Do You Matter?

Stewart Emery

russ-hall

Robert Brunner

Pearson Education Limited

No Murder Before Its Time

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Worldwide

Retired schoolteacher Esbeth Walters takes a job as dispatcher in a rural Texas community and finds her sharp wits quickly tested in a double murder investigation. Someone has killed the town's mayor then one week later, a skeleton is pulled from the bottom of a lake. Missing for forty years, it's the mayor's older brother, a decorated war veteran. Esbeth is further drawn into the dark undertow of a small town gripped by betrayal, violence, greed, corruption and a lost fortune in diamonds. She's put her stock in trustworthy Texas Ranger Tillis Macrory, perhaps the only local lawman around worthy of the badge. But that doesn't stop her from trying to uncover the shocking truth about what's been happening in Hoel's Dam or finding herself in dangerously deep waters as terrible secrets emerge.

Black like Blood

Paperback is an Esbeth Walters mystery with a small-town Texas background.

Goodbye, She Lied (An Esbeth Walters Mystery)

Worldwide Library

Walt, 14, and his sister Mindy, 12, are attacked by giant sword-bearing warrior butterflies in their first outing after crash landing inside Jupiter. The only survivors of their ship, they soon learn that all the remaining colonists are nearly their ages as well. All the tension does not stem from an environmental experiment gone wrong, where grasshoppers are the size of camels and praying mantises are as big as giraffes. The children do not get along that well either. Add to that predators that just want to eat them, and the inside of Jupiter seems far from a happy wonderland. NOTE: 100% of the royalties for the sale of this book go to Doctors Without Borders.

Inside Jupiter

Rival Media Publishing

Arthur Sanderson remembers Frankie Lane from their high school days as a pudgy nerd. Forty years later he sure seems lean and fit enough as he runs through an airport to the sound of guns firing. At the speed of a bullet Arthur's reclusive life changes forever and he gets only brief chances to ponder what swept him into the path of action-filled chaos and who to trust . . . and who not to trust at all as he sorts through a tangle of agendas and romances past and present when thrust back into the lives of former cheerleader Poppy Perkin, class genius "Dirty Fingernails" Huff Ocher, and a handful of other classmates. Having grown up in the shadow of an Ohio nuclear plant now run by Unitalon's Steve Hamilton, they don't have to wonder long what brought an old spy like Frankie in out of the cold, they just have to figure out, in very little time, if they can work together to save the nation.

Talon's Grip

At seventy-two, Esbeth Walters shouldn't be messing around with murder. But when Texas Hill Country vintner Win Castle pits his sons against each other over the inheritance of his 21,000-acre cattle ranch and vineyard, the result is murder. Esbeth, an employee of the Castle's winery, is right in the middle of it - and the local authorities think she knows more than she's telling.

Thorndike Press

Esbeth Walters is 72 and shouldn't be messing around with murder, but when Texas Hill Country winemaster Win Castle pits his sons against each other over the inheritance of a 21,000-acre spread including the winery where Esbeth works part-time, the result is murder, and Esbeth is in the middle of it. Texas Ranger Tillis Macrory and Sheriff Watkins think she knows more than she's telling.

Five Star First Edition Mystery - No Murder Before Its Time (Esbeth Walters Mysteries)

Five Star

The Texas hill country in the 1870s was as close to a cauldron of devil's stew as you could find. The Comanches, Kiowas, and Cheyennes have banded together. Rebel soldiers, resentful of the way in which they have been treated, have begun rustling cattle. Amid this seething unrest rides seventeen-year-old Mick, without a gun, impoverished and half starved. Mick is fortunate when he meets Syd, a Mexican girl, on the trail. Faced by a land as harsh as cactus and mesquite stickers, and as poisonous as the bite of a rattler, an alliance seems to their advantage. But neither is prepared for the violence and danger that threaten from every side. 
 Born in Colorado, Russ Hall lives in Texas hill country. Beginning with Harper &amp; Row, he worked as an editor for over twenty-five years with major publishing firms. He has eight previously published books, primarily mysteries. He has also published numerous short stories and was winner of the Nancy Pickard Fiction Award.

Five Star First Edition Westerns - Bent Red Moon: A Western Story

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Esbeth Walters, a retired high school math teacher in her youthful 70s, tells herself that she's never too old to learn something new the hard way when she takes a job as part-time dispatcher at the Sheriff's Department - just a week after the mayor of a small town in the county has been murdered. New to the area, she soon learns that somewhere under the crust of her newly adopted rural Texas county there is a history of feuds, corruption, betrayal, and violence. Wild talk of a lost diamond mine helps to peel back the scab and she begins to wonder if even Texas Ranger Tillis Macrory isn't as tainted as the rest of them. He is overly friendly to attractive deputy Gala and has sat at the card table of gambler Morgan Lane. Esbeth tells him, "I think there's something about this one you needed, something that rattles you to your deeps." Tillis isn't helped when the murdered mayor's son Donnie and his girlfriend, Karyn, find another body - Denny's brother Hugh, who's been missing for forty years. Donnie and Karyn, daughter of Tillis' game warden friend, Logan Rainey, can't seem to leave the mess alone, and their relentless digging unearths a side to the story no one, not even Esbeth, could have expected.  Russ Hall resides in rustic splendor on a lake in the Hill Country of central Texas.

Black Like Blood: An Esbeth Walters Mystery (Five Star First Edition Mystery)

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Do You Matter?

No Murder Before Its Time

Black like Blood

Goodbye, She Lied (An Esbeth Walters Mystery)

Inside Jupiter

Talon's Grip

No Murder Before Its Time

Five Star First Edition Mystery - No Murder Before Its Time (Esbeth Walters Mysteries)

Five Star First Edition Westerns - Bent Red Moon: A Western Story

Black Like Blood: An Esbeth Walters Mystery (Five Star First Edition Mystery)