Death by Accident by Bill Crider

October 28, 2024

Bill Crider’s Death by Accident is the ninth in his Sheriff Dan Rhodes series. It’s just as good as the earlier ones. And, if I hadn’t been out of town for part of the week, I might have been able to share news from Bill’s family about the...

Winning Can Be Murder by Bill Crider

July 29, 2024

Bill Crider’s ability to combine humor with murder investigations and knowledge of various subjects continues to amaze me. In Winning Can Be Murder, the eighth in the Sheriff Dan Rhodes series, the subject is small-town high school football. As someone who grew...

Murder Most Fowl by Bill Crider

July 06, 2024

There’s so much to love about Bill Crider’s Sheriff Dan Rhodes mysteries. Murder Most Fowl is the seventh in the series, and this one deals with cockfighting and emu rustling in Texas. Crider introduces one or two new subjects in each book. I had no idea...

Booked for a Hanging by Bill Crider

June 30, 2024

The sixth Sheriff Dan Rhodes mystery by Bill Crider, Booked for a Hanging, is my favorite in the series so far. It has to deal with a rare book dealer and a possible missing book. Just fits my taste. When a rare book dealer from Houston, Hal Brame, shows up at the...

Evil at the Root by Bill Crider

June 21, 2024

After reading Nelson DeMille’s disappointing novel, Plum Island, I picked up a story I knew I would enjoy. I’m reading my way through Bill Crider’s Sheriff Dan Rhodes mysteries. The fifth in the series, Evil at the Root, finds the sheriff so involved...