The Blue Creek Novels
Tales of Obsession featuring Richard Carter
Chronological List
Bonne Femme (Suspense)
Can the trust that Richard Carter betrayed
ever be regained? Must he lose the woman he loves in order to save her? Is what he thinks is happening true, or
is only delusion? Can Jill Belbenoit believe him when he says he only wants to keep her from harm, or is she only the
prize over which two dangerous men are competing?
Cold
Tears (Mystery/Suspense)
Why is Richard Carter the only one in James Mill who cares about Molly's missing baby? Is this the squalid story the
local police insist on believing, or the horrible tragedy that the distraught mother says it is? Is Richard her "godsend"?
Or is she his? Canaan Camp (Suspense)
What better place for a psychopath to hide from a manhunt than in an isolated and self-contained religious commune?
Will Bobby Lee Paget's violent forays lead Hawthorn County Deputy Richard Carter to discover his hiding place, or will they
provide him means to commit mass murder?
Secret Song (Mystery)
A murdered girl's shallow grave is discovered simultaneously with the return of one of her killers' return to Blue Creek.
Henry Porter, a case of arrested social development if ever there was one, becomes the target of persecution and violence
for his part in the long ago crime. Is a "debt to society" ever really paid? Or will Richard discover
that there is something else going on? The Kingsnake (Mystery/Suspense)
Why is the sniper who has been picking off
low-level drug abusers now setting his sights on memebers of the Ozark Foothills Drug Taskforce? Can Richard Carter
use the help of murdered friend's computer expert to track down the killer before more blood is shed? Call Her "Sabine" (Mystery/Suspense)
Aren't two suspicious drownings and the disappearance of a co-ed jogger within the space of two weeks too much violence for
a sleepy rural community to be coincidence? Will Richard Carter find Charlie before "Roman" turns her into
what he wants her to become? Devilry
(Mystery)
Why has
a respected banker, his daugter, and a "rainbow person" each been murdered in the woods of Hawthorn County?
What do the deaths have to do with Civil War atrocities and family lore handed down from father to son? Is Richard Carter
dealing with separate crimes? Or are they connected?
Road Shrines (Mystery/Suspense)
What better place to hide a body than in a rural cemetery? What better way to remember someone than to erect a roadside
cross? After a local girl goes missing, it is discovered that a serial killer someone has been burying his victims
in a rural cemetery and erecting mementos for himself on the roadsides of Hawthorn County. Can Richard find anything
to link the victims in order to pinpoint the killer before he kills again? Cold
Fury (Mystery/Suspense)
What does murder by exposure have to do with a long forgotten double homicide and the disappearance of Richard Carter's friend,
deputy Ron Guidry? Do the federal authorities who are supposed to be aiding him have an agenda so different from his
that it will be too late to prevent Ron's death?
The
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