These Barren Hills

In the long anticipated companion to the award-winning Red Cloud Pistachios, the small rural town of Red Cloud, Arizona becomes the focus of murder and greed. Someone is buying up vast acres of land in the valley. But with the country in the midst of a deep recession and a killing drought, it makes no sense. And then a well digger for one of the area farms makes a terrible discovery: They’re not buying land. They’re buying what’s under it.These Barren Hills is the story of the rise and fall of a town; the brutality of corporate greed, and the deadly consequences for those who get in the way.

The Author was born in North Carolina and grew up in small towns in Iowa and California. He is formerly an award winning Associate Creative Director and Copywriter. His debut novel Red Cloud Pistachios was a prizewinner in the Arizona Statewide Writers Contest and 2011 ReadersFavorite.com Gold Award winner for general fiction. A long time resident of Boston, MA, he and his wife moved to Tucson, Arizona in 2000.