Dude or Die
It’s 1954, and San Francisco writer Phoebe Kelley is enjoying the success of her first book, Lady in the Desert. When her sister-in-law asks her to return to Tribulation, Arizona to help run the H Double Bar Dude Ranch, Phoebe doesn’t hesitate.
There’s competition from a new dude ranch this year, so the H Double Bar puts on a rodeo featuring a trick rider with a mysterious past. When accidents begin to happen around the ranch, Phoebe jumps in to figure out why, and confronts an unexpected foe.
Dude or Die is the second book in Lynn Downey’s H Double Bar Dude Ranch series. Her debut novel, Dudes Rush In, won the Will Rogers Medallion Award and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award.
Kate Anger, author of The Shinnery, said this about Downey’s new work: “…this book may compel you to drink whisky and Google dude ranches.”
Lynn Downey is a historian, novelist, archivist, and the past president of Women Writing the West. Her 2019 book Arequipa Sanatorium: Life in California’s Lung Resort for Women, won The WILLA Literary Award for Scholarly Nonfiction in 2020, and her short story, “Goldie Hawn at the Good Karma Café” took second place in The LAURA Short Fiction contest in 2019. She lives in Sonoma, California and sometimes makes wine from the grapes in the small Pinot Noir vineyard in her back yard.
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Congratulation, Lynn. Such a happy feeling when you see your book on paper. Deborah Swenson
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