Henry Carter Hull

Billie, matriarch of the Coleman family, is dying and tries to heal the rifts that separate her family.

Hailed by the critics and lauded by readers for its riotously funny and scathing portrayal of America in an age of trial by media, materialism, and violence, Vernon God Little was an international sensation when it was first published in 2003 and awarded the prestigious Man Booker Prize. The memorable portrait of America is seen through the eyes of a wry, young, protagonist. Fifteen-year-old Vernon narrates the story with a cynical twang and a four-letter...

In a small town in East Texas, three generations of a family--the result of an unmarried union between cotton tycoon Mary Toliver and timber magnate Percy Warwick--leads to decades of deceit, tragedies, and secrets throughout most of the twentieth century.

Texas grandmother Biggie Weatherford and her ten-year-old grandson J.R. are on the case when the town's new undertaker, Monk Carter, is found dead with his ribs smashed as if he had been hugged by a grizzly bear.

Carlisle Wainwright Cushing, inspired to become a attorney by her mother whose multiple marriages alone could keep Carlisle in business, returns home to Texas to handle her mom's latest divorce only to find herself facing her ex-beau Jack Blair in court, and to make matters worse, she is roped into reviving the family-sponsored hundredth annual debutante ball, the very event that prompted her to move to Boston years earlier.

After watching her elderly neighbor rob a bank, bounty hunter Dixie Flannigan tries to discover what is causing the area's senior citizens to become dangerous criminals.

Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes starts looking for a connection and a killer when his usually peaceful domain is disrupted by two mysterious deaths in two weeks.

A man flees to Mexico from West Texas after shooting a sheriff in a dispute over a horse and finds himself pursued by manhunters. Inspired by the story of Gregorio Cortez, a Mexican fugitive who was tracked for ten days and hundreds of miles before being captured in 1901.

Follows a Texas family in the 1800s through Civil War battles, buffalo hunts, barroom shootouts, Indian wars, blizzards, and trail drives.

Nancy Bell's best-selling Biggie series combines Texas small-town humor with tantalizing mysteries. As J.R., Biggie Weatherford's 12-year-old grandson, recounts Biggie's uncanny ability to solve the peskiest cases, his observations are spiced with his wry adolescent view of grownups. A trip to a nearby town introduces J.R. to a ghost and presents Biggie with a perplexing local murder.