrayal* *Backtrail* *Blood Kin* "Backlash" in *Weird Trails* by Triad. "Double-Cross" in *Desperadoes* by Berkley. The Frank James Series *Barbed Wire* *Arson* Check out my story "Corazon" in the anthology Texas Rangers published by Berkley Books. And Also *Seven Rivers*, published under the name of Eli Fackler, Dell books, 1982.