Red River mysteries
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[2011]
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English
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In 1964, bald-headed, pot-bellied Ned Parker is a farmer and part-time constable in Center Springs, Texas. Summoned to a cornfield one hot morning to examine the remains of a tortured bird dog, Ned realizes there is a dark presence in their quiet community. Ned is usually confident handling domestic disputes, moonshiners, and drunks, but when it comes to animal atrocities--and murder--the investigation spins beyond his abilities. While Ned joins up...
2) Burrows
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Retired constable Ned Parker plans to live a quiet life as a cotton farmer. But a phone call leads him to a body in the Red River and into the investigation headed by his nephew, Vietnam vet and newly elected constable Cody Parker. The two work to head off a multi-state killing spree. Cody and Deputy John Washington follow a lead to the long-abandoned Cotton Exchange which is riddled with booby-trapped passageways and dark burrows. Unfortunately,...
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[2013]
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English
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In 1965 Constable Cody Parker's frightening dreams of gathering storm clouds for the tight-knit Parker family from Center Springs, Texas, proved accurate. Cody is ambushed and nearly killed on a lonely country road during an unusually heavy snowfall. With that attack, the locals fear that a disturbed murderer "the Skinner" has returned to their community. While his nephew recovers, Constable Ned Parker struggles to connect a seemingly unrelated series...
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2014.
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In October of 1967, the Summer of Love is history, rock and roll is dark and revolutionary, and people in the small east Texas community of Center Springs simply want to live their lives as quietly as possible. But a handsome darkness in the form of Las Vegas gangster Anthony Agrioli has left the business to hide out in their tiny backwater settlement with his blond bombshell girlfriend. Two years earlier, Agrioli met newlyweds Cody and Norma Faye...
5) Dark places
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[2015]
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English
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While Constable Ned Parker tries to track down fourteen-year-old Pepper and her friend Cael Westlake, who've run away to California, Sheriff Cody Parker and Deputy Anna Sloan investigate a robbery gone awry that resulted in two deaths.
6) Unraveled
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2016.
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Constable Ned Parker has his hands full, between raising his grandchildren, Pepper and Top, and trying to keep the peace in the rural community of Center Springs, Tex. When a car runs off the bridge over Lake Lamar Dam killing Frank Clay, the white mayor, and his black secretary, Maggie Mayfield, local speculation runs rampant. Were they having an affair? Could it have been foul play? If so, who was the target: Frank or Maggie? The incident rekindles...
7)
Gold dust , Red River mysteries volume 7
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8) Laying bones
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[2021]
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English
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"It's January, 1969, in the small rural community of Center Springs, Texas. Constable Ned Parker is looking into the seemingly accidental death of his nephew R.B., who was found in his overturned pickup near Sanders Creek bridge. Eventually, the investigation leads Parker back to the Starlite Club, a dangerous honky-tonk recently constructed in a no-man's land on the Lone Star side of the Red River. Although Ned's investigation uncovers suspicious...