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21) Next: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
One of America's most distinctive voices, James Hynes taps his dark humor for this startling novel. In the wake of a terrorist attack, neurotic Kevin Quinn flies to Austin, Texas, for a job interview. But when he lands, he finds himself following the beguiling young woman who sat next to him on the plane.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Berkley ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 291 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
After a prostitute is murdered at the Easy Nickel saloon, Texas Ranger Josiah Wolfe finds his best friend, Scrap Elliot, in jail and wrongly accused. A strangely familiar horse and a mysterious code are the only clues Josiah has to prove his friend's innocence and save him from execution. Once a Yankee reporter gets involved, Josiah is led to Blanche Dumont's House of Pleasures, where he learns of a thieving, jail-broken accountant with strange ties...
23) The Roxy letters
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Meet Roxy. She's a sometimes vegan, always broke artist with a heart the size of Texas and an ex living in her spare bedroom. Her life is messy, but with the help of a few good friends and by the grace of the goddess Venus she'll discover that good sex, true love, and her life's purpose are all closer than she realizes.Bridget Jones penned a diary; Roxy writes letters. Specifically: she writes letters to her hapless, rent-avoidant ex-boyfriend--and...
24) Deathwalk
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
St. Martin's paperbacks ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 280 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
Could the most feared gunman in the West Ben Thompson carved out a name for himself as a gambler and a shootist-from Dodge City to the Rio Grande. But settling down in Austin with a wife and young son didn't settle Ben's taste for the sporting life. He still found himself in the gambling dives-where the turn of a card too often led to a shootout. Become a respectable lawman in the wildest city in Texas? Soon a circle of powerful businessmen decides...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Berkley trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
As a result of a divorce and the recession, Joanie, her teenage daughter, Caroline, and her elderly mother, Ivy, try to live under the same roof without going completely crazy and learn that the past can sometimes be undone.
26) Deadly election
Author
Series
Gunsmith volume 374
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Jove ed.
Physical Desc
187 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hired by the Secret Service to pose as a Democratic candidate for congress, Clint Adams, transformed into an distinguished gentleman, must expose a killer who has been using a gun to cast his vote.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
In Shadow Killers, The Reverend Titus Jacoby has come to Cimarron on a mission: to put himself up as bait for a shadowy coalition of corrupt landowners known as the Santa Fe Ring. But for those who intend to keep their stranglehold on New Mexico, going after the good Reverend will be a big mistake--because the fiery-talking man of God is really Cole Braddock, the West's most notorious manhunter operating in disguise. And with a little help from a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Graham Pugh should be having a ball as a student at the University of Texas in Austin. Unfortunately for him, he loathes his roommate, Bishop 'Call Me Bish' Alexander, to the point where he quite literally dreams of killing him. Even more unfortunately for Graham, when he wakes up one morning for a lecture, he finds that Bishop actually is dead on the floor. With Graham the prime suspect, E.J., Willis and the girls race up to Austin. Unsurprisingly,...
30) Last seen alone
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Up-and-coming attorney Leigh Larson fights for victims of sexual extortion, harassment, and online abuse. She is not afraid to go after the sleaziest targets to get payback for her clients. Leigh is laser-focused on her career--to the exclusion of everything else--until a seemingly routine case and a determined cop turn her world upside down. Austin homicide detective Brandon Reynolds is no stranger to midnight callouts. But when he gets summoned...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Poppy's parents are paranormal investigators who have never actually found anything, but that may change when they move to Austin, Texas, and Poppy meets a goblin in the attic of their new house.