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The Blue Eyed Indian
Look down
some dark midnight street, into the black recesses of a smoky dive where the
scarred barroom floor is carpeted by broken teeth and dreams, and you will
find the Blue-Eyed Indian. He is the private detective who turns over the
rock of city life, doing the kind of work not likely to boost the sale of
fedora hats. Listen to the husky saxophone's wail, lifting and dropping in
sad echoes off hard buildings. The click of heels on the harsh noir sidewalk your hear through the black night is Travis, the Blue-Eyed
Indian.
"A
Mickey Spillane for the nineties -- hard-edged and thoroughly
enjoyable." Susan Rogers Cooper, creator of E.J. Pugh mystery series
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 Black Like Blood
She's back!
In the sequel to No Murder Before Its Time, our reluctant amateur detective
returns to action.
Esbeth
Walters, a retired high school math teacher, tells herself she’s never too
old to learn something new the hard way when she takes a job as part-time
dispatcher at the Sheriff’s Department – this just after the mayor of a small
town in the county has been murdered.
New to the
area, she soon learns that somewhere under the crust of her newly adopted
rural Texas
county there is a history of feuds, corruption, betrayal, and violence.
Wild talk
of a lost diamond mine helps to peel back the scab and she begins to wonder
if even Texas Ranger Tillis Macrory isn’t as tainted as the rest of them. He
is overly friendly to attractive deputy Gala and has sat at the card table of
gambler Morgan Lane.
Esbeth tells him, "I think there’s something about this one you needed,
something that rattles you to your deeps."
Tillis
isn’t helped when the murdered mayor’s son Donnie and his girlfriend, Karyn, find another body – Denny’s brother Hugh, whose
been missing for forty years. Donnie and Karyn,
daughter of Tillis’ game warden friend, Logan Rainey, can’t seem to leave the
mess alone, and their relentless digging unearths a side to the story no one,
not even Esbeth, could have expected.
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Research (512-416-8995)
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Texas Highway
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(512-472-5050)
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(512-891-8974)
The Bookshop, Marble Falls, TX
(830-693-7276)
Or you can
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ME 04901 Individuals & Libraries call: 1-800-223-1244, extension 15
Retailers
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or order
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 Bent Red Moon
Texas Hill
Country in the 1870s was as close to the devil’s stew pot as you can get. The
Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne
had banded together in a desperate last-ditch fight against the now apparent
attempt to annihilate the buffalo herds. Rebels returning from the Civil War
to counties that had voted not to secede began cattle rustling that led to
massive feuds. The Ninth and Tenth Cavalry – known as "buffalo
soldiers" by the Indians they fought – were mustering out only to find a
hostile freedom at best. Rumors of a Lost San Saba mine were luring
adventurers of the worst sort into the heart of this unforgiving mess.
It is into
all this that seventeen-year-old Mick rides without a gun, looking for his
last living relative, Bill Hinton, where he meets Syd,
a Mexican girl, who is just as determined to find Bill Hinton. . . and kill
him. Faced by a land as harsh as cactus and mesquite stickers, and as
poisonous as a rattler’s bite, they join forces and search together.
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"Bent
Red Moon is a book that has it all: compelling characters, a
non-stop-action can't-put-the-book-down plot, and enough adventure, suspense,
and excitement to fill several novels. Author Russ Hall has nailed down
one of the best westerns to come down the pike in many years."
- W.C. Jameson, author of Billy the Kid: Beyond the Grave and Buried
Treasures of Texas
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This
western novel is now available hardbound and in paperback!
ISBN:
0843957271 Hardbound: $25.95
Austin-area
stores stocking this book include:
Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 10,000
Research (512-416-8995)
Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 701 Capital of
Texas Highway
(512-328-3155)
Book People Bookstore, 603 N. Lamar
(512-472-5050)
Border's Bookstore North, 10,225 Research Blvd. (512-795-9553)
Border's Bookstore South, 4227 S. Lamar
(512-891-8974)
The Bookshop, Marble Falls, TX
(830-693-7276)
Or you can
order copies from:
Five Star, an imprint of the Gale Group 295 Kennedy Memorial
Drive. Waterville,
ME 04901 Individuals & Libraries call: 1-800-223-1244, extension 15
Retailers
& Bulk Buyer purchases: 1-800-877-4253, extension 1255
order online
now at Amazon.com or Barnes&Noble.com
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 NO MURDER BEFORE
ITS TIME
Esbeth
Walters is 72 and shouldn't be messing around with murder, but when Texas
Hill Country winemaster Win Castle pits his sons
against each other over the inheritance of a 21,000 acre spread including
the winery where Esbeth works part time, the result is murder, and Esbeth
is in the middle of it with Texas Ranger Tillis Macrory and Sheriff Watkins
thinking she knows more than she's telling
"This
is my kind of mystery. Tricky, wry, and packed with surprises and
people you'd like to meet. A fine job." - Ed Gorman,
author of Everybody's Somebody's Fool
"Russ
Hall produces an excellent vintage. Great scenery, a fascinating look
at the Texas
wine industry, and a 72-year-old sleuth who's got more kick than most
characters half her age. No Murder Before Its Time will agree
with the most discriminating palate." - Rick Riordan,
winner of the Edgar, Anthony, and Shamus awards, and author of Cold
Springs.
