The Lady

A tightly written, flavorful story of New Mexico in the 1880s and 90s ranks with the best of Richter's novels and describes a place still more Mexican than American in mores, color and viewpoint. Dona Ellen, wife of Judge Sessions, is the dominant and magnetic figure and when she is suspected of killing a cattleman who drives his herd ruthlessly through her beloved garden, the act precipitates a local case culminating in the disappearance of her husband and her son.... >Voir plus