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Black Night Falling

Black Night Falling
  • Author(s): Rod Reynolds
  • Location(s): Arkansas, Texas
  • Genre(s): Noir
  • Era(s): 1946

And now I stood here, on a desolate airfield in the Arkansas wilderness, a stone’s throw from Texarkana. Darkness drawing in on me. Cross country to see a man I never imagined seeing again. On the strength of one...

Black Storm

Black Storm
  • Author(s): Mark Gillespie
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Modern Day

These are the last days. The Black Storm – a permanent state of darkness has engulfed the Earth. Despair is everywhere. The world is going mad without sunlight. Ex-movie star, Cody MacLeod will do anything to protect his daughter...

Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59)

Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59)
  • Author(s): Attica Locke
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Dazzlingly good … a seriously impressive writer’ Observer Southern fables usually go the other way around. A white woman is killed or harmed in some way, real or imagined, and then, like the moon follows the sun, a black...

Bridge Beyond Betrayal

Bridge Beyond Betrayal
  • Author(s): Stephanie Parker McKean
  • Location(s): Three Prongs
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

Bridge Beyond Betrayal, the second in the Miz Mike series, is dedicated to late USMC Major Luke Parker and includes his prophetic poem. As if feisty, independent Texas Miz Mike didn’t get into enough trouble minding her own business...

Bridge to Nowhere

Bridge to Nowhere
  • Author(s): Stephanie Parker McKean
  • Location(s): Three Prongs
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

When son Ron orders his chocolate-loving widowed mother, Michal Allison Rice—better known as “Miz Mike” in Three Prongs, Texas, where misfits fit—to act her age (40-something) and mind her own business, he doesn’t understand that Miz Mike doesn’t find...

Bridge to Xanadu

Bridge to Xanadu
  • Author(s): Stephanie Parker McKean
  • Location(s): Three Prongs
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

From finding a dead body in the dumpster at the sheriff’s office to being straddled by a knife-welding rapist and serial killer, Texas Miz Mike is back in her most gripping and humorous mystery-romance-suspense ever, Bridge to Xanadu. Who...

Caller Unknown

Caller Unknown
  • Author(s): Gillian McAllister
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Simone’s holiday to Texas was meant to be some much needed bonding time with her teenage daughter, Lucy. On their first night in the desert, Simone wakes to find Lucy missing and a mobile phone in her place. The...

Christmas in Austin

Christmas in Austin
  • Author(s): Benjamin Markovits
  • Location(s): Austin, Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the four Essinger children gather in Austin for Christmas, they all bring their news. Nathan wants to become a federal judge. Susie’s husband has taken a job in England. Jean has asked her boyfriend and (once-married) boss to...

Comanche Moon

Comanche Moon
  • Author(s): Larry McMurtry
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1850s to 1860s

The second book in the Lonesome Dove quartet, Comanche Moon, which follows on from Dead Man’s Walk and prequels Lonesome Dove, follows ranchers Gus and Call in their bitter struggle to protect the advancing West frontier against the defiant...

Dallas Noir

Dallas Noir
  • Author(s): David Hale Smith
  • Location(s): Dallas
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

The city of Dallas is often overlooked. But on 22 November every year, the memory comes back around in a nightmare loop. John F. Kennedy’s assassination at Dealey Plaza shocked the world, but it also unleashed Dallas’s obsession with...

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