Kittling: Books

  First Line: "This is the last of it," Tex said from behind the wheel of a moving truck .   Meeting her boyfriend's family fo...

  First Line: At night we rode up to the old railroad tracks on the west side of town, turned the headlights off, and waited for the dead to...

  First Line: There were forty-seven people at my funeral .   Canceled lines of credit and flowers and cards of condolence to her loved ones...

  First Line: The pitch made it sound glamorous .   After legal troubles that dragged on far too long, Madison Night and her Mad for Mod int...

  First Line: The buckskin's hooves landed with soft thuds on the sandy East Texas road .   It's 1931 when Texas Ranger Tom Bell rid...

  First Line: Normally a Santa Fe summer is one of the blessings of the Weather Gods .   While out fishing, private investigator Joshua Crof...

First Line: January 13, 1935. Sonny Burton stood on the front porch and watched an open-topped jalopy sputtering down the hardpan road, roll...

  First Line: I was angling my taco toward my mouth with the speed of the ravenous when a voice made me nearly fall off my barstool .   When...

  First Line:" I'm sorry, Madison. You're just not good on paper. "   When Madison steps out from yet another rejection at...

  First Line: Wichita Falls, Texas, Winter 1870. Captain Kidd laid out the Boston Morning Journal on the lectern and began to read from the...

  First Line: I rode against the passenger door in the front seat of my cousin's midnight blue 1964 Comet, watching the headlights cut t...

  First Line: The flowers were a nice touch .  Madison Night's interior decorating business is on hold due to a lawsuit. Warned away fro...

First Line: Geneva Sweet ran an orange extension cord past Mayva Greenwood, Beloved Wife and Mother, May She Rest with Her Heavenly Father ....

First Line: " Stop," I begged. "Please. " Hotel heiress Pippa Sutton has invited genealogist Lucy Lancaster to spend the...

First Line: Behold! The Big Easy in all its wicked splendor ! It took a while but wiseguy Frank Guidry, a loyal lieutenant for New Orle...

First Line: Sonny Burton downshifted the Model A Ford pickup truck and pulled it over to the side of the road . Texas Ranger Sonny Burt...

First Line: The knife had pierced Seth Halloran's heart, exactly at the spot that would stop it cold . Genealogist Lucy Lancaster l...

First Line: It was another damn election year, and if there was one thing that Sheriff Dan Rhodes knew for sure it was that Hod Barrett w...

First Line: I should have expected the letter . Strong, independent women don't always have a lot of close friends; therefore, spen...

First Line: The Devil was beating his wife when the rusty green cattle trailer backed through an assortment of oak, pecan, elm, and hackb...