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Focus Fiction: Texas Fiction - Dallas

Allen, Tricia: Texas Weather [MYSTERY ALLEN]

Mystery; Assistant Dallas City District Attorney prosecutes a killer in 1947.

Abshire, Richard: The Dallas Deception [MYSTERY ABSHIRE]

Mystery; Hired to find and retrieve a video tape that depicts a sex act between a friend's wealthy lover's underage daughter and a man, Jack Kyle follows his leads into the dark corners of the girl's family.

Abshire, Richard: Turnaround Jack [MYSTERY ABSHIRE]

Mystery; Hired by businessman Guy Borodin to find out if his wife is cheating on him, Dallas P.I. Jack Kyle is immediately suspicious when he calls on the client & finds a naked woman in the client's pool—supposedly his niece. From there Kyle gets involved in an international smuggling conspiracy in which it is not easy to tell who the players are.

Bean, Frederic: Eden [FICTION BEAN]

The Kings are bound together by a hatred as vast as their oil-rich Texas ranch & the purse strings held by the cold clan matriarch. So when one of the five children is murdered everyone has a motive and no one has an alibi.

Bernhardt, William: Double Jeopardy [FICTION BERNHARDT]

Legal thriller; Al Moroconi has been hauled in on the charge of orchestrating a monstrous crime against a young woman. The first defense attorney on the case disappears under highly suspicious circumstances. Travis Byrne, a smart Dallas cop who decided in mid-career to trade his badge for a law degree, is appointed by a federal judge to act in Moroconi’s defense. Then Moroconi shoots his way out of court custody & Travis becomes ensnared in a web of corruption & betrayal. Running for his life Travis comes to the realization that the charge against Moroconi is just a cover for something much bigger.

Brooks, Elston: The Man Who Ruined Football [FICTION BROOKS]

Vic Waller, a middle-aged insurance man, begins a second career with the Dallas cowboys as a place-kicker who never misses.

Brown, Parry: The Shirt Off His Back [FICTION BROWN]

After 11 years Catherine has returned demanding joint custody of Terry’s daughters.

Brown, Sandra: The Thrill Of Victory [FICTION BROWN]

Romance; Finding everything she has worked for in jeopardy and her entire life hanging in the balance of a decision that she has only two weeks to make, Stevie Corbett puts her fate into the hands of journalist Judd Mackie.

Bunkley, Anita: Mirrored Life [FICTION BUNKLEY]

After serving 5 years in prison, Sara Jane is determined to start a new life, and, armed with a new identity, takes a job in a ritzy Dallas salon where her dreams begin to come true, but her brutal past threatens to shatter her new existence.

Cutrer, William: False Positive [FICTION CUTRER]

Christian pro-life thriller; Second-year medical resident Julien "Red" Richison becomes suspicious about the medical practices of a nearby abortion clinic after a woman is rushed to the emergency room suffering from massive blood loss.

Field, Frank: To Understand All [SCIENCE FICTION FIELD]

Science Fiction; William Blake, pre-med student, accidentally discovers a life force that will save civilization.

Fisher, R. Darryl: The Broker [FICTION FISHER]

A medical thriller about the black market in transplant organs featuring Dr. Cassy Baldwin, a young heart surgeon and divorced mother.

Fitzpatrick, Flo: Ghost Of A Chance [PBRACK ROMANCE]

Romance; While choreographing the new musical—Bad Business on the Brazos—Kiely Davlin, delighted with the perk of free Tex-Mex food, encounters the ghost of an actor whose matchmaking attempts lead her into the arms of Rafe Montez, the devastatingly sexy star of the show.

Gent, Peter: North Dallas After 40 [FICTION GENT]

Sequel to North Dallas Forty. It's the 20th anniversary of North Dallas's first championship and the entire team is returning to the site of their greatest glory. The players have all gone on to successful lives after football and are faced with the problems that come with modern times: cocaine & huge money, politics, old age, conglomerates, ex-wives and current flames. They're back, but none of them seem too sure they weren't better off in the old days.

Gent, Peter: North Dallas Forty [FICTION GENT]

A fictional account of 8 harrowing days in the life of a professional football player. Peter Gent, a former Dallas Cowboy, tells the devastating truth about the world of a pro ballplayer—a world of drugs, pain, sex and incredible savagery. At the same time there is a tender, tragic love affair and an infusion of humor in this story.

Gray, A. W.: Bino [MYSTERY GRAY]

Mystery; 1st in Bino Phillips series. Bino is a street-smart Dallas lawyer and an albino. Bino's client—a suspect in a recent political murder—is killed by his two partners. Then the killers focus on Bino, feeling he may have gleaned some information from their late partner. He hasn't, but figures he had better find out what's going on, if only to save his own skin.

