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Vietnam took his legs. A murderer took his father. Somehow, Jason Crow has to take a stand.
Jason Crow comes home to Texas on clumsy, prosthetic legs, struggling with his lost dreams and the pitying curiosity of friends and strangers. But there's no time for him to brood, because his father has just been shot to death.
Unable to convince the police that his father was murdered, Jason begins his own investigation. In the process he uncovers family...
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Red River mysteries volume 1
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"A suspenseful crime story with just a hint of something otherworldly." -Booklist
Faye Longchamp doesn't believe in ghosts, but she's an archaeologist-dead people are her life. While working in Rosebower, a rural New York town founded by Spiritualists, Faye is surrounded by people who talk to the dead on a regular basis. So when influential Spiritualist Tilda Armistead invites Faye and her daughter to commune with the dead, she can't say no. An hour...
3) Burrows
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"The cinematic characters have substance and style. They walk off the page and talk Texas." -The Dallas Morning News
Constable Ned Parker's retirement is cut short when Center Springs, Texas, becomes the latest stop for a murderer who has already hit Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma on his deadly spree. A dead man hooked to fishing lines in the river draws Ned into the investigation to back up his nephew Cody, the new Constable and Vietnam vet. Cody...
4) Crow's Feat
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Jason remembers Colonel Bartholomew as a loudmouthed bigot and a drunk. Now the Colonel's been found dead with a knife in his back, and the Texas police think someone in Jason's family killed him. Jason Crow, double amputee and Vietnam War vet, has good reason to dislike the retired officer who bad-mouthed Jason's father and his African American business partner. But when Bartholomew calls late one night with a mysterious request that Jason come by...
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Someone's murdered Brayton Spites!
Nobody's sorry he's dead--with one exception. A ruthless, unscrupulous businessman, notorious womanizer, and heartless father, he turned his back on his only legitimate son after the boy's grandfather abused him. So when Spites's body is found in a dark alley in Coyote Springs, the question is not who killed him, but what took so long?
Jason Crow, rancher, vintner, and double amputee, is invited to help find his...
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No one really notices that a fix may be in until Matt O'Connor, a Chicago-based columnist for a national racing newspaper, gets a call from Moe Kellman, a horse-owning acquaintance. Kellman's question for Matt: Was the death of ninety-two-year-old Bernard Glockner, Chicago's oldest active bookmaker, suicide or murder? Glockner was Kellman's late uncle and Kellman-a man not unfamiliar with the Chicago mob, wants Matt to check it out.
Matt quickly...
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"Fast pacing, a strong sense of place, and plenty of publishing-business details combine with a likable although flawed main character to produce an engrossing read."-Booklist
The phone rings in the middle of the night. Publisher Guy Mallon's book warehouse has burned to the ground. In the ashes there is a burned body. Carol Murphy, Guy's lover and business manager, fed up with the failing operation, has already split. But why is her car spotted...
8) Dark Places
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Top 10 Modern Westerns for 2016 by True West Magazine
Top Books for 2015 by Strand Magazine
"Reavis Z. Wortham is the real thing: a literary voice that's gut-bucket Americana delivered with a warm and knowing Texas twang." -CJ Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author
At the tail end of 1967, the Parker family once again finds it impossible to hide from a world spinning out of control. Fourteen-year-old Top still can't fit in with their Center...
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Milton T. Burton has charmed readers for years with his Texas mysteries, notable for their backwoods flair, down-home characters, and Southern-flavored sense of humor. In These Mortal Remains, Sheriff Bo Handel returns in a mystery which will have Burton's many fans hooting and hollering. Bo Handel knows Texas's Caddo County inside and out, from the town drunks to the teen troublemakers with too much time on their hands. But when Toby, an African-American...
12) Unraveled
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"Not only does Wortham write exceptionally well, but he somehow manages to infuse Unraveled with a Southern gothic feel that would make even William Faulkner proud... A hidden gem of a book that reads like Craig Johnson's Longmire mysteries on steroids." —The Providence Journal
Blending the racial topicality of the Sixties crime classic In the Heat of the Night with the coming-of-age poignancy of To Kill a Mockingbird,
...14) Gold Dust
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Red River mysteries volume 7
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A fascinating historical mystery by Sulari Gentill, author of #1 LibraryReads pick The Woman in the Library
Winner of the 2018 Ned Kelly Award for Best Mystery
For fans of Rhys Bowen, Kerry Greenwood and Jacqueline Winspear comes an adventure-packed romp that threads 1934 Sydney's upper class and its seedy underworld.
Wealthy Rowland Sinclair, an artist with leftist friends and a free-wheeling lifestyle, reluctantly agrees to a charity race. He'll...
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Things are heating up in Texas! Christie Taylor returns home to care for her injured and elderly father. Sadly, Pop's friend, Curtis, is also experiencing some health issues and it isn't long before she's dealing with the care of two stubborn men. But when Curtis fears that he's killed someone and can't remember it, Christie must take charge to uncover who is trying to frame Curtis. With the help of new allies, Christie sets out to solve this mystery...
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Gunning for True Grit in TexasAfter recent events, Christie Taylor is learning to shoot. Her Pop's been adamant that she's able to protect herself when he's not around. Having grown up around guns, Christie respected them but had no desire to participate. Yet someone is closing in and Christie is worried about her family and friends. A cryptic message is the only clue to unraveling a mystery before a deadly killer strikes again. As Christie is a...
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Travel to the Texas Hill Country!Returning home to Comfort, Texas, Christie Taylor discovers that developers are intent on forcing her Pop to sell his property. Only home for a little while, her return to her life as a nurse comes to a halt when her father is almost killed in a hit-and-run accident. But trouble lands on their doorstep when the person who'd been driving the truck dies on their property, Christie has no choice but to stay and care for...
18) Laying Bones
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Red River mysteries volume 8
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For millennia, Egypt has depended upon the waters of the Nile. Its annual floods fertilize the land. By the time Britain extends its dominion over Egypt, the Cairo Barrage is the key to control, its name taken from the French term meaning a dam or irrigation channel designed to increase a river's depth or to divert its flow.
An attempt to blow up the Manufiyah regulator in the Barrage is not a petty matter. Gareth Owen, The Mamur Zapt, Chief of Cairo's...
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For one brief hour on a sunny Texas morning, amateur baker Rosie Hart glimpses the life she's always dreamed about - thanks to a surprise inheritance from the late Miss Alice. But her benefactor is barely cold in the ground when Rosie is accused of her murder. As the only stranger in the tight-knit Airlie Falls community, and the only person with an obvious motive, all eyes turn to Rosie. Especially when more bodies begin to pile up and mysterious...
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When talented baker Rosie Hart delivers cakes and cookies to her newest clients, The Sweet Treat candy store, she finds herself embroiled in yet another murder case. Will she ever catch a break? Her elderly clients, The Percival sisters, are shocked when their long-lost great nephew appears with no warning. The sisters have never met nor heard of the man, but he's family so they accept him with open arms. He immediately begins to tear up his aunts'...
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