Nancy Bell
Author
Series
Biggie Weatherford mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Biggie Weatherford, the Miss Marple of Job's Crossing, Texas, is back in this sequel to best-selling author Nancy Bell's hilarious Biggie and the Poisoned Politician (S1085). This time around, Biggie tries to discover who killed the mortician. Shenanigans are afoot in Job's Crossing. When the three-inch heel breaks off gay police deputy Butch Jenkins' cowboy boot, thief Cooter McNutt escapes-until Aunt Vita straightarms Cooter and sits on him. Meanwhile,...
Author
Series
Biggie Weatherford mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Nancy Bell adds to a delightful Lone Star series that began with a People Pick of the Week. A victim of foul play, Firman Birdsong spends the Grand Opening of the Birdsong brothers' chicken restaurant dead under a table-with his gravy-covered, parsley-garnished body and his tomato-stuffed mouth. Biggie and her 10-year-old grandson JR investigate the murder. But as the suspect list swells, JR believes Biggie cares more about detecting...
Author
Series
Biggie Weatherford mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Biggie Weatherford, an eccentric and wealthy grandmother from the tiny East Texas town of Job's Crossing, takes on city hall to halt a proposed garbage dump next to her ancestral graveyard, only to turn detective to solve the poisoning murder of the local mayor.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Author Nancy Bell's popular Biggie series has entertained countless fans as Biggie and her observant grandson J.R. solve enthralling mysteries in their down home town of Jobs Crossing, Texas. Luther Abernathy has a bad habit of opening everyone's mail and sharing their most intimate secrets with anyone who will listen. So it's no surprise J.R. finds him murdered one day. Time for Biggie to offer her sleuthing abilities in the investigation.
Author
Series
Judge Jackson Crain mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Author Nancy Bell serves up riveting small-town murder mysteries-Lone Star style. Joe Junior, the barber of Post Oak, Texas, has been murdered. And though he was beloved around town, there are no less than three primary suspects. Judge Crain has the final word when it comes to laying down the law in PostOak, but this time he's having a dandy of a hard time figuring out where to lay it.
Author
Series
Biggie Weatherford mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The third book in this cozy mystery series, Paint the Town Dead displays all the wry humor fans of Judge Jackson Crain have come to expect. When local real-estate mogul Tom Delgado is found murdered in his office, the police suspect his wife, Dovie. She had plenty of motive after finding out Tom changed his will to include another woman, but Jackson's gut tells him the newfound widow is innocent.
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
A memoir of one family's life after adopting a rescued macaw, a one-footed, expletive-loving bird named Sarah that quickly takes over the house, the family, and the dog, and the misadventures they experienced before teaching the neglected bird how to fly.