Gray, A. W.: Bino's Blues [MYSTERY GRAY]

Mystery; 4th in Bino Phillips series. Defending a flashy, big-time Houston lawyer who is accused of killing his wife, Bino Phillips becomes involved with a sultry blues singer, a vindictive judge, and a hired killer with a cleanliness fetish.

Gray, A. W.: Killings [MYSTERY GRAY]

Mystery; 3rd in Bino Phillips series. Bino becomes entangled in a Texas-sized mess when his two star witnesses are murdered, vampire-style, by a vicious serial killer.

Gray, A. W.: In Defense Of Judges [MYSTERY GRAY]

Mystery; 2nd in Bino Phillips series. Bino is hired by Judge Burns who is being manipulated in the news by U.S. District Attorney Marvin Goldman. Goldman is trying to ruin the judge through his daughter Ann who is hooked on gambling with daddy's money.

Gray, A. W.: The Man Offside [MYSTERY GRAY]

Mystery; After serving time for selling drugs, former Dallas Cowboy Rick Bannion is released only to find himself right back in the middle of another drug deal. When one of his friends is murdered he needs to find the killer before he is sent back to prison.

Gray, A. W.: Shares [MYSTERY GRAY]

Mystery; A former Dallas police officer matches wits with an attractive ex-convict, who tries to entrap him in a kidnapping plot through which she hopes to beat the system.

Green, Chloe: Designed To Die [MYSTERY GREEN]

Mystery; 2nd in Dallas O’Connor series. Dallas must try to discover who is turning a big-budget photo shoot into a venue for murder, and faces suspects ranging from bickering designers to a lingerie model.

Green, Chloe: Going Out In Style [MYSTERY GREEN]

Mystery; 1st in Dallas O’Connor series. Fashion stylist Dallas O'Connor turns sleuth to investigate the brutal killing of a beautiful young model, when she and Cuban artist Raul Domingo become prime suspects in the crime.

Greene, A. C.: The Highland Park Woman [FICTION GREENE]

short stories about Dallas and the complex men and women living there in the 1980s.

Griffith, Patricia Browning: The World Around Midnight [FICTION GRIFFITH]

Dinah Reynolds is uprooted from her comfortable life in Dallas when her father dies and she must take over the newspaper in her hometown of Midnight. The newspaper has been her father's chief weapon against the onslaught of urban values & the encroaching Metroplex of Dallas-Fort Worth. In Midnight, Dinah falls back into a life she'd hoped to leave behind, becoming enmeshed again in the turmoil of the city—and the lives of her mother, grandmother, & daughter-in-law. When an airplane carrying a celebrated religious pop singer crashes in Midnight the town is thrust into the tumult of the national media, & Dinah's future, complete with a resurfaced love, is forever changed.

Hardy, Robin: Streiker The Killdeer [FICTION HARDY]

2nd in Streiker saga. Fletcher takes his bride to Hawaii to meet his family, become acquainted with his son, and attend his mother’s funeral.

Hardy, Robin: Streiker's Bride [FICTION HARDY]

1st in Streiker saga. What would you do if you received the offer of a lifetime—marriage to a billionaire—with one catch: you had to make up your mind without ever seeing him? When lowly bank teller Adair Weiss receives such an offer from reclusive philanthropist Fletcher Streiker, she is dumbfounded and disbelieving: Rejecting his offer would mean giving up her most cherished dreams. But accepting it would change her life in ways she never guessed.

Hardy, Robin: Streiker's Morning Sun [FICTION HARDY]

3rd in Streiker saga; Streiker comes to the aid of a small town besieged by the mysterious Warfield Group, a sort of holding company of evil.

Harris, Charlaine: Living Dead In Dallas [MYSTERY HARRIS]

Mystery; 2nd in a Southern Vampire series; Cocktail waitress Sookie & her vampire boyfriend Bill come to Dallas to track a missing vampire.

Hayden, L. C.: Where Secrets Lie [FICTION HAYDEN]

At her mother’s deathbed, Lisa learns she was illegally adopted & becomes obsessed with finding her biological parents.

Hayden, L. C.: Who’s Susan? [FICTION HAYDEN]

The first 18 years of Susan’s life are a blank, but it doesn’t matter until someone takes her 4 year old son.

Hilz, Tammy: Finding Gold [FICTION HILZ]

Jackson Dermont is on the trail of a thief who will ruin his business & Rachel Gold is his number one suspect.

