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Author
Series
Lily Bard mysteries volume 3
Language
English
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"Determined to move beyond her violent past, Lily heads to her hometown of Bartley for her estranged sister's Christmas Eve wedding. But there is something in the air besides holiday cheer--murder." --Back cover.
Author
Language
English
Description
"It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue."--
Author
Series
Maple Falls novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When her grandmother injures herself sliding into third base, Riley McAllister must return to her small hometown to help run the family yarn store in this sweet, lighthearted romantic comedy"--
Author
Series
Seven brides for seven Scotsmen volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When he comes to the rescue of Emily Stanton, a beautiful Englishwoman who should be his enemy, Scotsman Iain MacEnroy finds his life transformed in ways he never imagined.
Author
Series
Lily Bard mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
A new series set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, featuring a heroine who runs a cleaning business. One night in a garbage bag she discovers the body of her landlord, which makes her a suspect. Now she must clear her name. A study in smalltown inhabitants.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Ellie, Chloe and Rachel are friends (sort of); waitresses at the same tired bar in the Arkansas college town they've stuck around in too long. Each is becoming unmoored in her own way: Ellie obliterates all feeling with alcohol and self-destructive acts of sexual promiscuity; Chloe pulls out patches of her hair and struggles to keep incipient mental illness at bay; changeable Rachel has fallen under the sway of a messianic boyfriend with whom she's...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When the body of her violent stepfather surfaces in the Arkansas River twenty-five years after his disappearance, Jane Mooney returns to Maud Bottoms to reckon with her past, and discovers some secrets are better left undisturbed.
Author
Series
Lily Bard mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004, ©2000
Language
English
Description
When the local woman of ill repute is found murdered, being familiar with her dirty laundry could make Lily Bard the next Shakespearean to die.
10) Night terror
Author
Series
Trailsman volume 391
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the wilds of Arkansas swamp country, someone--or something--is on a killing spree. And the only things left behind are the victims' heads. Fargo would rather just pass through and not get too involved. But there are some acts of savagery that cannot be ignored. And the Trailsman is about to face off against a killer unlike any he has ever met.
11) Backwoods brawl
Author
Series
Trailsman volume 348
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"In the wilds of northwest Arkansas, a local U.S. Army fort is under attack. Not from an enemy army, but from a band of highwaymen who kill at will and strike without warning, then fade into the shadows. And Fargo, helped by a half-crazy Choctaw, is the only one who can hunt down the murderers and deliver justice..."--P. [4] of cover.
12) Pocket change
Author
Publisher
Mantle Rock Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Mary Clare Casteel (Mac) discovers her contractor stuffed in the display coffin of Pocket Change, her soon-to-open eclectic business, it puts the skids on secret plans to use her recent Publisher's Clearing House winnings to assist at-risk businesses in her small town of Pocket, Arkansas. Enter her quirky family and tantalizing new neighbor, Mick Walker. Murder, techie mishaps, and a host of Southern traditions accompany Mary Clare as she juggles...
13) Don't know tough
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Trent Powers relocates his family from Anaheim to Arkansas to take over as head coach of the Denton Pirates, a high school football team powered by a volatile but talented running back named Billy Lowe. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his unstable mother's abusive boyfriend. Billy takes out his anger on the field, and it's not long before he crosses a line. Instead of punishing him, though, Trent...
14) Find him
Author
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Up until now, 18-year-old Lily Stevens has always been the perfect daughter of a Pentecostal preacher, but her insular Arkansas congregation is scandalized when Lily announces she's pregnant with the baby of Peter Cutchin, a young man in the church. When Peter disappears before they can get married, Lily's life is thrown into even greater turmoil. Everyone in their small town, including Peter's furious mother, thinks the boy has simply run off and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Mallory Martin left her marriage and her unfulfilling job to move back to her hometown of Hillspring, Arkansas, and start a horse rescue. It's everything she's been missing, with paddocks of happy horses and one very quirky donkey. But when her cantankerous neighbor and longtime critic, Albert Cunningham, is found murdered in his fancy show barn, Mallory becomes suspect number one. Since Sheriff Grady Sullivan is ignoring all good sense and focusing...
Author
Series
Lily Bard mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005, ©2001
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Cleaning woman and karate expert Lily Bard is a woman with a complicated past. Trying her best to cope with her terrifying memories and horrible nightmares, she decides to join a weekly group therapy session in her hometown of Shakespeare, Arkansas. At first, Lily can hardly believe the number of her fellow Shakespeareans that share her life experiences. As it turns out, the group members' feelings aren't the only things that need...
17) Ozark dogs
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After his son is convicted of capital murder, Vietnam War veteran Jeremiah Fitzjurls takes over the care of his granddaughter, Joanna, raising her with as much warmth as can be found in a junkyard outfitted to be an armory. He teaches her how to shoot and fight, but there is not enough training in the world to protect her when the dreaded Ledfords, notorious meth dealers and fanatical white supremacists, come to collect on Joanna as payment for a...
18) My fair latte
Author
Series
Cafe cinema mystery volume 1
Publisher
Henery Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Broke, unemployed barista Halley Greer is shocked when she inherits an Art Deco movie palace from the great uncle she remembers meeting once as a child. She moves to the charming tourist town of Utopia Springs, Arkansas to claim her legacy. In addition to the timeworn theater, she discovers she's also inherited a trash-heaped apartment, family secrets, her uncle's friends, a stealthy calico kitty--and an adversary. With a whole latte help from her...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a 'good crop'." Thus begins from author John Grisham, a story inspired...
20) Texarkana
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. RUSTLERS' PARADISE. At first, the job sounds easy: lead a small herd of horses across the Arkansas-Texas border to the Double-D ranch near Texarkana. No problem--at least not for a man like Perley Gates. In fact, he's looking forward to the 150-mile journey with his old sidekick Possum Smith and young Sonny Rice, and doesn't expect any trouble along the way. Unfortunately, trouble has a way of finding Perley Gates. This time, it's...
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