Robin Balogh Cox spent her first 50 years working as a wife and mother of three, much of it under the big skies of Texas.<br><br>She has been fortunate enough to live and travel in the most beautiful places in the west and desert southwest. Places like Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming and Colorado, as well as Texas, are a big influence in her writing. Her general love for the history, art and culture of the old west shines through in her mystery novels.