Ions, Edmund: Sherlock Holmes In Dallas [MYSTERY IONS]

Mystery; Holmes is commissioned by folks in Washington, D.C. to solve a crime involving the murder of a President. The trail takes him to Dallas among other places.

Lackey, Mercedes: Burning Water [SCIENCE FICTION LACKEY]

Fantasy; Investigating a series of brutal, ritualistic murders, Diana Tregarde, a paranormal investigator & witch, and Mark Valdez, a police detective & psychic, find themselves threatened by a cult intent upon completing an ancient ceremony that will release the powers of the ancient Aztec god Tezcatlipoca.

Lehrer, Kate: Confessions Of A Bigamist [FICTION LEHRER]

She already has two personas—one as Michelle Banyon, chic wife of a successful Manhattan lawyer, the other as Daisy Strait, popular women's magazine columnist, consultant and public speaker who specializes in streamlining lives and closets—when she meets Wilson. After literally knocking Wilson Collins off his feet (with her car) following a speaking engagement in Texas, Michelle surprises herself by falling in love. To Wilson, our heroine takes on a third persona (he calls her Mickey): sexual, feisty, needy, yet still fiercely independent. She also becomes a liar: Mickey can't bring herself to confess her true marital status. She gets into trouble when she tries to balance the competing demands of her long-term but often long-distance marriage to Steve and her more passionate relationship with Wilson in.

Lewin, Patricia: Blind Run [MYSTERY LEWIN]

Mystery; When his young son is murdered, Ethan Decker, a former "Hunter" who tracked down international fugitives for the U.S. government, goes into exile, until a former member of his team enlists his aid to protect two children caught in a deadly conspiracy.

Littledog, Pat: Afoot In A Field Of Men [FICTION LITTLEDOG]

Dallas stories.

Main, Gregg: Every Trace [FICTION MAIN]

Thriller about a husband, a wife, and 2 killers locked in a twisted match of hide & seek. Set in Dallas & Los Angeles.

Marlow, Terry: Target Blue [FICTION MARLOW]

Sergeant Bill Clark and Officer Randi Stoner work to solve the murders of a young woman and a dancer, and find themselves in the middle of a drug war, corruption, and blackmail.

Mcglothin, Victor: Every Sistah Wants It [FICTION MCGLOTHIN]

Octavia Longbow is a show producer at Hot 100, Dallas's top R&B radio station, and she wants what every sistah wants. Alphonzo, "The Radio Gigolo," would love to give it to her but she's holding out for I. Rome--a double-platinum superstar who's given her nothing but three years of hot loving and heartache. The last time I. Rome blew into town, he left with Octavia's purse and her self-respect. So when she meets drop-dead-gorgeous Legacy Childs after running him over with her car, she develops second thoughts about what love really means.

Mcglothin, Victor: What’s A Woman To Do? [FICTION MCGLOTHIN]

Three sisters harbor difficult secrets that compromise their close relationship.

Mckinley, Georgia: Follow The Running Grass [FICTION MCKINLEY]

Impressive novel about life in Dallas in the 1960s. It follows Delmon Goode, a liberal do-gooder and Civil Rights lawyer who returns to Dallas after an absence. His story is told against a background of Civil Rights disturbances, family history and recognition of his self-serving past.

Mills, Deanie Francis: Torch [PBRACK FICTION]

While investigating a series of arsons, journalist Jillian Ross is shocked to learn that the serial killer responsible for the fires has become obsessed with her.

Paxson, John: Elvis Live At Five [FICTION PAXSON]

When a Dallas TV station gives a virtual Elvis his own show the station goes to great lengths to control the viewers & keep the profits coming in.

Peterson, Tracie J.: Controlling Interests [FICTION PETERSON]

Explores the confusion and loneliness experienced by Denali Deveraux as she faces career success but a personal identity crisis when her only living relative—her grandfather—refuses to have contact with her even though he is her employer and legal guardian.

Ray, Francis: Break Every Rule [PBRACK ROMANCE]

Romance; Underneath her wealthy and glamorous facade, Dominique Falcon longs for a man who is not after her money and vows to date only men who are richer than she is. Fate intervenes and introduces her to Trent Jacob Masters, the opposite of everything she wants in a man, but everything she longs for in a lover.

Ray, Francis: I Know Who Holds Tomorrow [FICTION RAY]

Talk-show hostess Madison Reed struggles to come to terms with her feelings of betrayal and grief after her husband is fatally injured in a car accident after confessing his adultery and asking her to care for his and his mistress's baby daughter.

