Behind the Story: A Good and Honorable Thief

“A Good and Honorable Thief” is the third of three short stories in my short story collection A Little Bit of Love.

I really enjoyed the historical research I did for my novel With Perfect Clarity, and when I decided to put out a small short story collection I thought why not set one in the old West? I don’t remember how I came up with the idea of a stagecoach robbery, but once the idea was in my head it was clearly exactly the story I needed.

I quickly learned that I would not have been a fan...