Presidio, Texas is hard country and hardship duty for U.S. Border Patrol officer Dolph Martinez. When circling buzzards lead him to a corpse in Red Wing boots with a .22 bullet hole in an expensive haircut, Dolph realizes this is no ordinary norteïÂ...
"Jim Sanderson has created a terrific story around a memorably roguish central character. . . . Nevin's History is a good, good-humored story, and Jim Sanderson is a writer to watch." Dallas Morning News"This novel of Borderlands violence and romance...
Hard living, missed opportunities, and dogged persistence in the pursuit of impossible dreams are themes that help unite the linked stories in Jim Sanderson's fine new story cycle Faded Love. The characters Sanderson weaves in and out of these someti...
Nearer James Lee Burke than Joe Lansdale, Sanderson's Dolph's Team is part border-town mystery and part road trip, reminiscent of Lonesome Dove. Dolph's crew doesn't always follow the letter of the law in a world where pre-paid funerals are no joke. ...
In this series of linked short stories you will meet folk who inhabit the stark and wild countryside of West Texas, terrain that helps define them as well as the values that elicit many to behave in ways that will startle you. Here are only a few of ...
Roger Jackson is a grouch. He drinks too much with the wrong sorts of people. He dislikes where he lives -- Beaumont, Texas, a small, humid southeast Texas town caught between a marsh and an impenetrable forest, between racial and social strife, betw...
Fiction. Set between Austin and San Antonio, HILL COUNTRY PROPERTY traces the development of Roger Jackson from promising law student to private detective spying on cheating spouses. Of course, his own wife and in-laws are involved....
A wonderful and unique mixture of smart crime novel, a classy love story,. and a hard vision of the Southwest. I loved it from beginning to end. James CrumleyJerri Johnson is a P.I. in San Antonio Texas, tracking down bail jumpers and serving subpoen...
IN THE 1980s WEST-TEXAS OIL PATCH, WHEN THE POLICE REFUSE TO GET INVOLVED, A LOW-LEVEL CRIMINAL WITH FAMILY PROBLEMS, COLTON PARKER, AND FELLOW LOW-LIFERS ARE HIRED TO FIND TWO MURDERERS.Gamblers, cons, and whores inhabit the night-time bar world of ...