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The Necessary Murder of Nonie Blake by Terry Shames

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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 NECESSARY MURDER OF NONIE BLAKE
By: Terry Shames

Samuel Craddock Mystery
Seventh Street Books
January 2016
On Sale: January 12, 2016
Featuring: Samuel Craddock
270 pages
ISBN: 1633881202
EAN: 9781633881204
Kindle: B00SED1L3K
Paperback / e-Book
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Mystery

"She was a dangerous girl and people think she'll be a dangerous woman."

Nonie Blake is back home from a mental institution where she has spent the last twenty years, and people in Jarrett Creek are worried. Maybe too worried, for within a week of her return, Nonie is murdered.

Chief Samuel Craddock thinks the only possible suspects are members of her tight-lipped family. Ever since Nonie tried to kill her sister when she was fourteen and was sent away to the institution, the family has kept to itself.

Clues are scarce and Craddock is stumped. So he checks with therapists at the mental hospital to see whether they can add anything useful to his investigation. But he discovers that she has not been there for ten years. Now Craddock has to find out where Nonie has been all this time.

Soon Craddock finds himself dealing not only with murder, but layers of deception and secrets, and in the midst of it all—a new deputy, one Maria Trevino, sent by the sheriff to beef up security in the small Texas town.