D.R. Meredith

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1984
  • Latest Book:
    June 2014
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Full Series List in Order

Charles Matthews

1 - The Sheriff and the Panhandle Murders (Jul-1984)
2 - The Sheriff and the Branding Iron Murders (Sep-1985)
3 - The Sheriff and the Folsom Man Murders (Jan-1987)
4 - The Sheriff and the Pheasant Hunt Murders (May-1993)
5 - The Homefront Murders (Jan-1995)

John Branson & Lydia Fairchild

1 - Murder by Impulse (Dec-1987)
2 - Murder by Deception (Jul-1989)
3 - Murder by Masquerade (Dec-1990)
4 - Murder by Reference (Jul-1991)
5 - Murder by Sacrilege (Dec-1993)

The McDade Family Chronicles

1 - A Time Too Late (Jan-1993)

A Reading Group Mystery

1 - Murder in Volume (Jan-2000)
2 - By Hook or by Book (May-2000)
3 - Murder Past Due (Mar-2001)
4 - Tome of Death (Feb-2005)
5 - Murder by the Book (Jun-2006)

Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • The Sheriff and the Panhandle Murders

    Charles Matthews - 1

    Who hated good ole boy Billy Joe Williams and beautiful seventeen-year-old Maria Martinez enough to kill them? One thing's certain: their murders, on the eve of the big Frontier Days celebration, send Richter-scale tremors through the Anglo community...

  • The Sheriff and the Branding Iron Murders

    Charles Matthews - 2

    With cowboy artist Willie Russell brutally slain and the clues to his murder scarce, Sheriff Charles Timothy Matthews consults the story of the Santiago Crucifix, which vanished a century before, to begin his investigation. Reprint....

  • The Sheriff and the Folsom Man Murders

    Charles Matthews - 3

    Because his deputy has been accused of murdering an archeologist, Texas sheriff Charles Matthews travels to New Mexico where he uncovers another murder and startling revelations that complicate the investigation...

  • Murder by Impulse

    John Branson & Lydia Fairchild - 1

    Accident . . . or murder? A Continental rams the back of a gasoline rig, and in the ensuing pile-up two people die. One of them is Amy Steele, beautiful wife of Jim Steele, a Texas oil millionaire. Eight months later, police find the remains of a the...

  • Murder by Deception

    John Branson & Lydia Fairchild - 2

    Charlton Price-Leigh III came to the Texas panhandle to win approval for a potentially life-threatening nuclear waste dump. What he got was a knife in the chest. The police have only one suspect -- the owner of the wheat field where Charlton's naked ...

  • Murder by Masquerade

    John Branson & Lydia Fairchild - 3

    A murderer's run amok in Amarillo. The cops have dubbed him "The Boulevard Butcher." His calling cards are a written invitation and a taste for mutilation. His prey are the prostitutes plying their trade on the night streets of the Texas panhandle...

  • Murder by Reference

    John Branson & Lydia Fairchild - 4

    Attorney John Lloyd Branson searches for the killer of museum curator Brad Hemphill, who had been found murdered and perched upon a dinosaur skeleton in the Texas Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum. Reprint....

  • Windkill

    in Malice Domestic 1

    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD ruffles feathers on Beacon Hill...BARBARA PAUL visits with a fatally clumsy clan...D.R. MEREDITH tells a murderer to go fly a kite...AUDREY PETERSON pursues a shadowy gentleman caller...VALERIE FRANKEL tracks a catnapper in Brooklyn...

  • A Time Too Late

    The McDade Family Chronicles - 1

    After beating the odds and building her own ranch empire in a world where a woman was either a whore or a helpmate, Mattie Jo Hunter runs the risk of losing it all when she becomes irresistibly drawn to her ranch manager. Original....



  • The Sheriff and the Pheasant Hunt Murders

    Charles Matthews - 4

    When the most loathed man in Crawford County -- ruthless banker Rich Hansford -- is killed on the first day of the annual Panhandle Pheasant Hunt, the consensus is that whoever fired the shot deserves an award. But Sheriff Charles Matthews is determi...

  • The Reckoning

    In the sequel to A Time Too Late, Mattie Jo Hunter fights prairie fire, blizzards, floods, droughts, and plagues as she attempts to raise her sons, Leon and Robert, and keep her land. Original....

  • Murder by Sacrilege

    John Branson & Lydia Fairchild - 5

    "Don't miss D.R. Meredith's High Plains mysteries. Delightful characters, vast Texas landscapes, dandy yarns."

    TONY HILLERMAN

    Nobody approved of the preacher's wife--a truck-stop waitress. But when she was found murdered and plunked in ...

  • Highwater

    in Malice Domestic 3

    Acclaimed Agatha Award-winning author Nancy Pickard dishes up a perfectly delicious new feast of original mystery stories, served up in classic Agatha Christie style. Celebrating the enduring legacy of the most beloved crime writer of all time, MALIC...

  • The Homefront Murders

    Charles Matthews - 5

    WHO STASHED THE BODY IN THE COURTHOUSE BASEMENT?
    The folks in Crawford County, Texas, are silent as death about the dramatic discovery of the remains of a G.I. who was murdered in World War II. Sheriff Charles Matthews, feeling more an outsider th...

  • Murder in Volume

    A Reading Group Mystery - 1

    Reference librarian Megan Clark has a passion for fictional crime--but when she and her fellow book group members go from reading mysteries to solving them, they discover that real-life crime is more complex than the most puzzling whodunit... The ...

  • By Hook or by Book

    A Reading Group Mystery - 2

    Reference librarian Megan Clark has a passion for fictional crime -- but when she and her fellow book group members go from reading mysteries to solving them, they discover that real-life crime is more complex than the most puzzling whodunit... TA...

  • Murder Past Due

    A Reading Group Mystery - 3

    Reference librarian Megan Clark has a passion for fictional crime -- but when she and her fellow book group members go from reading mysteries to solving them, they discover that real-life crime is more complex than the most puzzling whodunit.... T...

  • A Woman's Place and Other Mysterious Tales

  • Tome of Death

    A Reading Group Mystery - 4

    Reference librarian Megan Clark has a passion for fictional crime-but when she and her fellow book group members go from reading mysteries to solving them, they discover that real-life crime is more complex than the most puzzling whodunit... The m...



  • Murder by the Book

    A Reading Group Mystery - 5

    Reference librarian Megan Clark has a passion for fictional crime -- but when she and her fellow book group members go from reading mysteries to solving them, they discover that real-life crime is more complex than the most puzzling whodunit... In...

  • Incident on 6th Street

    Route 66 was the Road of Dreams, the road that led to a second chance, a new beginning for those caught in the despair of the Great Depression. But sometimes, besides the filling stations, cafes shaped like Indian tipis, rattlesnake farms, and roadsi...

  • One Strike Too Many

    With a lifetime bowling average of sixty-nine, Maude Turner was not an aficionado of the sport. In fact, given the choice between watching a bowling tournament and throwing herself into an erupting volcano, she might reconsider her stand against sel...

  • Retrospective

    People called her That Hunter Woman and they didn't mean it kindly, but Mattie Hunter suspected if she had her life given back to her to correct, she would make the same choices. She was a hard woman, she knew that, but she had faced hard choices and...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

D.R. Meredith has published 23 books.

D.R. Meredith does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Retrospective, was published in June 2014.

The first book by D.R. Meredith, The Sheriff and the Panhandle Murders, was published in July 1984.

Yes. D.R. Meredith has 5 series.
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