Eye on the Rail

The lawman Drew Sodenmire is in exile.
Drew has fought his way through enough tight spots with the toughest of opponents even when he isn't sober. But now he has lost his position after a fatal drunken shooting. He is to lie low and behave himself the Governor insists, and that's how he ends up in one small isolated community.
It's a dull and boring place for the recalcitrant Drew with little option but respite to the bottle.
Then ghastly items start turning up and it's Drew's job to sober up and discover who is guilty and what lies at the heart of these gruesome deeds.
Whilst he searches for the perpetrators even more danger looms as land hungry opportunists bring aggressive speculators of the most violent kind to the tiny township.

Auteur

It's not such a big step from pictures to writing.
And that's how it started out for me. I've illustrated more Western book covers than I care to mention and been doing it for a long time. No hardship, I hasten to add, I love the genre and have since a kid, although originally I made my name painting the cover art for other people, now at least, I manage to create covers for my own books.
A long-term closet writer, only comparatively recently, with a family grown and the availability of self-publishing have I managed to be able to write and get my stories out there.
As I did when illustrating, research counts a lot and has inspired many of my Westerns and Thrillers to have a basis in historical fact or at least weave their tale around the seeds of factual content.
Having such a visual background, mostly it's a matter of describing the pictures I see in my head and translating them to the written page. I guess that's why one of my early four-star reviewers described the book like a 'Western movie, fast paced and full of action.'
I enjoy writing them; I hope folks enjoy reading the results.