Murder in Mesquite Springs

About the Book

<i>Murder in Mesquite Springs</i> is the story of a young man named Thomas Earl Grumbacher, or "Bubba" to his family and friends. Set in Skagg's Bar-B-Q in a fictional town in South Texas, the story is narrated by the long-suffering Monique, a waitress at Skagg's. It is through Monique's eyes that the reader sees the effects of Bubba's descent into the shadowy world of a political campaign run by a racist organization called "The Circle." The people in Bubba's life fail to prevent him from getting involved with The Circle because, as Monique puts it, "When he first joined up with this new group of friends of his, at first the changes in Bubba weren't all bad. For the first time in his life, Bubba seemed to actually be taking pride in himself." But as the story progresses, Bubba and the people around him are drawn further and further down into a world of deception, crime, and ultimately, murder.

About the Author

Glenda Stewart Langley has degrees in English from Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota, and Texas A&M – Kingsville. She has also, at various times in her life, worked as a waitress. Currently she is a teacher, writer and gardener who shares a “work-in-progress” adobe home along the Rio Grande in New Mexico with two cats, three dogs, two ducks, and one very understanding husband. Her poetry has been published most recently in Southwestern Women: New Voices (Javelina Press) and The Practice of Peace (Sherman Asher Publishing). This is her first venture into fiction.