Last I Saw Him

Did isolating himself in the border region’s lawless deserts lead him to harness his creativity or descend slowly into madness?

At first, Pulitzer-nominated author Rulo Gatlin loves the idea of using a primitive cabin in the rugged west Texas desert as a writer’s retreat. The alcoholic prodigy draws inspiration from the landscape’s harsh beauty and dark underbelly, so the simple adobe cabin seems like a natural incubator for his talent. With the publishing world abuzz over the prospect of his next book, he settles in with a battered manual typewriter and his demons.

When he’s found dangling from a noose as he looks down in death at the pages of his finished manuscript, the authorities rule his death a suicide because the cabin was locked from inside. But all is not as it seems. His literary agent Abby Huxford’s search to discover the truth behind Rulo’s last days leads to a darker place than she could have imagined as pulling at loose threads unravels a shroud over one of the nearby town’s ugliest secrets: a real-life murder mystery.

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