Samuel Craddock mysteries

"The shocking murder of a wounded veteran challenges the investigative skills of ex-chief Samuel Craddock. 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,...

"In a small town in East Central Texas, Samuel Craddock has learned to accept that his friend Jenny Sandstone's personal life is strictly secret. But when Jenny's dying mother tells Craddock that Jenny is in danger, he is confronted with a dilemma. He wants to respect Jenny's privacy, but he is haunted by the urgency in the dying woman's voice. Forced to confront the past, Jenny plunges into a downward spiral of rage and despair. Craddock knows that...

In this prequel, a young Samuel Craddock, as the newly elected chief of police in Jarrett Creek, must investigate the murder of five black residents and confront the ingrained prejudices in the small Texas town.

Chief Samuel Craddock's old friend Loretta Singletary has undergone a transformation, with a new hairstyle and modern clothes. He thinks nothing of it until she disappears. Only then does he find out that she has been flirting in an online dating site for small-town participants. When a woman from a nearby town who frequented the same site is murdered, Craddock becomes alarmed. Evidence shows that Loretta was lured to a meeting with a Mr. Hart, who...

Samuel Craddock is perplexed by a series of troubling events at Granger's Store where the shop owner's son, Mark Granger, is subject to threatening phone calls, an assault and the shop is set on fire. When a body of an outsider is found in the scorched shop, Craddock's investigation takes a deadly turn.