Evil at the Root - A Dan Rhodes Mystery (Dan Rhodes Mysteries Book 5) by Bill Crider In this latest Sheriff Dan Rhodes adventure, Bill Crider sends the small-town Texas lawman to investigate the apparent theft of a set of false teeth from one of the elderly residents of the Sunny Dale Nursing Home. The case, which begins as one merely embarrassing ("Ah ain't got no TEEF!") quickly turns serious when the owner of the... Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
Winning Can Be Murder - A Dan Rhodes Mystery (Dan Rhodes Mysteries Book 8) by Bill Crider It's been a while since Sheriff Dan Rhodes's football days, but things haven't really changed, at least not with state playoffs coming up and excitement for the local high school team heating up to a fever pitch.But then coach Brady Meredith is found shot to death in his car, and his murder leads to troublesome rumors concerning illegal... Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
Too Late to Die - A Dan Rhodes Mystery (Dan Rhodes Mysteries Book 1) by Bill Crider Everyone knew her. A lot of them like her. One of them killed her.Jeanne Clinton was a pretty and well-liked woman—though in her younger days she'd been known to be a bit wild. But she married an older man and settled down to a quiet, respectable life. Now she is dead, brutally murdered in her home.Dan Rhodes, the thoughtful... Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers; All Westerns | | |
Shotgun Saturday Night - A Dan Rhodes Mystery (Dan Rhodes Mysteries Book 2) by Bill Crider Sheriff Dan Rhodes knows it's going to be a bad day when Bert Ramsey arrives at the jail with a neatly wrapped arm and lays it on Dan's desk. He has another out in the truck, he tells the sheriff, and "a couple of legs, too, but they don't match up."To Rhodes's relief, the severed limbs—part of a large cache Bert has discovered while... Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers; All Westerns | | |
Death on the Move - A Dan Rhodes Mystery (Dan Rhodes Mysteries Book 4) by Bill Crider Someone in Blacklin County, Texas, is being disrespectful of the dead, and Sheriff Dan Rhodes must put a stop to it. First, there's the matter of the bodies at Ballinger's Funeral Home and the apparent misplacing of their valuables; the bereaved are beside themselves. There'd best be immediate action or the bell could toll again, this... Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
Booked for a Hanging - A Dan Rhodes Mystery (Dan Rhodes Mysteries Book 6) by Bill Crider The versatile mystery novelist Bill Crider has created a pantheon of marvelous characters, but none is more real, warm, and thoroughly delightful than Sheriff Dan Rhodes of Blacklin County, Texas. In his sixth adventure, Rhodes is confronted with what seems at first to be a suicide: the body of a man newly arrived in the county is found... Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
Cursed to Death - A Dan Rhodes Mystery (Dan Rhodes Mysteries Book 3) by Bill Crider In tiny Blacklin County, Texas, a curse is nothing more than a four-letter word hollered in a barroom or muttered in the heat. So Sheriff Dan Rhodes is more curious than concerned when he dutifully responds to a complaint of witchcraft.When Dr. Samuel Martin, the local dentist — and unpopular landlord — claims he's been hexed by a... Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
Murder Most Fowl - A Dan Rhodes Mystery (Dan Rhodes Mysteries Book 7) by Bill Crider Following Booked for a Hanging, Anthony Award-winner Bill Crider brings back his amiable, computer-phobic sheriff Dan Rhodes to investigate a murder that may or may not be related to a recent wave of emu-rustling. For an officer of the law, Blacklin County, Texas, used to be pretty peaceful, but now, what with the emu-rustling... Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
The Texas Capitol Murders by Bill Crider The classic novel of Texas politics and murder, available for the first time in more than 20 years!It's the end of the '80s. The Texas capitol building is being remodeled, and there's a body dumped in the trash. There's a witness who needs to be eliminated, and there's a slightly strange governor who wants the Texas Rangers called in.... Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Or FREE with Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
A Ghost of a Chance - A Dan Rhodes Mystery (Dan Rhodes Mysteries Book 10) by Bill Crider In this tenth installment of the Sheriff Dan Rhodes series, the Blacklin County Texas law enforcer is back to solve even more mysteries. Some of the most amusing sequences in Crider's Blacklin county mysteries are set in the jailhouse, and star the ongoing word battles between its two septuagenarian denizens, Hack the dispatcher and... Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
