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A Risky Undertaking for Loretta Singletary, April 2019
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A Reckoning in the Back Country, January 2018
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The Unsettling Crime for Samuel Craddock, January 2017
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The Necessary Murder of Nonie Blake, January 2016
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A Deadly Affair at Bobtail Ridge, April 2015
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Dead Broke in Jarrett Creek, October 2014
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The Last Death of Jack Harbin, January 2014
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A Killing at Cotton Hill, July 2013
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THE TROUBLING DEATH OF MADDY BENSON
By: Terry Shames

Samuel Craddock #11
Severn House
October 2024
On Sale: October 1, 2024
256 pages
ISBN: 1448311829
EAN: 9781448311828
Kindle: B0D1VMLZ19
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery

Was Maddy Benson asking for trouble?

Everyone knows everyone in a small town like Jarrett Creek. So Chief of Police Samuel Craddock is perplexed when he receives a call from a woman asking the police to rescue her sister. Who is Maddy Benson?

Maddy said she had to get away, but she didn't get far. When Craddock finds her just off the highway, she's already dead, shot in the head. And as he learns more about the mysterious Maddy and the real reason behind her recent move to Jarrett Creek, his career is plunged into jeopardy. Can he unravel a terrible knot of lies, threats, dangerous politics and shocking secrets to reveal the truth behind the troubling death of Maddy Benson?