Previously published as: Tucker's reckoning. New York : New American Library, 2012

Since losing his wife and daughter, Samuel Tucker has wandered, drunk and bereft of a reason to go on. In Oregon's Rogue River region, Tucker watches as two men gun down a third. After they leave, he takes the dead man's pistol and makes it to the next town. There he learns that Payton Farraday, a well-liked local rancher, was the second Farraday shot to death within the past two years-- and becomes a suspect in the shooting. Emma Farraday, the victim's niece, believes in Samuel's innocence--and the two set out to prove it.

Spur Award winner 2013