The Prairie Chicken Kill (Truman Smith Mystery Series Book 4) by Bill Crider From Publishers WeeklyIn this enjoyable fourth series entry, Galveston PI Truman Smith (When Old Men Die, 1994) is hired by Lance Garrison, his still unpleasant but now rich high-school classmate, to investigate the shooting of a prairie chicken (really a kind of grouse) on Garrison's federally protected land in Picketville, Tex. Smith... Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
The Blacklin County Files by Bill Crider, Judy Crider Sheriff Dan Rhodes tackles five tough cases with compassion and humor. Killers, crooks, cats, cattle, cranks, and ice cream. Plus recipes! Today's Bargain Price: $2.99 Or FREE with Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
...A Dangerous Thing (The Carl Burns Mystery Series Book 3) by Bill Crider Professor Carl Burns knew the new dean wasn't going to work out when she bought the two goats. And that was the least of the problems. Hartley Gorman College was being attacked - with a vengeance - by the forces of political correctness, and the new dean was an unreconstructed hippie. Courses would have to be rewritten, manners... Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
Death's Brother: A Top Suspense Story by Bill Crider A poetry-loving professor, a beautiful young woman, and a plot for the perfect murder. What could possibly go wrong? Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
Dead on the Island (Truman Smith Private Eye Book 1) by Bill Crider Nominated for the Shamus Award for Best First Private Eye Novel PI Truman Smith has become a loner after failing to find his sister Jan during a recent search of Galveston Island. He jogs on the Seawall, plays with his cat, and reads lots of Faulkner books. He is pulled from his self-imposed retirement when his old high school football... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
A Vampire Named Fred by Bill Crider When someone finally moves into the old, dark, musty house next door, two boys make an unusual friend. "I always thought that vampires had to have names like Dracula or Vlad or Lestat, but that was before Fred moved into the house next door. In fact, I had a lot of wrong ideas about vampires, but Fred set me straight about most of them.... Today's Bargain Price: $1.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Teen Lit | | |
Murder Takes a Break (Truman Smith Mystery Series Book 5) by Bill Crider THE TRUMAN SMITH PRIVATE EYE SERIES: Truman Smith operates on Galveston Island, not far from Houston. The first book in the series, Dead on the Island, was nominated for a Shamus Award by the Private-Eye Writers of America.In Murder Takes a Break, Galveston, Texas principal investigator Truman Smith loathes missing person cases because... Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
A Time For Hanging by Bill Crider Lizzie Randall, the preacher's daughter, is murdered. The men of the west Texas town are set on lynching Paco Morales, a Mexican teenager who happened to be in the vicinity at the time. No proof, but, after all, he is only a Mexican. Reason and/or conscience work on most of the would-be lynchers, so that, in the end justice is served.... Today's Bargain Price: $2.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Action and Adventure; All Westerns | | |
One Dead Dean - A Carl Burns Mystery (The Carl Burns Mysteries Book 1) by Bill Crider "I can just imagine the questions in history," Fox said. "Who was our first of it, maybe the second one's too hard. But you get the idea!""Yeah," Burns said. "I get the idea."Hartley Gorman College, in Pecan City, Texas, is hardly a bastion of serious scholarship. The little Baptist school is more interested in shielding its students... Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
When Old Men Die (Truman Smith Mysteries Book 3) by Bill Crider Truman "Tru" Smith is a PI who'd rather be reading Faulkner or fishing on his beloved Galveston Island than solving mysteries, so when his friend Dino asks for help, Tru at first demurs. With some not-very-subtle arm twisting, Dino finally persuades Tru to investigate the disappearance of Old Harry, a homeless vagrant whom Dino and his... Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
The Nighttime is the Right Time by Bill Crider The Nighttime is the Right Time is a collection of short fiction from the author of the popular Sheriff Dan Rhodes series. In these 11 previously published tales, we meet a detective who also happens to be a werewolf; investigate two separate missing-animal cases; tag along with series characters Carl Burns (the amateur-sleuth English... Today's Bargain Price: $2.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Horror; All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
