Clay Reynolds

Sandhill Chronicles

The Vigil (Dec-2001)
Threading the Needle (May-2003)
Monuments (Aug-2005)

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  Taking Stock
  

  • Jan-1989
  • / General Fiction
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  Franklin's Crossing
  

  • May-1992
  • / Historical
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  One of Texas's most celebrated novelists creates a story filled with all the passions and struggles of the people who forged a new country. Set in the vast grasslands of Texas just after the Civil War, Franklin's Crossing follows former slave and sea...

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  Rage
  

  • Jan-1994
  • / Suspense
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  Players
  

  • Jul-1997
  • / Suspense
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  When two bumbling thugs mistakenly kidnap would-be actress Vicki Sigel instead of mob player Eddy Lovell's daughter Barbara, they are plunged into a world of corruption, conspiracy, and murder--where they are pitted against each other. Reprint....

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  The Vigil
  

  • Dec-2001
  • / General Fiction
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  Sandhill Chronicles
  

  Fleeing Atlanta and an emotionally abusive marriage, Imogene McBride is heading west with her precocious, beautiful teenage daughter, Cora, when their car breaks down in the tiny North Texas town of Agatite. While her mother sits out its repair on a ...

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  Tentmaker
  

  • Dec-2002
  • / General Fiction
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  With the end of the Civil War, Gil Hooley heads West, hoping to build a new life for himself on the open frontier with the aid of his hand-crafted tents, but when his wagon breaks down in the middle of nowhere, a community begins to grow around him, ...

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  Threading the Needle
  

  • May-2003
  • / Suspense
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  Sandhill Chronicles
  

  In a chilling mixture of the nostalgic and the supernatural, Clay Reynolds adds to his Sandhill Chronicles this story of Faustian bargains, drag racing, old-time rock and roll, and a sister's love for a brother who dies tragically young. Sherry Littl...

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  Ars Poetica
  

  • Sep-2003
  • / Literary
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  In the caveat to this irreverent and hilarious satire, Clay Reynolds writes, “No poet writing today could be this lucky, this tragic, this infamous. Indeed, it wouldn’t be tolerated.” No, one will have to admit, it wouldn’t. Offered in the sa...

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  Agatite
  

  • Dec-2003
  • / Thriller
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  Roy Breedlove, a ne'er-do-well who spends his life in atonement for his past sins, lives in a quiet Texas town that suddenly changes when the body of a young woman is found hanging in the outhouse behind the local barbershop...

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  Monuments
  

  • Aug-2005
  • / Thriller
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  Sandhill Chronicles
  

  “This is Reynolds’s fourth novel about the dusty, hot, and sleepy West Texas town of Agatite, a faded stewpot of roiling passions, savage gossip, and crooked politics. . . . This warm and entertaining story is solidly written and vividly atmosphe...

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  Of Snakes and Sex and Playing in the Rain
  

  • Jan-2007
  • / General Fiction
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  These fourteen personal essays by one of Texas' most prolific authors are in turn humorous, literary, informative, nostalgic and all-around enjoyable to read. Written at various periods in his life, they invite us to come to know a man who not only r...

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  Sandhill County Lines
  

  • Nov-2007
  • / General Fiction
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  Sandhill County―Clay Reynolds’s Yoknapatawpha―is the setting for all nine stories in this collection. Reynolds sees his stories as reflective fragments, “the kind one notices when driving through a county in North Central Texas―old building...

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  Vox Populi
  

  • Oct-2013
  • / General Fiction
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  A nameless and sometimes hapless narrator moves through a series of casual encounters, mostly in the Southwest, with total strangers, average people going about day-to-day, often mundane activities, but taking time to reveal to him, unp...

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