Bill Crider

A Texas mystery author like no other, Bill Crider is widely praised for his realistic stories of small town mischief, including, A Romantic Way to Die. Dr. Sally Good, chair of the local community college's English department, is breaking her own rule: don't date staff members. But when her date, Neville, comes under investigation for murdering one of the college's trustees, Sally suddenly has a lot more on her plate than dinner.

Blacklin County, Texas hasn't seen much action since Sheriff Dan Rhodes' childhood days. So when a ghost is sighted in the jail, and Ty Berry, president of the area's historical preservation group, is murdered, the small county is shocked. Rhodes must get to the bottom of these mysteries before it's too late.

"Life is never easy for Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes. When he is called in the middle of the night to investigate gunshots at a haunted house, Rhodes finds the body of meth dealer Neil Foshee. Recently released from jail, Foshee has his fair share of potential murderers, including former girlfriend Vicki, her new boyfriend, the nephew of Clearview's mayor, and Foshee's criminal cousins Earl and Louie. Complicating matters is Seepy Benton, the community...

When an infestation of feral pigs culminates in a murder in Blacklin County, Sheriff Dan Rhodes finds the ensuing investigation complicated by angry hog hunters, a crusading talk-show host, a bounty hunter, and the reappearance of a troublemaking motorcycle duo.

"In Compound Murder, award-winning Bill Crider invites mystery fans on a new adventure with Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes. Before classes start one morning, the body of English instructor Earl Wellington is found outside the building of the community college campus in Clearview. Wellington was clearly involved in a struggle with someone and has died as a result. Sheriff Dan Rhodes pursues and arrests a student, Ike Terrell, who was fleeing the campus....

Bill Crider's Dan Rhodes novels feature formidable mysteries and dark humor. In his 14th exploit, Rhodes discovers local octogenarian Helen Harris dead on her kitchen floor. It looks like an accident, but Rhodes knows there's more to this case.

"The local community college and an antique dealer team up to have a workshop for artists. One local man, Burt Collins, isn't fond of the art, and he isn't fond of having the artists in town. Sheriff Dan Rhodes is called to the antique store because Collins has been accused of vandalizing some paintings. When Rhodes arrives, two men are restraining Collins. But before Rhodes can take Collins into custody, a near riot breaks out. Rhodes gets the situation...

Texan Bill Crider is the best-selling author of Red, White, and Blue Murder and A Knife in the Back. This welcome addition to Crider's well-liked series finds strange things afoot in Blacklin County, Texas. One fine morning, a local man named Bud Turley strolls into Sheriff Rhodes' station holding a gargantuan tooth. Soon Bigfoot hysteria spreads through town.

In the summer of 1970, a possible insurance scam takes Houston PI Ted Stephens to Losgrove, Miss., where he meets Mississippi Vivian, a waitress at the Magnolia Café, the town's nerve center. A corporate client, the National Insurance Company, is skeptical of 12 suspicious claims originating from Losgrove. Ted asks Mississippi for her help, but the possibly self-inflicted shooting death of one of the claimants, Perce Segal, at the house of another...