New York: Random House, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A coming-of-age story set in Missouri. SIGNED on the title page by the author. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-679-449434.

New York: Random House, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A coming-of-age story set in Missouri. SIGNED on the title page by the author. 208 pp. Review copy with author's publicity photo laid in. ISBN: 0-679-449434.

New York: St Martin's, (1996). First edition - A Country Music Mystery - the author's second mystery set in Branson, Missouri and featuring travel writer and amateur sleuth Emily Stone. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-312959303.

New York: McGraw-Hill, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in a small town in Missouri in 1944. A coming-of-age story focusing on ten-year old Kat, whose brother is serving in the Army, and who takes a job helping out at Mrs. Cooper's boarding house to earn money to attend the world series, and in doing so forms some unexpected friendships and learns a valuable lesson. Illustrated endpapers. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-070378827.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Second mystery featuring Stella Hardesty, avenger of wronged woman and owner of a sewing shop in a small town in Missouri. SIGNED on the title page. 292 pp. ISBN: 9780312559755.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2009) dj. Hardcover - The author's first mystery introducing Stella Hardesty who dispatched her abusive husband a few days before her fiftieth birthday and is now an avenger of wronged woman and owner of a sewing shop in a small town in Missouri. 280 pp. ISBN: 978-0312559205.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2009) dj. Hardcover - The author's first mystery introducing Stella Hardesty who dispatched her abusive husband a few days before her fiftieth birthday and is now an avenger of wronged woman and owner of a sewing shop in a small town in Missouri. 280 pp. ISBN: 978-0312559205.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Third mystery featuring Stella Hardesty, avenger of wronged woman and owner of a sewing shop in a small town in Missouri. SIGNED on the title page. 290 pp. ISBN: 9780312648374.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring Stella Hardesty, avenger of wronged woman and owner of a sewing shop in a small town in Missouri. SIGNED on the title page. 292 pp. ISBN: 9780312559755.

New York: St Martin's, (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A coming of age story set in the colored community of St. Louis, Missouri: Betsey is in 1959, the year when court ordered school integration began. The second novel by the acclaimed poet, author of "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf". SIGNED by the author. 207 pp. ISBN: 0-312-077270.

New York: St Martin's, (1985.) dj. Hardcover - A coming of age story set in the colored community of St. Louis, Missouri: Betsey is in 1959, the year when court ordered school integretation began. The second novel by the acclaimed poet, author of "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf".207 pp. ISBN: 0-312-077270.

New York: St Martin's, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A coming of age story set in the colored community of St. Louis, Missouri: Betsey is in 1959, the year when court ordered school integretation began. The second novel by the acclaimed poet, author of "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf".207 pp. ISBN: 0-312-077270.

New York: St Martin's, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A coming of age story set in the colored community of St. Louis, Missouri: Betsey is in 1959, the year when court ordered school integretation began. The second novel by the acclaimed poet, author of "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf".207 pp. ISBN: 0-312-077270.

New York: St Martin's, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A coming of age story set in the colored community of St. Louis, Missouri: Betsey is in 1959, the year when court ordered school integretation began. The second novel by the acclaimed poet, author of "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf".207 pp. ISBN: 0-312-077270.

New York: The Viking Press, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, a story of a death and its aftermath, set in Kansas City, Missouri, in the early nineties, a city 'fractured by class and race. Dustjacket praise from Russell Banks (who said "Here's that rare thing, a first novelist willing to measure his ambitions against the American Classics instead of the moment's marketplace."), Reginald McKnight and others. 358 pp. ISBN: 0-670894656.

New York: The Viking Press, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, a story of a death and its aftermath, set in Kansas City, Missouri, in the early nineties, a city 'fractured by class and race. Dustjacket praise from Russell Banks (who said "Here's that rare thing, a first novelist willing to measure his ambitions against the American Classics instead of the moment's marketplace."), Reginald McKnight and others. SIGNED on the title page. 358 pp. ISBN: 0-670894656.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1994). First edition - A crime thriller - or maybe this is more accurately described as a humorous caper novel - set in Branson, Missouri, the new home of country music. 291 pp.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A crime thriller - or maybe this is more accurately described as a humorous caper novel - set in Branson, Missouri, the new home of country music. SIGNED on the title page. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-892965320.