VJ Books presents Bill Crider

The winner of two Anthony Awards and an Edgar Award finalist, he is the author of the Professor Sally Good and the Carl Burns mysteries, the Sheriff Dan Rhodes series, the Truman Smith PI series, and wrote three books in the Stone: M.I.A. Hunter series under the pseudonym "Jack Buchanan." He is also the writer of several westerns and horror novels. His first Sheriff Dan Rhodes mystery, Too Late to Die, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel.

His website: www.billcrider.com

Murder Among the Owls Signed First Edition

All the Sad Words Signed First Edition

Bond with Death Signed First Edition

Wild Hog Murders Signed First Edition

Murder in the Air Signed First Edition

Red, White and Blue Murder Signed First Edition

Bill Crider Bibliography (Partial List)

Mystery Novels in the Sheriff Dan Rhodes Series

·         Too Late to Die, Walker, l986; Ivy, 1989 (Winner of the Anthony Award for Best First Novel)

·         Shotgun Saturday Night, Walker, l987; Ivy, 1989

·         Cursed to Death, Walker, l988; Ivy, 1990

·         Death on the Move, Walker, 1989; Ivy, 1990

·         Evil at the Root, St. Martin's, 1990; Ivy, 1991

·         Booked for a Hanging, St. Martin's, 1992

·         Murder Most Fowl, St. Martin's, 1994

·         Winning Can Be Murder, St. Martin's, 1996; Worldwide, 2000

·         Death by Accident, St. Martin's, 1998; Worldwide, 2000

·         A Ghost of a Chance, St Martins, July 2000; Worldwide, October 2001

·         A Romantic Way to Die, St. Martins, November 2001

·         Red, White, and Blue Murder, St. Martin's, October 2003

·         "The Empty Manger," Worldwide, November 2001.  (Not a novel, strictly speaking, but a novella included in the collection entitled Murder, Mayhem, and Mistletoe.)

·         A Mammoth Murder, St. Martin's, April 2006

·         Murder Among the O.W.L.S., St. Martin's, January 2007

·         Of All Sad Words, St. Martin's, February 2008

·         Murder in Four Parts, St. Martin's, February 2009

·         Murder in the Air, St. Martin's, August 2010

Mystery Novels in the Carl Burns Series

·         One Dead Dean, Walker, l988

·         Dying Voices, St. Martin's, 1989

·         . . . A Dangerous Thing, Walker, 1994; Worldwide, 1996

·         Dead Soldiers, Five Star, June 2004

Mystery Novels in the Truman Smith Series

·         Dead on the Island, Walker, 1991 (Nominated for the Shamus Award for Best First Private Eye Novel)

·         Gator Kill, Walker, 1992

·         When Old Men Die, Walker, 1994

·         The Prairie Chicken Kill, Walker, 1996

·         Murder Takes a Break, Walker, 1996

Mystery Novels in the Stanley Waters Series (Willard Scott, Co-Author):

·         Murder under Blue Skies, Dutton, 1998; Onyx, 1999

·         Murder in the Mist, Dutton, 1999; Onyx, 2000

Mystery Novels in the Sally Good Series

·         Murder Is An Art, St. Martin's, 1999

·         A Knife in the Back, St. Martin's, 2002

·         A Bond with Death, St. Martin's, 2004

Stand-Alone Mystery and Suspense Novels

·         Blood Marks, St. Martin's, 1991; Gold Medal, 1993

·         The Texas Capitol Murders, St. Martin's, 1992

·         Houston Homicide (with Clyde Wilson), Five Star, December 2007

House-Name Spy Fiction

·         The Coyote Connection (a Nick Carter book, in collaboration with Jack Davis), Charter, 1981

Western Novels

·         Ryan Rides Back, M. Evans, l988

·         Galveston Gunman, M. Evans, l989

·         A Time for Hanging, M. Evans, 1989

·         Medicine Show, M. Evans, 1990

·         Outrage at Blanco, Dell, 1999

·         Texas Vigilante, Dell, 1999

Horror Novels (all published under the pseudonym "Jack MacLane"):

·         Keepers of the Beast, Zebra, l988 (Horror; as Jack MacLane)

·         Goodnight, Moom, Zebra, l989 (Horror; as Jack MacLane)

·         Blood Dreams, Zebra, 1989 (Horror; as Jack MacLane)

·         Rest in Peace, Zebra, 1990 (Horror; as Jack MacLane)

·         Just before Dark, Zebra, 1990 (Horror; as Jack MacLane)