Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, set in a mining town in the Colorado mountains in 1892. 14 years after leaving his family in Telluride, a boomtown trying to turn respectable, retired gunslinger Zachary Coleman (known as Cole) returns to investigate his father's mysterious death, although he is not welcomed by his fiercely independent sister Gretel, who felt he had abandoned her. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-945575963.