Murder at the Outpost

MURDER AT THE OUTPOST: A Mountaintop Novella
Patricia Bezunartea

As the author of Biographies and Southwest fiction, Patricia Bezunartea captures the essence of her characters with humor and honesty-often playful with snarky wit and at other times deadly serious.

Murder at the Outpost puts the reader in the heart of Alpine, where the West is wilder than ever. High in the White Mountains, it's not just the altitude that's got everyone dizzy. The tequila is strong and the dancin' is country. The elk outnumber the people, and everybody's got something to hide--and romance and murder is in the air.

Entertaining, unpredictable, and downright funny, this fast-paced novella invites a budding romance into the mysterious happenings one summer at The Outpost, a lively trailer park in the pine-studded White Mountains of Alpine, Arizona.
When the curvy, blond country gal, Dixie, shows up at the Outpost pulling her pink trailer and looking for a place to park it for a few days, the owner, Luke, hears her story of widowhood and her need to start a new life.

"Well, you must have really loved him 'cause you're still wearing your wedding band."

She leans over and whispers, "Seriously, sugar, it's for pest control."