Terry Shames
Terry Shames is the author of eleven books in the Samuel Craddock mystery series. Her books have been short-listed for numerous awards. A Killing at Cotton Hill won the MacCavity Award for Best First Novel. The Necessary Murder of Nonie Blake won the RT Reviews Critics Award.
The latest Craddock book, The Troubling Death of Maddy Benson, October 2, 2024, was an Amazon Editor’s Pick.
The twelfth in the series, The Curious Poisoning of Jewel Barnes, will be out in December, 2025.
Her new Jessie Madison thriller series debuted in April, 2024, from Severn House Publishing, with Perilous Waters. The second in the series, Deep Dive comes out July 2. Booklist calls it a “must-read” thriller.
Terry is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the International Thriller Writers. She lives in Southern California with her husband, David, her dog Monty and her cat Max.
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Series
Samuel Craddock | Jessie Madison
Books:The Curious Poisoning of Jewel Barnes, December 2025
Samuel Craddock #12
Hardcover / e-Book
Deep Dive, July 2025
Jessie Madison #2
Hardcover / e-Book
The Troubling Death of Maddy Benson, October 2024
Samuel Craddock #11
Hardcover / e-Book
Perilous Waters, April 2024
Jessie Madison thriller
Hardcover / e-Book
Guilt Strikes At Granger’s Store, October 2023
Samuel Craddock 10
Hardcover / e-Book
Murder at the Jubilee Rally, October 2022
Samuel Craddock
Hardcover / e-Book
A Risky Undertaking for Loretta Singletary, April 2019
Samuel Craddock Mystery #8
Hardcover / e-Book
A Reckoning in the Back Country, January 2018
Samuel Craddock #7
Trade Size / e-Book
The Unsettling Crime for Samuel Craddock, January 2017
Samuel Craddock #6
Trade Size / e-Book
The Necessary Murder of Nonie Blake, January 2016
Samuel Craddock Mystery
Paperback / e-Book
A Deadly Affair at Bobtail Ridge, April 2015
Samuel Craddock #4
Paperback / e-Book
Dead Broke in Jarrett Creek, October 2014
Samuel Craddock #3
Paperback / e-Book
The Last Death of Jack Harbin, January 2014
Samuel Craddock #2
Trade Size / e-Book
A Killing at Cotton Hill, July 2013
Samuel Craddock
Trade Size / e-Book
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