Richard A. Thompson

A Herman Jackson Mystery

Fiddle Game (Jan-2008)
Frag Box (Nov-2009)
Skin Game (Jan-2013)

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  North Star Bay
  

  • Feb-2003
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  On January 21, 1968 a B-52 Boeing Stratofortress, carrying four 1.1 megaton H-Bombs, caught fire and crashed in the Artic Circle near Thule, Greenland. The Strategic Air Command’s (SAC) Arctic Circle route was an airborne alert operation, referred ...

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  Fiddle Game
  

  • Jan-2008
  • / Mystery
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  A Herman Jackson Mystery
  

  Herman Jackson has chosen St. Paul as his place of permanent exile from Detroit, where his former life as a bookie got too hot to hold. Now he leads a respectable, low-profile life as a bail bondsman, selling second chances to losers and looking over...

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  Frag Box
  

  • Nov-2009
  • / Mystery
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  A Herman Jackson Mystery
  

  Herman Jackson never thought his past would catch up with him, least of all via a murdered Vietnam veteran named Charlie Victor. Jackson used to run a bookie operation in Detroit, but his bail bond business in St. Paul is much safer. And if Charlie V...

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  Big Wheat: A Tale of Bindlestiffs and Blood
  

  • Jan-2011
  • / Historical Mystery
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  The summer of 1919 is over, and on the high prairie, a small army of men, women, and machines moves across the land, bringing in the wheat harvest. Custom threshers, steam engineers, bindlestiffs, cooks, camp followers, and hobos join the tide. Pro...

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  Skin Game
  

  • Jan-2013
  • / Mystery
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  A Herman Jackson Mystery
  

  Bail bondsman Herman Jackson has no illusions about his clientele. He knows a good risk from a bad one, and he knows who should never be bonded out in the first place. Take Ray Valento, who has tortured and killed numerous women in a string of attack...

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  Lowertown
  

  • Oct-2013
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  Herman Jackson is a former bookie and small-time racketeer from Detroit trying to live down his shady past by running a legitimate bail bond business in St. Paul, but it is January, and definitely the winter of his discontent. Somebody has used his n...

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  Demon in the Hole
  

  • Nov-2016
  • / Action Adventure
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  The demon has waited a long time. Hidden away in a location so secret, even the President doesn’t know about it, the demon has outlasted its creators and its keepers and become lost to human memory. But now it has been foundâ€"â€"and it will soo...

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Award-Winning Books by Richard A. Thompson

Big Wheat: A Tale of Bindlestiffs and Blood
2012 Minnesota Book Award -- Fiction