sheriffs

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sheriffs

The night of the dance

2003
Ten years ago, Sissy Fletcher, the preacher's daughter, disappeared into the night, never to be seen again, until a team drilling an oil well makes a grisly discovery that sends the town on a manhunt for a killer.

Badlands

2003
When a cult from California purchases a ranch on the outskirts of the Montana badlands, the townspeople are not pleased, and Gabriel Du Pr? vows to uncover the cult's motives and keep the peace.

High season

2007
Even though he left his job in Baltimore because he felt as if he could no longer work on murder cases, Provincetown sheriff Frank Coffin decides to investigate the killing of a television evangelist who was found dead and dressed as a woman.

Paradise lost

2001
Joanna Brady, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, embarks on a very personal investigation when she believes her daughter Jenny may be next on the list of a murderer who killed Jenny's tentmate just days after the two girls stumbled across a dead heiress while on a scouting trip.

Bloodroot

2000
Wesley, an aging African-American man who has served as caretaker of a vanished family's estate in Charlottesville, Virginia for many years, is pushed over the brink of violence when he refuses to vacate the land to make way for a proposed turpentine plant.

A romantic way to die

a Sheriff Dan Rhodes mystery
2001

Exit wounds

2004
Sheriff Joanna Brady investigates the shocking discovery of eighteen murder victims in a mobile home.

Diamond dogs

a novel
2000
Seventeen-year-old Neil Garvin blames his abusive father for driving his mother away years earlier, and plans on leaving his small hometown after graduating high school, but when he accidentally commits a terrible crime, which his father, unasked, covers up, he finds himself unwillingly indebted to his father.

Wool

a novel
2013
In a toxic world, a community lives underground, when Sheriff Holston asks to leave and go outside, mechanic Juliette is appointed as the new sheriff and learns how badly her world is broken.

Brimstone

2010
Freelance gunslingers Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch find Allie French working in a brothel and relocate with her to Brimstone where they are hired as deputy sheriffs, but a string of murders and frequent disagreements between the local saloon owner and preacher make it difficult for Cole and Hitch to keep the peace.

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