Russ Hall: 12 books

Reluctant amateur detective Esbeth Walters, in her seventies, must face one of her greatest fears when she goes after con artists who are fleecing residents of rest homes. Stir in law enforcers who hope she stumbles, a death that looks anything like the suicide it was ruled, and the presence of a...

Private Prodigy Eye Three Books in One Dead is the New Alive Sylvie Thomas, 33, gets her chance at detective work when she hires on as assistant P.I. to Adam Clay, a 15-year-old genius. Though she carries the gun and drives the car, her real job is to keep him from winding up...

“Hie-eeee.”  The shout came from above him on the hill.  Clay turned just his head, kept the bow pointed down the hill.  Behind him, higher up on the hill were three Comanche warriors with guns, the barrels of two of them pointed toward him.  In the middle was a white-haired Indian...

Esbeth Walters, a retired high school math teacher in her youthful 70s, tells herself that she's never too old to learn something new the hard way when she takes a job as part-time dispatcher at the Sheriff's Department - just a week after the mayor of a small town in the county has been murdered....

Esbeth Walters is 72, a retired teacher, and shouldn't be messing around with murder, but when Texas Hill Country winemaster Win Castle pits his sons against each other over the inheritence of a 21,000 acre spread, including the winery where Esbeth works part-time, the result is murder, and Esbeth...

Arthur Sanderson remembers Frankie Lane from their high school days as a pudgy nerd. Forty years later he sure seems lean and fit enough as he runs through an airport to the sound of guns firing. At the speed of a bullet Arthur's reclusive life changes forever and he gets only brief chances to ponder...

Lea Palmer lives alone on a one-house cay in the eastern Abaco Islands of the Bahamas she inherited from her brother. Her days are peaceful and reflective, spent fishing or listening to the warm tropical wind rustle through the coconut fronds. When a small boat comes across the white-capped blue waves...

A murder at the Kerrville Folk Festival is no way to celebrate life with music, especially when it puts Travis, known by Austin papers as the Blue-Eyed Indian, in the crosshairs of the kind of back country paramilitary enthusiasm that means stringing up "Injun" P.I.s like pinatas. Even...

Blood-drained bodies with two holes in their necks begin to show up on Austin's night streets and the police seek to keep the murders quiet, because don't you just know what the media is going to scream. When Devil's Due nightclub own Owen Peasey hires Travis to see what's bothering singer/songwriter...

Ever go to do something fun only to find yourself in way over your head? Doing a spot of shark and barracuda fishing in the tropical green charm of the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas was meant to be a pleasant diversion for two savvy corporate businessmen. But things have never gone so wrong. Cast ashore...

Walt, 14, and his sister Mindy, 12, are attacked by giant sword-bearing warrior butterflies in their first outing after crash landing inside Jupiter. The only survivors of their ship, they soon learn that all the remaining colonists are nearly their ages as well. All the tension does not stem from...

Romance, if it takes only one or two quirky turns, can turn as dark as the other side of the moon. Little does Dudie Knox know it, but apartment complex living in Austin is about to roll up its sleeves and educate him by yanking him down into an erotic, exotic, and chaotic world. A shy twenty-three...