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Ben Rehder
Full Series List in Order
A Blanco County Texas Novel
1 - Buck Fever (Sep-2002)2 - Bone Dry (Sep-2003)
3 - Flat Crazy (Sep-2004)
4 - Guilt Trip (Sep-2005)
5 - Gun Shy (May-2007)
6 - Holy Moly (May-2008)
7 - Hog Heaven (Jul-2013)
8 - Stag Party (Dec-2014)
9 - Bum Steer (Jul-2015)
9.5 - Mind Game (Aug-2015)
10 - Point Taken (Jul-2016)
11 - Last Laugh (Oct-2017)
12 - Lefty Loosey (Nov-2018)
A Roy Ballard Mystery
1 - Gone The Next (Sep-2012)2 - Get Busy Dying (Mar-2014)
3 - If I Had a Nickel (Dec-2015)
4 - Now You See Him (Feb-2017)
Book List in Order: 21 titles
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Buck Fever
- Sep-2002
- / Police Procedural
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Blanco County, Texas. It's one week before the start of deer hunting season, and everyone in town has come down with a case of...Buck Fever. The fury begins with Red O'Brien and Billy Don Craddock, two drunken poachers who fire a shot in the d...
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Flat Crazy
- Sep-2004
- / Law Enforcement
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MYSTERIOUS CREATURE... Being the final day of deer season, Blanco County game warden John Marlin shouldn't have any more on his mind than working his way through a cold six-pack. That's his plan until a screaming, half-naked immigrant named Jorge co...
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Guilt Trip
- Sep-2005
- / Law Enforcement
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Turkey season is in progress, former juvenile delinquent Lucas Burnett's house just exploded, and a Ford Explorer is floating downstream after a gullywasher. It's another ordinary day in Blanco County, Texas... Game warden John Marlin hopes that L...
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The Chicken Hanger
- Mar-2012
- / General Fiction
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Ricky Delgado works as a chicken hanger at the poultry plant in Rugoso, Texas, a small border town just thirty miles south of Laredo. His quiet, illegal lifestyle is disrupted when he learns that his brother Tomás has been shot and injured sho...
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The Driving Lesson
- May-2012
- / General Fiction
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From Edgar Award-nominated author Ben Rehder:
Charlie Dunbar had big plans for the summer break, but becoming a fugitive was nowhere on the list. Even more unexpected, his partner in crime is his own ailing grandfather. Now they're on the run,... -
Gone The Next
- Sep-2012
- / General Fiction
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Meet Roy Ballard, freelance videographer with a knack for catching insurance cheats. He's working a routine case, complete with hours of tedious surveillance, when he sees something that shakes him to the core. There, with the subject, is a little bl...
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Hog Heaven
- Jul-2013
- / Mystery
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After a high-school football star dies in a late-night motorcycle collision with a wild pig, the boy’s wealthy father comes up with a creative scheme to rid Blanco County of the feral pests: He tattoos the ear of one particular pig, then offers a $...
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Get Busy Dying
- Mar-2014
- / Mystery
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Everyone thinks Boz Gentry died in a fiery traffic accident, but Roy Ballard and Mia Madison aren’t convinced. As legal videographers, it’s their job to provide evidence of insurance fraud -- and the more they dig into the Gentry case, the more t...
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Stag Party
- Dec-2014
- / Police Procedural
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When the 102-year-old inventor of an amazing new hunting product is murdered, the clues point toward the Endicotts, a controversial reality-show family. Did one of the members do something desperate to claim the invention as their own and boost their...
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If I Had a Nickel
- Dec-2015
- / Mystery
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Alex Dunn owned one of the most valuable collections of hobo nickels in the world, and it appears somebody killed him for it. Now Roy Ballard and Mia Madison are hired by the insurance company to track the collection down, which means they might reve...
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Point Taken
- Jul-2016
- / Mystery
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Sean Hudson thought nothing of hopping a fence to dig illegally for Native American arrowheads, spear points, and other artifacts. Did his thieving, trespassing ways get him killed? How else to explain the small pickaxe that was found sunk deep into ...
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Now You See Him
- Feb-2017
- / Private Investigator
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Jeremy Sawyer was having a great time on a party barge on Lake Travis, and then he was suddenly nowhere to be found. Had he jumped? Fallen off? Been pushed? Roy Ballard -- an expert in catching insurance cheats -- intends to find out. After all, Jere...
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Last Laugh
- Oct-2017
- / Mystery
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When a Blanco County hog hunter goes missing after a fight with his girlfriend, it’s not a laughing matter -- even when one of today’s hottest blue-collar comedians is a suspect. Game warden John Marlin joins forces with the sheriff’s departmen...
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A Tooth For A Tooth
- May-2018
- / Law Enforcement
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Lennox Armbruster was struck by a speeding vehicle -- but was it an accident or an insurance scam gone wrong? Roy Ballard is hired to find out, and he soon learns there’s a third possibility: attempted murder. Joe Jankowski, the man who hit Armbrus...
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Lefty Loosey
- Nov-2018
- / Police Procedural
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Deke Gilbert was a legend on the central Texas demolition derby circuit, until a suspicious late-night crash ended his life. Unfortunately, Deke left behind a teenage daughter, Christie, who now has nowhere to go. That’s when good ol’ boys Red Oâ...
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Shake And Bake
- Jul-2019
- / Mystery
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Does Caleb Dimmick really work at his father's motorcycle dealership, or does he simply ride the payroll, thereby giving his dad a nice tax break? Roy Ballard, a legal videographer specializing in insurance fraud, is hired to find out. After just a f...
