A Killing at Cotton Hill

2013-07-16 Fiction

Author : Terry Shames
Release : 2013-07-16
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 004/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Killing at Cotton Hill by : Terry Shames

Download or read book A Killing at Cotton Hill written by Terry Shames. This book was released on 2013-07-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chief of police of Jarrett Creek, Texas, doubles as the town drunk. So when Dora Lee Parjeter is murdered, her old friend and former police chief Samuel Craddock steps in. He discovers that a lot of people had it in for Dora Lee. The conniving rascals on the farm next door want her land for nefarious purposes; her estranged daughter could be seeking vengeance; her grandson wants money for art school; and then there's that stranger Dora Lee claimed was spying on her. Does Craddock still have what it takes to find the killer? In this debut novel, the strong, compelling voice of Samuel Craddock illuminates the grandeur and loneliness of the central Texas landscape and reveals the human foibles of the residents in a small Texas town-their pettiness and generosity, their secret vices and true virtues.

The Last Death of Jack Harbin

2014-01-07 Fiction

Author : Terry Shames
Release : 2014-01-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 713/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Last Death of Jack Harbin written by Terry Shames. This book was released on 2014-01-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small town mystery and veteran's issues collide as retired police chief Samuel Craddock investigates a murder. Right before the outbreak of the Gulf War, two eighteen-year-old football stars and best friends from Jarrett Creek signed up for the army. Woody Patterson was rejected and stayed home to marry the girl they both loved, while Jack Harbin came back from the war badly damaged. The men haven't spoken since. Just as they are about to reconcile, Jack is brutally murdered. With the chief of police out of commission, trusted ex-chief Samuel Craddock steps in--again. Against the backdrop of small-town loyalties and betrayals, Craddock discovers dark secrets of the past and present to solve the mystery of Jack's death.

A Reckoning in the Back Country

2018-01-09 Fiction

Author : Terry Shames
Release : 2018-01-09
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 68X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A Reckoning in the Back Country written by Terry Shames. This book was released on 2018-01-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acting Police Chief Samuel Craddock investigates the murder of a visiting physician, whose mangled body is found in the woods. When Lewis Wilkins, a physician with a vacation home in Jarrett Creek, is attacked by vicious dogs, and several pet dogs in the area around Jarrett Creek disappear, Police Chief Samuel Craddock suspects that a dog fighting ring is operating in his territory. He has to tread carefully in his investigation, since lawmen who meddle in dog fighting put their lives at risk. The investigation is hampered because Wilkins is not a local. Craddock’s focus on the investigation is thrown off by the appearance of a new woman in his life, as well as his accidental acquisition of a puppy. Digging deeper, Craddock discovers that the public face Wilkins presented was at odds with his private actions. A terrible mistake led to his disgrace as a physician, and far from being a stranger, he has ongoing acquaintances with a number of county residents who play fast and loose with the law.

Cotton Comes to Harlem

2011-08-03 Fiction

Author : Chester Himes
Release : 2011-08-03
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 244/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Cotton Comes to Harlem written by Chester Himes. This book was released on 2011-08-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From “the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler” (San Francisco Chronicle) comes a hard-hitting, entertaining entry in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series about two NYPD detectives who must piece together the clues of the scam of a lifetime. Flim-flam man Deke O’Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta’s state penitentiary than he’s back on the streets working a big scam. As sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement, he’s counting on a big Harlem rally to produce a massive collection—for his own private charity. But the take is hijacked by white gunmen and hidden in a bale of cotton that suddenly everyone wants to get his hands on. As NYPD detectives “Coffin Ed” Johnson and “Grave Digger” Jones face the complexity of the scheme, we are treated to Himes’s brand of hard-boiled crime fiction at its very best.

An Unsettling Crime for Samuel Craddock

2017-01-03 Fiction

Author : Terry Shames
Release : 2017-01-03
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 098/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book An Unsettling Crime for Samuel Craddock written by Terry Shames. This book was released on 2017-01-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this prequel, a young Samuel Craddock, as the newly elected chief of police in Jarrett Creek, must investigate the murder of five black residents and confront the ingrained prejudices in the small Texas town"--

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