Samuel Craddock's small-town Texas

A board dedicated to the new Samuel Craddock mystery series.
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During THE LAST DEATH OF JACK HARBIN, Samuel Craddock often looks at his Wolf Kahn painting while reflecting on events.
A Killing at Cotton Hill by Terry Shames
The bolo: the official neckwear of the state of Texas. Read more about it at the Clothes in Books blog!
One of Samuel Craddock's Herefords finally graces the cover of one of these mystery novels by Terry Shames!
Author Terry Shames signs A Deadly Affair at Bobtail Ridge for librarians at ALA
Author Terry Shames signs A Deadly Affair at Bobtail Ridge for librarians at ALA
“There may be no protagonist in our genre today as decently compelling as Samuel Craddock. And there may be no better chronicler of the character and complexity of small-town America than Terry Shames. With Dead Broke in Jarrett Creek, she absolutely won my heart. Give her a chance, and I guarantee she’ll stake a claim to yours as well.” —WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER, author of Ordinary Grace
Where Fiction Is a Crime - A Killing At Cotton Hill
The chief of police of Jarrett Creek, Texas, doubles as the town drunk. So when Dora Lee Parjeter is murdered, her old friend and former police chief Samuel Craddock steps in. He discovers that a lot of people had it in for Dora Lee. "Terry Shames does small-town Texas crime right.... Former chief of police Samuel Craddock is a man readers are going to love, and they'll want to visit him and Jarrett Creek, Texas, often," says Bill Crider, author of the Sheriff Dan Rhodes series.
Herd and seen: Cows give up farm life in favor of fashionable Garment District
Melinda Buie is one of Samuel Craddock's favorite new artists.
Herd and seen: Cows give up farm life in favor of fashionable Garment District
In A Killing at Cotton Hill Samuel bought a Melinda Buie painting. It was also mentioned in The Last Death of jack Harbin.
Terry Shames at Bouchercon - WINNER of the 2014 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery for A KILLING AT COTTON HILL!
Even Sparky loves DEAD BROKE AT JARRETT CREEK, the 3rd Samuel Craddock Mystery.
Where Fiction Is a Crime - The Last Death of Jack Harbin
Just before the outbreak of the Gulf War, two eighteen-year-old football stars and best friends from Jarrett Creek, Texas signed up for the army. But Woody Patterson was rejected and stayed home to marry the girl they both loved, while Jack Harbin came back from the war badly damaged. The men haven't spoken since. Just as they are about to reconcile, Jack is brutally murdered.