J J RUSZ is the author of The Window Trail (2018), The South Rim Trail (2019), The Lost Mine Trail (2020), and The Mule Ears (2023), the first four books in the Big Bend Country Mystery series, focusing on crime, romance, and a little humor in Far West Texas. The region includes Big Bend National Park and its surrounding communities, including Alpine, Marathon, Fort Davis, Terlingua, Lajitas, and Marfa. Website for the series is at jjrbigbend.com . J J Rusz is the pen name for John J Ruszkiewicz, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, earned a BA from St. Vincent College in 1972 and a PhD in English from The Ohio State University in 1977. He is the author of a wide range of college textbooks, including Everything's an Argument and How to Write Anything. Rusz is retired from the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught literature, rhetoric, and composition for 40 years. He currently spends most of his time in Alpine, Texas.