Western Star Books

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Now a brick & mortar bookstore across from the courthouse in historic
Lincoln, New Mexico. Specializing in the work of Elizabeth Fackler & the literature
of the Lincoln County War.

Specializing in fiction about the American West

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Elizabeth “Gigi” Garrett, a nationally-acclaimed concert pianist, has retired to teach music to the neighborhood children of a small town. When fifteen-year-old Eleanor Fielding disappears and popular opinion blames Chauncy Stewart, an orphan the town has raised catch-as-catch-can, Gigi uses her sharpened senses to explore the shadowy lives of her list of suspects. After she bails Chauncy out of the county jail, Sheriff Sly Rendt is intrigued enough to begin a pattern of late night visits to pick through her memories of her famous father, frontier sheriff Pat Garrett, for clues as to how to proceed. Despite his frequent admonitions for her to stick to music, Sly relies more and more on her discoveries as a warm friendship grows between them.
Set on the vast plains of southeastern New Mexico in the Depression of the 1930s, My Eyes Have A Cold Nose sculpts an intense interior adventure from within the mind of a blind woman as she courageously follows her seeing-eye dog Teene to help a boy from the wild side who has no one else in his corner.
Elizabeth Fackler’s apt depiction of Miss Garrett’s historically-true character is based on archival documents, interviews with former friends, and profound insights into the world of the unseeing. Ruth Hall’s biography of Elizabeth Garrett, A Place of Her Own, also published by Sunstone Press, is a fitting companion to Fackler’s compelling work.
Elizabeth Fackler’s historical novel Billy the Kid: The Legend of El Chivato, also published by Sunstone Press, was called “a magnificent achievement in historical fiction” by Western Writers of America. Her novel Bone Justice was a finalist in the 2007 New Mexico Book Awards.

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“Sensitive and intuitive, this memorable read shows readers what life in perpetual darkness can be about.”
-True West

“Masterfully written, [this novel] carries itself with a simple elegance. The ease with which the author tells her story makes readers cherish each page.”
-Front Street Reviews

“My Eyes Have a Cold Nose brings Gigi Garrett to life with a level of authenticity often missing in historical fiction. Fackler’s prose is always elegant and often striking.”
-New Mexico Magazine

“Weaving with brilliant prose the harmony and peace that defined Gigi, and with profound insights into the life of the unseeing, the author shares with the reader the details of living in a dark world. The compelling tale moves along quickly, inhibited only by the reader’s desire to soak up each sensation experienced by Gigi.
-Ruidoso News

Finalist in New Mexico Book Awards 2007.

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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 had 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 girl but ordered them to keep their hands off the woman. Bone Justice

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 women 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 horror into romance.

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Praise for Bone Justice

"Bone Justice continues the Seth Strummar western series with a storyline that is in equal parts horrific and romantic. Elizabeth Fackler's crime fiction has always been celebrated for its low-key but hard-boiled drama. Her careful and evocative prose depicts the outlaw Strummar trying to figure out if his partner has turned into a man who deals in women. In the course of the book we get to know the life stories of three different women who, while true to the era in which they're alive, also hold significance for today, especially in the way Fackler demonstrates the violence they have to endure. Fackler tops herself here by setting the youngest woman on an unspoken spiritual quest--and a believable one--that will redeem a broken life. Elizabeth Fackler has a unique approach to the novel and speaks in a voice all her own. She 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

"Bone Justice is a terrific western thriller starring an outlaw with ethics as Seth feels impelled to rescue two women from his former mentor. Seth is a fascinating character struggling to do the right thing for Esther and Oriana, but not finding it easy as he tries to deliver the vulnerable Esther to her Granny while attempting to help her mentally recover from her ordeal; Oriana with her barriers is even more difficult for him. Fans who appreciate a powerful character driven tale of the old west will want to read Elizabeth Fackler's terrific Southwest frontier thriller and seek Seth's other novels (see ROAD FROM BETRAYAL) as this reviewer plans to do."
Harriet Klausner

"Fackler is a very fine writer, creating with clear and crackling prose the ambiance of the southwestern frontier as well as clearly delineated, sympathetic and realistic characters."

El Paso Times

"Author Fackler's writing is crisp and erudite. She describes a scene so the reader feels as if he is an on-location observer. At times the reader feels he should be part of the conversation due to the personal tone of the characters' voices and the smooth flow of words. To develop characters to this level of reality is Fackler's gift."

Ruidoso News

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