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Down in Memphis and northern Mississippi, some wildly diverse people are looking for love--but not necessarily in all the right places.

When A.P. political reporter Lorena Hickok—Hick—is assigned to cover Mrs. Franklin D.

In the newest China Bayles Mystery in the New York Times bestselling series, China comes to the aid of a nurse who ends up in the hospital...

In the exciting new mystery from the New York Times bestselling author, China Bayles fears for her husband's life as an escaped convict targets him.

After serving several years in prison, Glenn Davis returns to his rural Mississippi home, where he forges a path of destruction and violence that finally leads him to a stand-off with Sheriff Bobby

Jimmy's daddy isn't much of a father. He'd much rather lie under the chassis of a '55 Chevy than bother with a son. Jimmy knows it, so he figures he'll leave his daddy alone as much as he can.

Presents a Vietnam war story that probes the long-term effects of combat on two veterans.

At 17, Fay Jones leaves her family's squalid home with $3 in her bra and ragged sneakers on her feet.

Presents a story about growing up in rural Mississippi's working class.

Presents a gritty autobiography of a firefighter.

After his haystacks are burned, Farmer Harmsworth barricades the common path through Applebeck Orchard. Reliable witnesses say the arson was the work of a lantern-bearing specter.

The high school principal asks China Bayles to secretly investigate the popular football coach who led the Panthers to six state championships.

When a man dies soon after Tullie bashes his head with her cane, China's estranged mother frantically calls for her daughter's help.

Deep in Texas hill country, ex-lawyer China thinks life is hectic enough already, and then her teenaged son unearths human remains while digging in a nearby cave.

China, owner of Thyme and Seasons Herbs, relishes her membership on the planning committee for the Picklefest in Pecan Springs, Texas.