Terry Shames. Prometheus/Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (235p) ISBN 978-1-61614-799-0
Shames’s promising debut, the first in a series, introduces retired police chief Samuel Craddock of Jarrett Creek, Tex., a strong-minded, fairly able-bodied, and firmly decent man in his 60s. After the fatal stabbing of widow Dora Lee Parjeter,...
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Terry Shames. Prometheus Books/Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (250p) ISBN 978-1-61614-871-3
In Shames’s absorbing second Samuel Craddock mystery (after 2013’s A Killing at Cotton Hill), best friends and high school football stars Woody Patterson and Jack Harbin pledge to go into the Army together. Their plans go terribly awry when Woody is
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Terry Shames. Prometheus Books/Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (250p) ISBN 978-1-61614-996-3
Jarrett Creek, Tex., is running out of money in Shames’s solid third mystery featuring retired police chief Sam Craddock (after A Killing in Cotton Hill). Since the small town can now afford only two part-time police officers, Craddock volunteers to
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Terry Shames. Prometheus Books/Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (250p) ISBN 978-1-63388-046-7
In Shames’s winning fourth Samuel Craddock mystery (after 2014’s Dead Broke in Jarrett Creek), the laconic Texas lawman takes up a case based on the incoherent mutterings of a dying woman, Vera Sandstone. It’s not really a case as such, since Vera...
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Terry Shames. Prometheus Books/Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paperback (262p) ISBN 978-1-63388-120-4
In Shames’s engrossing fifth Samuel Craddock mystery (after 2015’s A Deadly Affair at Bobtail Ridge), the return of Winona “Nonie” Blake, who was sent to an institution near Dallas 20 years earlier, at age 14, after she tried to hang her younger...
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Terry Shames. Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (255p) ISBN 978-1-63388-209-6
Shames’s superior sixth Samuel Craddock mystery (after 2016’s The Necessary Murder of Nonie Blake), a prequel set possibly during the early 1970s, explores a significant case at the start of the retired police chief’s career. After a period of...
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Terry Shames. Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-63388-367-3
In Shames’s enjoyable seventh Samuel Craddock mystery (after 2017’s An Unsettling Crime for Samuel Craddock), the Jarrett Creek, Tex., police chief investigates the killing of Lewis Wilkins, a San Antonio doctor who owns a local vacation home. When...
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Terry Shames. Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-63388-490-8
A controversy over the upcoming goat rodeo brings Loretta Singletary to the doorstep of Samuel Craddock, the police chief of Jarrett Creek, Tex., in Shames’s appealing eighth series mystery (after 2018’s A Reckoning in the Back Country). As a...
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Terry Shames. Severn, $29.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4483-0934-4
The stabbing murder of convenience store owner Amber Johnson on the opening night of the annual Jarrett Creek, Tex., motorcycle rally drives Shames’s entertaining ninth Samuel Craddock mystery (after 2019’s A Risky Undertaking for Loretta Singletary)
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