"An interesting, fast-paced tale that keeps you turning the
pages. Hall brings his own unique twist to a cast of colorful Texas
characters." - Ben Rehder,
author of Buck Fever and Bone Dry
"You don't have to own a sophisticated palate to know that money,
greed, and ambition too often ferment into serious trouble.
Experience Shakespearean-class family dysfunction with a Texas Hill Country
vineyard twist in Russ Hall's newest mystery." - David
Marion Wilkinson, author of Oblivion's Altar.
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ISBN:
1-58414-028-6 Hardbound $25.95
Austin-area
stores stocking No Murder Before Its Time include:
Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 10,000
Research (512-416-8995)
Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 701 Capital
of Texas Highway
(512-328-3155
Book People Bookstore, 603 N. Lamar
(512-472-5050)
Border's Bookstore, 10,225 Research Blvd. (512-795-9553)
The Bookshop, Marble Falls, TX
(830-693-7276)
Or you can order copies from:
Five Star, an imprint of the Gale Group
295
Kennedy Memorial Drive. Waterville, ME
04901
Individuals & Libraries call:
1-800-223-1244, extension 15
Retailers & Bulk Buyer purchases:
1-800-877-4253, extension 1255
or, now
in a direct mass market paperback at only $4.79 at eHarlequin.com
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 WILDCAT DID GROWL
An
Adventure in the Bahamas
"What's someone like you doing living out here all alone?"
Lea watched the green fronds toss back and forth in the
gusting wind. A large yellow bloom of a flower flew by fast.
The sky was getting so dark she could barely see a few feet down the
hill. It would rain soon, hard.
"When my brother Frank died, he left me the
place. We had fallen apart. I promised myself if I came out
here I would spend time trying to find out what he was like. I mean,
what he had become."
There was a low rumble of thunder outside. The
thin one tugged back the tail of his t-shirt so she could see the butt of
the gun tucked in his belt. She felt a vein in her throat
throbbing. Thump. Thump. Thump.
Frank, she thought, what the hell have you gotten me
into here?
"From the first page Russ Hall makes you smell the saltwater and hear
the palm-fronds scratching. His characters are vivid and real.
He writes with clarity and lightness. . .the eerie
kind -- like being in the eye of a hurricane. . .A first rate adventure
novel."
Michael Largo, author of Lies Within
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This fast-paced action thriller is now
available!
ISBN: 0966617339 Paperbound $14.95
Austin-area
stores stocking Wildcat Did Growl include:
Adventures
in Crime & Space Books (512-473-2665)
Barnes & Noble, 1000 Research (512-416-8995)
Book People Bookstore, 603 N. Lamar (512-472-5050)
Border's Bookstore, 10225 Research Blvd. (512-795-9553)
Fall Creek Vineyard Tasting Room (915-379-5361)
The Bookshop, Marble Falls, TX (830-693-7276)
Or you
can order copies from:
Tropical Press
P.O.
Box 161174, Miami, FL 33116-1174 (Tropicbook@aol.com)
or order online now at Amazon.com
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Doing a spot of
shark and barracuda fishing in the lush green tropical charm of the Abaco Islands
of the Bahamas
was meant to be a pleasant diversion for two savvy men of the corporate
business world. But things have never gone so wrong.
Cast
ashore by a sea as tempestuous as their professional and personal lives,
they cast their lot with Panamanian canal pilot Rolf, Doc Jocelyn, Monique,
and Haitian John as bad becomes worse when an American ATF patrol stirs up
two rival Jamaican weapons trafficking bands.
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 In the dark summer nights someone
squints into the cross hairs and squeezes the trigger, packs plastic
explosives and charges the detonator, finds new and creative ways to kill
politicians from one end of America
to the other. The media is having a carnival!
The
President of the United
States knows more than he can say.
Michael Colby, who thought he had retired from high tension cases, knows
what has to be done. The public, and the screaming senators and
representatives getting picked off like ducks at a shooting gallery, don't
know who is doing all the killing. But three college students do. The
only thing everyone knows for sure is that it is. . .
A World Gone Wrong
As the
creative killings of top political figures pile up, in a different state
each time, the federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies have
their hands full, and are getting nowhere. It is as if the killers are
getting inside information from some highly placed official. Long ago Colby
had made a choice for a family over his former life style. He is a reluctant
warrior as he spearheads the hunt by a small covert agency in a race
against the clock. His charge is to get the killers before any other
agency, to handle things quietly, permanently. But the killers know
his assignment as well as he does, and it is not long before they look for
his soft spot, and then they learn of his family. . .
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fast-paced action thriller may be available at bookstores near you!
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