A note on the windshield of defense lawyer AJ Garrison's car asks who killed Dr. Taylor? It's a cold case, and Garrison takes it on because Taylor was her family's doctor and the community's go-to man. She finds herself walking into the inner world of county politics and government where no one is as Garrison believes them to be. Concurrent with her investigation, she's attempting to settle the estate of a friend killed in a one-car crash, a job that has her snatching gold coins from a fish tank seeded with piranhas and jockeying for big settlements in the world of thoroughbred horse farms.
A family murdered for no apparent reason. The worst of the deaths in that isolated ranch house for James Early are those of the children, two of them twin boys less than a year old. No, not the worst. Before his investigation is over, a friend will be killed while helping Early, and Early will see it as his fault, that he was responsible. Peace, if there is to be any for James Early, must come from a new acquaintance no one believes exists.
Before there was Newtown and Shady Hook Elementary. . . Before there was Columbine. . . There was Morgantown. Morgantown Consolidated High School. 1969. A student takes a gun to school and murders one of his teachers in front of a classroom filled with students. Criminal defense lawyer A.J. Garrison finds herself appointed to defend the boy. It's her first capital murder trial, and she's going to lose. No doubt about it. The only real question for Garrison is can she save her client from the electric chair?
Pappy Brown, at age 65, finds himself going to college, a freshman no less. His is a story of life changes, wild times on Greek Row, and late romance, with a dash of Christmas adventure thrown in. For a Christmas gift, Pappy–the last good man–must find the father of a boy whom he has befriended, the father, a Vietnam vet running from his demons.If you've been in the military, Pappy's search for Pooch will have you clutching your heart.
John Hepsebah Lawless, in “The Santa Train”, wants to build a free hospital in the Smoky Mountains for people suffering from tuberculosis. It's 1936, the depth of the Depression, and he needs money to do it.The people who can supply the money first want a favor. They want Lawless, a circuit-riding preacher, to take Christmas – everything from hams to quilts – to the needy people of the mountains on the first Santa Train, set to depart on Christmas Eve day on The Little River Railroad.In “Holly and Mistletoe”, a recently divorced state trooper with four dollars in his pocket discovers he can still make Christmas something special.And in “Bump and The Stranger”, a garageman finds he's far from alone on Christmas Eve. First there a stranger who walks into Bump Asher's gas station, then a young couple trying to get to the hospital in a broken-down car, next a deputy who's shot in Bump's driveway, followed by the man who shot the deputy who now wants to rob Bump.Three stories for the season, stories that will both surprise you and warm your heart.
The killing of a former Iraqi interpreter sets his American sponsor on a search for the assassin, a search that involves a torch job of the Iraqi's house, a race across open water on a snowmobile, and a shoot-out in the state capitol. Wisconsin winters are murder" --
All James Early wanted to do on Christmas Eve was to get home to a warm fire, a hot supper, and an evening with his baby daughter. But there it was, a car in the ditch and a young family stranded. He had to help.How “A Night for Miracles,” the first story in this Christmas collection, ends at a Nativity scene in a little country church will amaze you.Five stories here, every one will have you feeling that this is indeed a special time of the year.
What did you do for your 80th birthday? You haven't got there yet? Writer Jerry Peterson has. He had a party. James Early came at the age of 102, the second oldest man in Kansas. He also put in an appearance when he was much younger. The Fish came, a great little detective you've met before. And Tubby Smith. He's new to you, coming from his favorite hangout, The Nevermind Tap. And Clint Boone, also new to you, a foreign correspondent with the International News Service. An INS competitor came, Walter Cronkite, as did Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, Lowell Thomas, Richard Nixon, and one-time U.S. Treasury Secretary William Simon. You'll meet them all and many more in this new anthology, Jerry's stories-83 in total-his gift to you on his 80th birthday.
Kansas sheriff James Early works to solve the murder of a teacher and pursues a bank robber, as his personal life unravels with his wife sinking into depression and risking the life of his unborn child.
The long-awaited prequel to the bestseller FOURTH GRADE RATSGeorge, aka "Suds," has just entered third grade, and he's heard the rhyme about "first grade babies/second grade cats/third grade angels/fourth grade rats," but what does this mean for his school year? It means that his teacher, Mrs. Simms, will hold a competition every month to see which student deserves to be awarded "the halo" - which student is best-behaved, kindest to others, and, in short, perfect. Suds is determined to be the first to earn the halo, but he's finding the challenge of always being good to be more stressful than he had anticipated. Does he have to be good even outside of school? (Does he have to be nice to his annoying little sister?) And if Mrs. Simms doesn't actually see him doing a good deed, does it even count?A warm, funny return to elementary school from master storyteller Spinelli.
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