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1) Echo burning
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Jack Reacher, the vagabond freelance lawman who never hesitates to stick his nose into private business, takes his lively act to Texas, embroiling himself in what starts as a messy domestic dispute before turning far more ominous. The rugged former army cop comes to the aid of Carmen Greer, who picks him up on the side of the road one morning outside Lubbock, then asks him to kill her abusive husband. Sloop Greer is getting out of prison in a few...
Author
Series
Kinky Friedman mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Author
Series
Hap Collins and Leonard Pine novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Florida Grange, Leonard's drop-dead gorgeous lawyer and Hap's former lover, has vanished in Klan-infested Grovetown while in pursuit of the real story behind the jailhouse death of a legendary bluesman's blackguard son. Has she been murdered too? Fearing the worst, Hap and Leonard set out to do the kind of investigating the good ole boy cops can't - or won't - do themselves."--BOOK JACKET.
Author
Series
Kinky Friedman mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Investigating the disappearance of an eleven-year-old autistic boy, Kinky Friedman is also challenged to discover the whereabouts of a missing cat and enlists the help of Steve Rambam, an octogenarian with poor eyesight.
Author
Series
Kinky Friedman volume 15
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
It's a case of missing kid and missing kitty when Kinky Friedman, private dick extraordinaire and animal lover nonpareil, attemps to find a young, autistic New York boy and a three-legged Texas cat named Lucky, both of who have disappeared.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
When a baby was abandoned 19 years ago on Verna Mae Olsen's doorstep, she was forced to turn him over to the state. Now a superstar college basketball player, Will Knight asks Abby to help find his birth parents. They start with Verna Mae Olsen, who is a wealth of information--even though she really should know nothing of the child after giving him up. When Verna Mae turns up dead, things get tricky. Looks like Abby's got a murder mystery on her hands,...
Author
Series
Hotter in Texas volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Nikki Hunt thought her night couldn't get worse when her no-good, cheating ex ditched her at dinner, sticking her with the bill. Then she found his body stuffed in the trunk of her car and lost her two-hundred-dollar meal all over his three-thousand-dollar suit. Now not only is Nikki nearly broke, she's a murder suspect. Former cop turned PI, Dallas O'Connor knows what it's like to be unjustly accused. But one look at the sexy-though skittish-suspect...
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
"That Truman Smith was sitting in a frayed lawn chair reading an old paperback copy of Tobacco Road was not remarkable. And strange as it sounds, it wasn't particularly noteworthy that someone wanted Smith to look into the murder of a prairie chicken; after all, he'd investigated and solved the murder of an alligator, hadn't he?"--BOOK JACKET. "The Attwater's Prairie Chicken isn't really a chicken, it's a grouse. And there are only about 108 of them...
11) The maverick
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Language
English
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Description
Constantly in the middle of trouble be it during roundup or at Jacobsville county dances Harley Fowler always seems to emerge unscathed. Then he meets Alice Jones, a top-notch investigator who is trying to solve a murder involving the one family Harley doesn't want to talk about his own. Suddenly, he's in the midst of mayhem and all he can thing about is protecting Alice. But Alice is one stubborn woman and doesn't seem to appreciate his efforts...