New York: Berkley, (2001.) dj. Hardcover - A China Bayles mystery, in which China returns to her family plantation in Mississippi on the Bloodroot River. Resources, references, recipes. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-425-181901.

New York: Berkley, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A China Bayles mystery, in which China returns to her family plantation in Mississippi on the Bloodroot River. Resources, references, recipes. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-425-181901.

New York: Berkley, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A China Bayles mystery, in which China returns to her family plantation in Mississippi on the Bloodroot River. SIGNED on the title page. Resources, references, recipes. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-425-181901.

New York: Warner Faith, (2006, 2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - A set of the first two books in this series about the battle between the forces of good and evil - the first is set in Mississippi in 1945, and the second novel is 15 years later. Deals with the relationship between the races, and the strength found in long abiding friendships. Book Two is a first printing, Book One is a first thus, since it was originally published as "Black or White." Map endpapers. Reader's guide at the end of eavh book. 339. 372 pp. ISBN: 9780446579506.

New York: Putnam, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The ninth novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, and Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, SIGNED in silver on the black title page and dated in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 446 pp. ISBN: 978-0525539469.

New York: Putnam, (2014). SIGNED first edition - The fourth novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, and Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, which is recovering from a tornado that ripped through the town of Jericho, and also still dealing with events from more than 30 years ago when two young girls were assaulted and one was killed and a black man was lynched, SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 446 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2017). SIGNED first edition - The seventh novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, and Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 358 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, and Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 358 pp. ISBN: 978-0399576713.

New York: Putnam, (2018). SIGNED first edition - The eighth novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, and Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, SIGNED on the title page and dated 7-19-18, in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. Publisher's letter laid in. 365 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighth novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, and Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, SIGNED on the title page and dated 7-19-18, in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 365 pp. ISBN: 978-0399576744.

New York: Putnam, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, who has lost his position as Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, but who is asked to step back in when the new sheriff is killed. SIGNED on the title page and dated 7-22-15, in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 370 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 978-0399173943.

New York: Putnam, (2015). SIGNED first edition - The fifth novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, who has lost his position as Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, but who is asked to step back in when the new sheriff is killed. SIGNED on the title page and dated 7-22-15, in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. Promotional material laid in. 370 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2013). SIGNED first edition - The third novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, now Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi. SIGNED on the title page. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 331 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2012). SIGNED first edition - The second novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, now Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi. SIGNED on the title page. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 339 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, now Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi. SIGNED on the title page. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 339 pp. ISBN: 978-0399158766.

New York: Putnam, (2019). SIGNED first edition - The ninth novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, and Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, SIGNED in silver on the black title page and dated in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 446 pp. Publisher's letter laid in.

New York: Putnam, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, and Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, which is recovering from a tornado that ripped through the town of Jericho, and also still dealing with events from more than 30 years ago when two young girls were assaulted and one was killed and a black man was lynched, SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 446 pp. ISBN: 978-0399181797.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in Biloxi, Mississippi, and described as "A wonderfully crackball love story in which Ray and Jewel Kaiser try out the Paradise casino and what curious things happen to them; what tricks of chance involving, among others, Jewel's fourteen-year-old daughter RV, the casino and its personnel, Ray's dead father, and a mother convinced that a sitcom star is visiting across the street from her house" this darkly funny novel has dustjacket praise from such authors as John Barth, Robert Olen Butler and more. Barthelme has also written eloquently in the New Yorker magazine about his own real problems with gambling. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-395-809770.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in Biloxi, Mississippi, and described as "A wonderfully crackball love story in which Ray and Jewel Kaiser try out the Paradise casino and what curious things happen to them; what tricks of chance involving, among others, Jewel's fourteen-year-old daughter RV, the casino and its personnel, Ray's dead father, and a mother convinced that a sitcom star is visiting across the street from her house" this darkly funny novel has dustjacket praise from such authors as John Barth, Robert Olen Butler and more. Barthelme has also written eloquently in the New Yorker magazine about his own real problems with gambling. SIGNED on the title page. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-395-809770.

New York & London: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a woman from Massachusetts who marries a plantation owner from Mississippi. "A personal mystery within a legal mystery, this constantly surprising novel confronts us with the power of the past entwined with the present- and a woman's efforts to understand both." Epilogue. 345 pp. ISBN: 0-151002487.

San Francisco: Doubleday - MacAdam/Cage, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, one which "follows the hilarious goings-on in a small town in Northern Mississippi over Labor Day Weekend." A Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition. 583 pp. ISBN: 0-7394-4104-3.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - An atmospheric novel set in rural Mississippi - twenty years ago two boys - one white, one black - had an unlikely bond, and then a girl disappeared and suspicion rested on Larry, the white boy. Now Silas has returned as town constable, and another girl has disappeared, 274 pp. ISBN: 978-0060594664.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - An atmospheric novel set in rural Mississippi - twenty years ago two boys - one white, one black - had an unlikely bond, and then a girl disappeared and suspicion rested on Larry, the white boy. Now Silas has returned as town constable, and another girl has disappeared, 274 pp. ISBN: 978-0060594664.

New York: Doubleday, (1996.) dj. Hardcover - Legal thriller involving a landmark tobacco trial in Biloxi, Mississippi. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-385-472943.

New York: Doubleday, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Legal thriller involving a landmark tobacco trial in Biloxi, Mississippi. 401 pp. ISBN: 0-385-472943.

New York: Hyperion, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, set in a small Mississippi town in the 1960s. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-6656X.

New York: Scribner, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller set in Natchez, Mississippi, where attorney Penn Cage is now the mayor. "A deep river pit in Natchez, Mississippi, reputed to be the hiding spot for Jean Lafitte's hidden treasure and a dumping ground for numerous murder victims, becomes the site of a dangerous showdown for Cage." 577 pp. ISBN: 978-0743292511.

New York: Scribner, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set in Natchez, Mississippi, where attorney Penn Cage is now the mayor. "A deep river pit in Natchez, Mississippi, reputed to be the hiding spot for Jean Lafitte's hidden treasure and a dumping ground for numerous murder victims, becomes the site of a dangerous showdown for Cage." SIGNED on the title page. 577 pp. ISBN: 978-0743292511.

New York: Putnam, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A supernatural thriller set in small town Mississippi. "Eve Sumner has an uncanny resemblance to a long-dead woman with whom John Waters was once obsessively in love. The successful Mississippi oilman's college affair with Mallory Candler ended long before she was killed, but the mysterious Eve knows things about that affair that only Mallory could have known." SIGNED on a blank preliminary page. 380 pp. ISBN: 978-0399148811.