Russ Hall

Mysteries Squared

The 1980s are rolling merrily along and Esbeth Walters’s friends often tell her she’s a retired school teacher in her 70s and shouldn’t be messing around solving crimes. She rather enjoys helping out her local law enforcement, particularly when she’s right more often than they are, and Esbeth wouldn’t have been involved at all if she hadn’t found an arm in that bed of Coreopsis. She didn’t know it ...

Category Mystery-Cozy
Making it Rain in Texas

Once again, Al Quinn’s wish to lead a quiet life as a retired sheriff’s department detective gets interrupted. This time, a female con artist has ripped off a charity drive his brother, Maury, and his sister-in-law, Bonnie, are heading.

Sheriff Clayton also wants a favor. He asks Al to look into a report of a chupacabra, a mythological Texas beast that sucks the blood from goats. The ta ...

Category Mystery-Crime
Darkest Corners of Texas

 

Austin's urban sprawl is crowding in on Al Quinns once wilderness lakefront house. Yet he is tugged away from his cozy retirement, his quirky housemates, and even his promise to marry Fergie by a string of seemingly petty crimes that are starting to seem organized.
Houses may be springing up around where he and his family live, but Al knows from his years as a sheriffs depar ...

Love and Pirates

Hardy Hanlon’s big dream is to sail a boat on the high seas one day. Freshly graduated from college, he accidentally stows away on a yacht being transported across America on the back of a truck bed and gets his wish…sort of. It’s not the Spanish Main, but it’s a pirate’s life for him as he views the country with fresh, eager eyes through portholes on the boat’s way to San Diego. Ditching his coll ...

Category Action-Adventure
Kiss and Kill in Texas

Al Quinn turns down a musician friend’s request to stay at Al’s home, which is now filled with his recent bride, Fergie, his brother’s, wife and child, and a dog. Al’s refusal has consequences that lead to the musician being murdered. The trail to make things right takes Al and his family down to the Texas coast, where they face their most dangerous mission. The small Gulf town of Port Dexter is a ...

Category Mystery-Crime
Never Look Back in Texas

When Al agrees to help Fergie find the missing son of one of their long-ago high school classmates, they head off to a ranch in the valley, where some wide open spaces still remain in Southeast Texas. He is okay with following Fergie’s lead in the case, for a change, and even with riding horses. But what he doesn’t expect is for the trail of the missing son to lead them into the path of one of Ame ...