"Bill, an unfaithful husband and unwilling farmer, has imperilled his marriage because he has stolen his wife's inheritance to build a saloon. A family of serial killers run the Cottonwood Hotel, and as railway money comes to town, Cottonwood's population of prospective victims is about to be increased."@en
"Phillips shows the metamorphosis of a frontier town that becomes a lightning rod for sin, corruption, and murder. He also brings to life actual crimes that befell Kansas in the 1870s and 1880s, carried out by a strange clan who popularly became known as The Bloody Benders. Cottonwood, Kansas in 1872 is a one-horse speck on the map until a wealthy Chicago developer tries to turn it into a boomtown."@en
"In the late nineteenth-century frontier town of Cottonwood, a family of serial killers known as The Bloody Benders takes advantage of local corruption and vice in order to pursue their deadly causes."
"Een boer en kroegeigenaar met een zwak voor mooie vrouw ontmoet een nieuwkomer en diens beeldschone vrouw in een 19e eeuws stadje in het Wilde Westen."

Cottonwood : a novel