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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed it. The facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, 1991, the naked, bound-and-gagged bodies of the four girls--each one shot in the head--were found...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Alice Conroe, a forty year old Texas barbecue owner who has the perfect life, except she and her husband long for a child. Unable to conceive, she's trying desperately to adopt but her destiny is quickly altered by a young woman she's never met. Fearless thirteen-year-old Carla Trujilio is being raised by her grandmother in Honduras along with her four year old twin brothers. Her mother is sending money home from Texas where she's trying to make...
Author
Publisher
New Horizon Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Traces the 1985 murder of Natalie Antonetti, documenting the attack that led to her death, the accusation of Dennis Davis by his wife, and the investigation by the author, a rookie prosecutor working a first homicide case under an impending deadline.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Eagerly taking work as a new guitarist for a former country music legend, Vietnam veteran Creed Mason partners with Texas Ranger Hooley Johnson, who believes that the band has ties to a string of mob hits.
1975. Guitarist Creed Mason hopes to ride the new wave of Texas-style, Austin-based country music all the way back to the big time. A one-hit wonder whose Nashville career was cut short by a trip to Vietnam, Creed is desperate to get back into...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Best friends forever is a post-apocalyptic Thelma and Louise, where the bond of two badass girlfriends can survive anything, even the end of the world. Harriet (writer/director Brea Grant) is a perpetually perky comic-book artist who has hit a dead-end in Los Angeles. She drags her party-girl BFF Reba (co-writer Vera Miao) along for a road trip to Austin, Texas. Just as they pull out of town, a series of atomic bombs explode across the U.S., and the...
14) Austin noir
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Austin joins Dallas and Houston in Akashic's deep dive into the Lone Star State's darkest dimensions Featuring brand-new stories Gabino Iglesias, Ace Atkins, Amanda Moore, Jeff Abbott, Scott Montgomery, Richard Z. Santos, Alexandra Burt, Lee Thomas, Miriam Kuznets, Jacob Grovey, Chaitali Sen, Molly Odintz, Amy Gentry, and Andrew Hilbert. From the editors' "You've probably heard of Austin. You may have been here for South by Southwest. Your best friend...
Author
Series
Tony Boudreaux mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Avalon Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Tony Boudreaux mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Avalon Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Acerbic and ruefully funny, this book weaves tales of young women-- deeply flawed and intensely real-- who struggle to get out of their own way. They love to drink and have sex; they make bad decisions with men who either love them too much or too little; and they haunt a Southern terrain of gas stations, public pools, and dive bars. Though each character shoulders the weight of her own baggage-- whether it's a string of horrible exes, a boyfriend...
Author
Series
Franki Amato mystery volume 1
Publisher
Gemma Halliday Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An unfortunate 911 call involving her boyfriend, Vince, and a German female wrestler convinces Francesca "Franki" Amato that she just isn't cut out for a life on the police force. So Franki makes the snap decision to move from Austin to New Orleans to work at her friend Veronica's detective agency, Private Chicks, Inc. Hopes for a more stable life are dashed when Private Chicks is hired to find out what really happened to a beautiful young boutique...
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