Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Part 1: El Paso and West Texas
  • Nevada Barr, Track of the Cat
  • Jim Sanderson, Camino del Rio
  • Nancy Herndon, Time Bombs
  • James Crumley, Bordersnakes
  • Allana Martin, Death of a Healing Woman
  • Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me
• Part 2: Austin and the Hill Country
  • Steven Saylor, A Twist at the End
  • Jesse Sublett, The Rock Critic Murders
  • Ben Rehder, Buck Fever
  • Susan Wittig Albert, Rosemary Remembered
  • Kinky Friedman, Armadillos and Old Lace
• Part 3: Houston and the Gulf Coast
  • David L. Lindsey, Heat from Another Sun
  • Neal Barrett, Jr., Interstate Dreams
  • Ken Grissom, Drowned Man's Key
  • Gaylord Dold, Bay of Sorrows
• Part 4: Dallas, Fort Worth, and the Panhandle
  • Doug J. Swanson, Umbrella Man
  • A. W. Gray, Prime Suspect
  • D. R. Meredith, The Sheriff and the Panhandle Murders
• Part 5: East Texas
  • Joe R. Lansdale, The Two-Bear Mambo
  • Walter Mosley, Gone Fishin'
  • Susan Rogers Cooper, Funny as a Dead Relative
• Part 6: San Antonio and South Texas
  • Carolyn Hart, Death on the River Walk
  • Rick Riordan, The Last King of Texas
  • J. S. Borthwick, The Case of the Hook-billed Kites
  • Rolando Hinojosa, Partners in Crime
• Part 7: Small Town Texas
  • Bill Crider, Winning Can Be Murder
  • Paula Boyd, Hot Enough to Kill
  • Jeff Abbott, Do Unto Others
  • Clay Reynolds, Agatite
• Part 8: End of the Road
  • Mary Willis Walker, The Red Scream

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An engaging collection of crime fiction in which Texas is as much a character as a setting

About the Author

Bill Cunningham is a San Marcos, Texas, public relations consultant and former Chairman of the Texas State University System Board of Regents.

Steven L. Davis is the Assistant Curator of the Southwestern Writers Collection Texas State University-San Marcos.

Rollo K. Newsom is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Folklore Emeritus at Texas State University-San Marcos.