Equity is the story of three men: Moose, a New Mexico rancher who murders his wife and in-laws; Clay, the undersheriff who attempts to arrest him; and Lyle, the aging sheriff who returns from vacation to find his loyal undersheriff missing and three dead. When Moose presents an airtight alibi, Lyle administers his own brand of justice, intent on forcing a showdown where he can shoot Moose in self-defense. In this literary assemblage, events overlap and intertwine to reveal each man’s agenda, motives, and punishment.
Bev Magennis was born in Toronto, Canada. After a long career as a visual artist, she began writing in her sixties, inspired by a remote region of New Mexico where she lived for seventeen years. Bev was awarded a 2010 PEN Center Emerging Voices Fellowship and received a Norman Mailer Fiction Fellowship in 2011.