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Blue Running

Blue Running
  • Author(s): Lori Ann Stephens
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Future

In the new Republic of Texas, guns are compulsory and nothing is forgiven. Blue Running is a gripping coming-of-age thriller for fans of Station Eleven and Thelma and Louise. Fourteen-year-old Bluebonnet Andrews is on the run across the Republic...

Galveston

Galveston
  • Author(s): Nic Pizzolatto
  • Location(s): Galveston, Louisiana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1980s

Roy Cady is by his own admission ‘a bad man’. With a snow flurry of cancer in his lungs and no one to live for, he’s a walking time-bomb of violence. Following a fling with his boss’s lover, he’s...

The Long Count

The Long Count
  • Author(s): J M Gulvin
  • Location(s): Alabama, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Later 1970s

In The Long Count, the first book of JM Gulvin’s masterful new crime series, we meet Ranger John Quarrie as he is called to the scene of an apparent suicide by a fellow war veteran. Although the local police want...

Fever City

Fever City
  • Author(s): Tim Baker
  • Location(s): Dallas, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s/2014

Nick Alston, a Los Angeles private investigator, is hired to find the kidnapped son of America’s richest and most hated man. Hastings, a mob hitman in search of redemption, is also on the trail. But both men soon become...

Odesa at Dawn

Odesa at Dawn
  • Author(s): Sally McGrane
  • Location(s): Odessa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ex-CIA man Max Rushmore travels to a still-peaceful Odesa on routine assignment. But things veer off course when the severed hand of the local governor shows up in a vat of sunflower oil. Max stumbles across a solitary toe,...

Sunset City

Sunset City
  • Author(s): Melissa Ginsburg
  • Location(s): Houston
  • Genre(s): Crime, Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Twenty-two-year-old Charlotte Ford reconnects with Danielle, her best friend from high school, a few days before Danielle is found bludgeoned to death in a motel room. In the wake of the murder, Charlotte’s life unravels and she descends into...

The Promise

The Promise
  • Author(s): Ann Weisgarber
  • Location(s): Galveston, Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

1900. Young pianist Catherine Wainwright flees the fashionable town of Dayton, Ohio in the wake of a terrible scandal. Heartbroken and facing destitution, she finds herself striking up correspondence with a childhood admirer, the recently widowed Oscar Williams. In...

Isaac’s Storm

Isaac’s Storm
  • Author(s): Erik Larson
  • Location(s): Galveston
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1900

On September 8, 1900, a massive hurricane slammed into Galveston, Texas. A tidal surge of some four feet in as many seconds inundated the city, while the wind destroyed thousands of buildings. When the water and winds subsided, entire...

Lone Star Noir

Lone Star Noir
  • Author(s): Bobby Byrd and Johnny Byrd
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

One can drive around Texas for a long time and never meet J.R. Ewing or Woodrow McCall. The real Texas hides out in towns and cities like those that readers will find in these stories. In that very Texan...

No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men
  • Author(s): Cormac McCarthy
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice – leave the scene as he found it,...

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