"The state of Texas has given us the Alamo, oil boom and bust, Willie Nelson, the Dallas Cowboys, and that famous criminal puzzler: Who shot JR? And while one would expect a place the size of Texas to have more than its share of crimes and criminals, it sometimes seems the worst offenses that can be committed are making fun of the Dallas Cowboys, disliking Willie Nelson's music, and committing capital murder, in descending order of importance. With the greatest concentration of Texans now in cities, however, the complex urban environment has become a challenging frontier for the writers of Texas detective fiction to explore."--Paragraph one.