Elizabeth A. (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, along with the wide-open spaces and dark, starry nights that eventually brought her to writing. Now she can't quit! The Beautiful Bones is her second published novel, and the second of many Deputy Ricos tales. Each one stands alone so they can b...