Bell Elkins mysteries
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Author
Series
Bell Elkins mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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What's happening in Acker's Gap, West Virginia? Three elderly men are gunned down over their coffee at a local diner, and seemingly half the town is there to witness the act. Still, it happened so fast, and no one seems to have gotten a good look at the shooter. Was it random? Was it connected to the spate of drug violence plaguing poor areas of the country just like Acker's Gap? Or were Dean Streeter, Shorty McClurg, and Lee Rader targeted somehow?...
2) Bitter River
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Series
Bell Elkins mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
An investigation into the murder of a pregnant teenage girl is complicated by county prosecuting attorney Bell Elkins's separation from the daughter who is living with her ex, Sheriff Nick Fogelsong's strange behavior and a person from her past.
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"High summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the small town and its hard-luck inhabitants. County prosecutor Bell Elkins and Sheriff Nick Fogelsong are stymied by a murderer who seems to come and go like smoke on the mountain. At the same time, Bell must deal with the return from prison of her sister Shirley, who like Bell, carries the indelible scars of a savage past. In...
Author
Series
Bell Elkins mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Royce Dillard doesn't remember much about the day his parents--and one hundred and twenty-three other souls--died in the 1972 Buffalo Creek disaster. He was only two years old when he was ripped from his mother's arms. But now Dillard, who lives off the grid with only a passel of dogs for company, is fighting for his life one more time: he's on trial for murder. Prosecutor Bell Elkins faces her toughest challenge yet in this ... story of vengeance,...
5) Sorrow road
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the small towns of Appalachia they came, the young men who joined the fight for liberty in World War II. Now they are elderly, and some of them--like Harmon Strayer, father of prosecutor Bell Elkins's former law school classmate--suffer from Alzheimer's. When Harmon dies in an Alzheimer's care facility from what appear to be natural causes, Bell confronts a mystery that brims with questions about memory, grief and the lethal cost of burying...
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The first drug overdose comes just after midnight, when a young woman dies on the dirty floor of a gas station bathroom. To the people of the small town of Acker's Gap, West Virginia, it is just another tragedy. It is sad--but these days, depressingly familiar. But then there is another overdose. And another. And another. Prosecutor Bell Elkins soon realizes that her Appalachian hometown is facing its starkest challenge yet: a day of constant heroin...
7) Bone on bone
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"How far would you go for someone you love? Would you die? Would you kill? After a three-year prison sentence, Bell Elkins is back in Acker's Gap. And she finds herself in the white-hot center of a complicated and deadly case -- even as she comes to terms with one last, devastating secret of her own. A prominent local family has fallen victim to the same sickness that infects the whole region: drug addiction. With mother against father, child against...