Ryan Rides Back by Bill Crider Bill Kane was going to hang for murdering Ryan's sister... After three long years, folks were shocked Ryan would show his face after abandoning his sister to her bloody fate. Others were amazed - and frightened - that he was back at all. No man could have survived that night in Shatter's Grove.But Ryan was no ordinary man, and Tularosa... Today's Bargain Price: $2.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Action and Adventure; All Westerns | | |
Dead Soldiers (The Carl Burns Mystery Series Book 4) by Bill Crider Bill Crider, famous for the popular Sheriff Dan Rhodes mystery series, is back with a mystery novel combining his wry wit, a clever plot, and the usual hijinks - all set against the normally placid backdrop of academia. First, someone steals several valuable toy soldiers from the collection of the dean of a small liberal arts school. The... Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
Medicine Show by Bill Crider Ray Storey plays the role of Kit Carson in Col. A. J. Mahaffey's Authentic Medicine Show, wearing a fringed outfit and doing trick shooting to help the colonel push his Miracle Oil and Indian Vitality Pills. Storey's using his job with the show to travel around the country to look for the men who killed his parents, and of course there's... Today's Bargain Price: $2.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Action and Adventure; All Westerns | | |
Blood Marks by Bill Crider He's smart, he's attractive, and he has a special vision: whenever he sees the blood marks on a woman--marks only he can see--he knows what he must do.Kill her. Brutally. And not leave a trace of himself behind.Nine women have died so far. And pretty Casey Buckner may be next. A young divorcee who's recently moved into an apartment... Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
Dying Voices (The Carl Burns Mystery Series Book 2) by Bill Crider Pecan City, Texas, is a quiet, uneventful town. Hartley Gorman is a sedate, fundamentalist college (although a dean was murdered there once—in Bill Crider's One Dead Dean). English professor Carl Burns is about to begin yet another year in such a place, with only the eccentricities of his fellow teachers to entertain him. Even Burns... Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
Murder is an Art: A Mystery (Professor Sally Good Mysteries Book 1) by Bill Crider Dr. Sally Good, head of the English and Fine Arts Division of the Hughes Community College in Texas, has her hands full. On top of dealing with the numerous complaints from testy faculty members concerning the allocation of the department's budget, she must also conduct an inquiry into the recent misbehavior of the department's... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
Galveston Gunman by Bill Crider Lee Strate has been shot and left for dead by two men who stole every penny of his $5000 fortune. His life is saved by Jack, a freed black man who agrees to help him track down his money. Heading to Galveston, they discover the thieves are working for the powerful Colonel Benson. Lee and Jack discover that Colonel Benson is involved in... Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Historical Fiction; All Westerns | | |
A Knife in the Back: A Case for Professor Sally Good (Professor Sally Good Mysteries Book 2) by Bill Crider Dr. Sally Good, chair of the Department of English at Hughes Community College has learned how to cope with the many minor disasters and a couple of major ones, including a murder, that have cropped up since her tenure. Right now, however, her only worry is about her own behavior. She's just violated one of the major rules for department... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
A Bond with Death: A Professor Sally Good Mystery (Professor Sally Good Mysteries Book 3) by Bill Crider Sally's husband has been dead for eight years; his remote ancestor, the witch Sarah Good, died on the scaffold in Salem more than four hundred years ago. Yet the president of Sally's college is afraid the story will reflect on the institution. Sally is annoyed. Sarah Good wasn't her ancestor; she was the forbear of Sally's dead husband.... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
Eight Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Bill Crider Available for the first time in a single collection, eight stories featuring the World's Greatest Detective, Sherlock Holmes, written by award-winning author Bill Crider. Return to 221B Baker Street as Holmes and his trusty sidekick, Dr. Watson, investigate vampires, ghouls, ghosts, and other mysterious creatures.Featured in this... Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |