T.R. Pearson

• Jun-1985
• / General Fiction
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Marvelously funny, bittersweet, and beautifully evocative, the original publication of A Short History of a Small Place announced the arrival of one of our great Southern voices. Although T. R. Pearson's Neely, North Carolina, doesn't appear on any m...

• Jun-1986
• / Suspense
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From Library JournalT. R. Pearson, author of last year's A Short History of a Small Place , again presents an intimate view of small-town North Carolina, but Neely is no Mayberry, and its residents remind one more of a Southern verison of The Beans o...

• Sep-1987
• / General Fiction
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From Publishers WeeklyIn his third installment (after A Short History of a Small Place and Off for the Sweet Hereafter of hilarious adventures narrated by young Louis Benfield of Neely, N.C., Pearson again spins a rollicking yarn with somber underton...

• Jun-1989
• / General Fiction
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Meandering from comic set pieces to hilarious digressions, Call and Response perfectly captures the peculiar lilts and rhythms of the South -- and spins a magical tale of love and all its manifold complications. The novel centers on Nestor Tudor, a m...

• Feb-1991
• / General Fiction
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When Donnie Huff survives a near-fatal logging accident, his ambitious mother-in-law insists that he has returned from the dead, and he embarks on a Pentecostal revival trail and a discovery of his own faith...

• Jan-1993
• / General Fiction
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In Cry Me A River, T.R. Pearson writes of murder and its consequences in a small southern town. By book's end we of course know who done it and why, but the greatest pleasure lies in Pearson's own investigations into carnal relations, sexual jealousy...

• Oct-2000
• / Suspense
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T. R. Pearson's seventh novel, two riveting stories unfold: one in the wilds of Virginia and one on the streets of Manhattan. Ray Tatum is the new deputy sheriff of Hogarth, Virginia, located in the middle of nowhere with "nothing too awful gaudy afo...

• Jan-2002
• / General Fiction
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In their search for a missing toddler, Deputy Ray Tatum and his sometime girlfriend, Kit Carson, deal with an array of small-town foibles, follies, and characters in a story that stretches from Virginia to Antarctica. By the author of Blue Ridge<...

• Oct-2003
• / General Fiction
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Removed from the outside world, small-town accountant Paul Tatum forges a largely non-verbal friendship with fellow recluse and fix-it man Stoney, with whom he shares a fixation on a local damsel in distress before Paul goads Stoney into an inexorabl...

• May-2006
• / General Fiction
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The hilarious and heartbreaking sequel to T.R. Pearson’s beloved bestseller, A Short History of a Small Place.Twenty years ago, T. R. Pearson’s A Short History of a Small Place was hailed as “an absolute stunner” (Jonathan Yardley, The Washin...

• Dec-2008
• / Horror
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From the acclaimed author of A Short History of a Small Place and Seaworthy comes a wholesale departure -- a comic/horror/romance/fantasy infested with both unsavory American politicians and venomous Venetian lizards. Awash in Pearson's singular wit,...

• Sep-2010
• / General Fiction
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Donald Atwell didn't want a dog.  He already had an ex-wife, a balky truck, and a cat that was part Persian and part Taliban.  But when a whiskery Blue-Ridge hillbilly put his puppy out on the side of the road, Donald didn't have much choice but to...

• Jul-2011
• / General Fiction
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Deputy Ray Tatum returns in a story of Blue Ridge crime and carnage, kicked off by the discovery of a body high in the limbs of a black oak tree. Wry, laconic, and more than a little world-weary, Tatum pursues a savage killer through the rural ...

• Mar-2014
• / General Fiction
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Meet Buck Aldred, a former big-city homicide detective who has opted for a quieter and simpler life in the Virginia Blue Ridge. That was the plan anyway. When Buck noses around in an old missing persons case by way of returning a favor to a neighbor,...

• Nov-2015
• / Mystery
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When itinerant lawman Ray Tatum's quick visit to the North Carolina Outer Banks is complicated by a homicide, Ray gets hired to help track down the killer and finds himself locked into a winter at the shore. A string of barrier islands that's two hun...

• Dec-2016
• / General Fiction
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Eighteen-year-old Hoyt MacKenna was born into a secret society. He's a Low Lord, a cave minder, and his job is to keep what's under down, but what's under has teeth and savage intent and would far rather be up in the world. Tough duty for a teen wit...

• Jun-2017
• / General Fiction
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A corrupt police detective enjoying semi-retirement in Tidewater Virginia stumbles onto an unsolved homicide. Given his nature, he’d be happy to leave it unsolved, but a few of his friends and neighbors have other ideas and steer him to a chance a...

• Apr-2018
• / General Fiction
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This volume includes five complete novels featuring wry, itinerant lawman Ray Tatum. They are CRY ME A RIVER, BLUE RIDGE, POLAR, WARWOLF, and FIRST IN FLIGHT.Pearson's works are the funniest and most heartfelt satirical novels in America today. Micha...

• May-2018
• / Amateur Sleuth
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A small, bedraggled Virginia town is home to a near-derelict Georgian mansion called Eaglesworth. The house sits neglected and weathered until a stranger rolls in to bring it back to life. The story of the sordid secrets the renovation reveals is tol...

• Oct-2018
• / Mystery
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Ray Tatum tangles with the rural Virginia MAGA crowd in a collision of homespun charity and bigoted villainy. Told from a half-dozen points of view, Brigade is a Rashomon for the blood and soil set....

• Jan-2019
• / Amateur Sleuth
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When a decent, regular guy in Virginia does his thieving neighbor a favor by driving him out to a seemingly abandoned farm to steal an old panel truck, the two spark the ire of the hidden, quasi-occult residents of the place who prove eager to inflic...

• / General Fiction
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The mysterious contents of a discarded lunchbox lead to a collision of ten unlikely souls in this story of frayed partnerships, derailed ambitions, and casual bad faith. A bittersweet and all too human comedy from the author of A Short History of a S...

• / Historical
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In the spring of 1879, a sixteen-year-old boy from the Virginia uplands finds himself alone on the Great Plains with a Colt Navy revolver and the family mule. What was meant to be a frontier adventure with two of his friends has turned into a solitar...

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