Ray, Francis: Someone To Love Me [PBRACK ROMANCE]

Romance; Reunited with a stranger from her past, a man who had given Michelle her first taste of passion, businesswoman Michelle Grant once again meets Brad Jamison, a hardened businessman without warmth or tenderness who does not remember her.

Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor: Trial By Fire [FICTION ROSENBERG]

Legal thriller; Dallas prosecutor Stella Cataloni persuades the Houston DA to reopen an old investigation into her parents' deaths in an arson fire, only to find herself the prime suspect and the target of the ruthless Houston prosecutor, an old boyfriend.

Sala, Sharon: Butterfly [PBRACK ROMANCE]

Romance; Tough police officer Ben English must protect China Brown, the only eyewitness to the murder of celebrity photographer Chaz Finelli. China is a fragile young woman who lost her unborn baby in the same attack and is threatened by the brutal killer who will do anything to protect his dark secrets from being revealed.

Seifert, Shirley: Destiny In Dallas [FICTION SEIFERT]

Beginning in 1858, the story of "the first capitalist of Dallas," Alexander Cockrell & his wife, Sarah. Based on fact.

Shapiro, Stanley: A Time To Remember [SCIENCE FICTION SHAPIRO]

Science Fiction; David Russell travels back in time to prevent the assassination of President Kennedy but is prevented from stopping Lee Harvey Oswald from shooting and is himself then arrested for Kennedy's murder.

Simons, Paullina: Eleven Hours [FICTION SIMONS]

On the eve of giving birth to her 3rd child, Didi Wood goes to a Dallas mall to shop & meet her husband for lunch, but a chance encounter changes everything and she never makes it to lunch.

Spencer, Camika: When All Hell Breaks Loose [FICTION SPENCER]

When Gregory Alston proposes to his girlfriend of 3 years, his Mom returns from France & his Holy Roller sister doesn’t approve of his fiancé. (1997)

Swanson, Doug: 96 Tears [MYSTERY SWANSON]

Mystery; 3rd in Jack Flippo series. Private eye Jack Flippo focuses on a deadly kidnapping plot that features a nouveau riche beauty, a lovable arsonist, and an ex-con named Fred Mertts.

Swanson, Doug: Big Town [MYSTERY SWANSON]

Mystery; 1st in Jack Flippo series. Jack, ex-Assistant District Attorney, now makes his living snooping for a small-time lawyer. Jack is assigned to tape a sexual encounter of motivational speaker Buddy George Jr. When he hears Buddy threaten his partner for the evening he jumps in to rescue her. Now he must protect her and try to keep himself from being implicated in her boyfriend's murder.

Swanson, Doug: Dream Boat [MYSTERY SWANSON]

Mystery; 2nd in Jack Flippo series. Jack is now a "recovering deadbeat" investigating an insurance scam with an attractive barkeep and facing jack-in-the-box corpses, an attack with an Elvis lamp, and exploding vehicles.

Swanson, Doug: Umbrella Man [MYSTERY SWANSON]

Mystery; 4th in Jack Flippo series. Jack gets drawn into the JFK assassination spiral when a few frames of black & white film are brought to him that may show a 2nd gunman.

Swindle, Howard: Doin’ Dirty [MYSTERY SWINDLE]

Mystery; 2nd in Jeb Quinlin series. Jeb & his partner Paul McCarren’s latest case involves the gruesome murder of an investigative reporter & takes them to the ranching country of Comanche Gap.

Swindle, Howard: Jitter Joint [MYSTERY SWINDLE]

Mystery; 1st in Jeb Quinlin series. Alcoholic Jeb Quinlin is forced into detox or he’ll lose his wife & his job as a homicide detective with Dallas PD, but he no sooner checks in than there is a murder at the clinic.

Taggart, Susan: Web On Intrigue [FICTION TAGGART]

Morgan Carruthers' investigation of her sister's death leads her to the Internet where she discovers sinister powers and finds herself in danger as she gets closer to the truth.

Warren, Beverly C.: Stars Over Texas [FICTION WARREN]

Dani Wexford effortlessly interweaves her talent & business skills to outshine the competition in the interior decorating business as she strives to separate the 2 men desperately vying for her affections. Dani faces an agonizing choice—the enticing sensual allure she feels for Nick, or the magnetizing, primal abandonment she shares with Scott galloping on the open range.

Woolley, Bryan: November 22 [FICTION WOOLLEY]

A novel that takes place in the 24 hours following the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas. The characters in the novel form a cross-section of the city—cop, a wino, a newcomer, a preacher, etc.

Updated: 7/21/05

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