The Edgar Awards Revisited: Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke (Best Novel, 1998)
By Angie Barry
November 8, 2019But my confidence was cosmetic. Neither I nor anyone I knew in Deaf Smith had any influence over Vernon Smothers. He believed intransigence was a virtue, a laconic and mean-spirited demeanor was strength, reason was a tool the rich used to keep the poor satisfied with their lot, and education amounted to reading books full…