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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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