About the author:
\nBruce Borgos is the author of the critically acclaimed Porter Be ck Mystery Series and two other novels. Craig Johnson\, author of the Walt Longmire mysteries\, calls The Bitter Past &ldquo\;a crisp jolt of cask-strength\, 100-proof writing.&rdquo\; Paula L. Woods with the LA Times says\, &ldquo\;The Western thriller book canon expands to Ne vada\, with a touch of The Americans.&rdquo\; A Barry Award nominee\, Bruc e lives in Las Vegas with his wife Pam\, a retired teacher and photographe r.
\nIn The Riddle Maker\, Porter Beck is the sheriff of Lincoln County\, Nevada\, a vast expanse of desert and moun tains best known to the outside world for the top-secret installation call ed Area 51. Just down the highway sits a weathered mailbox where UFO belie vers leave messages for aliens. But this time\, the message is for Beck.\n
It&rsquo\;s a riddle. And when Beck and his team decipher it\, the answer leads them to the shrinking waters of Lake Mead and an oil drum cha ined to the bottom. Inside are the remains of someone missing for more tha n fifty years\, someone tied to Beck by a thread of DNA stretching deep in to his own past.
\nEnter Jett Lowell\, a pint-sized but fearless FBI profiler who believes Beck&rsquo\;s riddle is connected to one she receiv ed seventeen years earlier\, shortly before the disappearance of someone c lose to her.
\nConvinced they are hunting a serial killer\, Beck and
Jett follow a trail of riddles from the deserts of Nevada to the mountain
s of Arizona\, and finally to the red rock wilderness of Utah\, racing to
uncover a chain of murders spanning generations before the killer unleashe
s a final\, horrendous act decades in the making.