Bruce Hammack

A Fen Maguire Mystery

1 - Murder On The Brazos (Feb-2023)
2 - Murder On The Angelina (Apr-2023)
3 - Murder On The Guadalupe (Jun-2023)
4 - Murder On The Wichita (Oct-2023)
5 - Murder On The San Gabriel (Apr-2024)

Peacemakers

1 - The Key (Apr-2013)
2 - They Sow the Wind (Aug-2013)
3 - Season of Justice (Oct-2013)

A Smiley and McBlythe Mystery

1 - Exercise Is Murder (Jan-2019)
2 - The Long Fall (Apr-2019)
3 - The Ice House Murder (Jul-2019)
4 - Jingle Bells, Rifle Shells (Sep-2019)
5 - Pistols and Poinsettias (Sep-2020)
6 - Five Card Murder (Apr-2021)
7 - Murder In The Dunes (Sep-2021)
8 - The Name Game Murder (Jan-2022)
9 - Murder Down The Line (May-2022)
10 - Vision Of Murder (Aug-2022)
11 - Mistletoe, Malice And Murder (Dec-2022)
12 - A Beach To Die For (Aug-2023)
13 - Dig Deep For Murder (Jan-2024)

Star of Justice

1 - Long Road to Justice (May-2020)
2 - A Murder Redeemed (Jan-2021)
3 - A Grave Secret (Jun-2021)
4 - Justice On A Midnight Clear (Oct-2021)

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  The Key
  

  • Apr-2013
  • / Romance
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  Peacemakers - 1
  

  Book 1 in The Peacemakers series.A worshiper learns about being a warrior and a warrior learns about love.CJ David, a farm raised Christian woman, determined at an early age she would be a Texas Highway Patrol Officer. David Harper, a veteran state t...

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  They Sow the Wind
  

  • Aug-2013
  • / Romance
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  Peacemakers - 2
  

  Hold on to your hat, there is an evil wind blowing.The trip from Central Texas to Breckenridge, Colorado for a snow-filled honeymoon week was fine…until the kidnapping. Excellent skiing awaited them...except for the blood in the snow. The week afte...

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  Season of Justice
  

  • Oct-2013
  • / Romance
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  Peacemakers - 3
  

  “To everything there is a season…” For CJ Harper, an assistant chief of police at a Christian university, it is a season of heartache, danger and deception. For David Harper, CJ’s Texas Ranger husband, it’s a season of coming clean about a ...

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  Exercise Is Murder
  

  • Jan-2019
  • / Law Enforcement
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  A Smiley and McBlythe Mystery - 1
  

  Exercise Is Murder introduces you to blind former homicide detective, Steve Smiley and his new partner in this classic private detective mystery series readers describe as a multi-layered whodunit and briskly paced with lots of clues and suspects.It'...

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  The Long Fall
  

  • Apr-2019
  • / Law Enforcement
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  A Smiley and McBlythe Mystery - 2
  

  He knows it's murder... but can he prove it?Four classmates arrive for their twentieth high school class reunion. Now one of them is dead. The police think it was suicide. Blind PI Steve Smiley believes someone waited a long time for revenge.A very c...

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  The Ice House Murder
  

  • Jul-2019
  • / Law Enforcement
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  A Smiley and McBlythe Mystery - 3
  

  A murder is committed…

  A Russian National sits in jail.

  Someone with deep pockets wants him out.

  Proclaiming his client’s innocence, a Houston lawyer wants Smiley and McBlythe to find out who committed the murder in the ice...

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  Jingle Bells, Rifle Shells
  

  • Sep-2019
  • / Law Enforcement
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  A Smiley and McBlythe Mystery - 4
  

  Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells...Rifle Shells?Blind private investigator Steve Smiley and his partner hear a rifle shot. Hordes of Christmas shoppers scatter. A famous big-game hunter drops to the sidewalk. They grab the beautiful teen who was arguing wi...

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  Long Road to Justice
  

  • May-2020
  • / Police Procedural
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  Star of Justice - 1
  

  The truth may cost him everything... but living a lie is no longer an option.Sixteen years ago, David Harper's father was sent to prison for his mother's murder. Escaping the shame and memories, David changed his name and forged a career as a highly ...

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  Pistols and Poinsettias
  

  • Sep-2020
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Smiley and McBlythe Mystery - 5
  

  Steve isn't celebrating Christmas...he's trying to survive it.Blind PI Steve Smiley loathes Christmas—too many memories. When his partner secures an invitation for them to teach at a mystery writers' conference in Miami, what promises to be a ...

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  A Murder Redeemed
  

  • Jan-2021
  • / Christian
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  Star of Justice - 2
  

  A killer is on the loose. CJ will either stop him or be next on his list.CJ is living the life she's always wanted. She's married to the man of her dreams, enjoying a new home in the country and a rewarding career as the assistant police chief at a p...

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  Five Card Murder
  

  • Apr-2021
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Smiley and McBlythe Mystery - 6
  

  An inheritance worth millions. A killer with a list...and Smiley's on it.Blind PI Smiley's job as executor of a large Texas estate is complicated by the rancher's suspicious death. While the sheriff is investigating the rancher's death, the ranch for...

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  A Grave Secret
  

  • Jun-2021
  • / Christian
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  Star of Justice - 3
  

  College students are dying... CJ must stop the deadly menace.Moonshine and fentanyl are wreaking havoc on her campus. One student already paid the ultimate price. As assistant chief of police, it's up to CJ to rid the campus of the lethal threat. In ...

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  Murder In The Dunes
  

  • Sep-2021
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Smiley and McBlythe Mystery - 7
  

  A detective's perfect vacation: sun, sand, surf... and murder.When blind PI Steve Smiley visits his friend and writing mentor, Kate Bridges, he anticipates an idyllic South Padre Island getaway. The island's magic spell is shattered when Kate is acco...

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  Justice On A Midnight Clear
  

  • Oct-2021
  • / Police Procedural
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  Star of Justice - 4
  

  A killer is out for revenge... and she's the target.On maternity leave from Agape University, Assistant Chief of Police CJ Harper finds herself conflicted. Will she continue the career she has worked so hard for, or embrace the new dream of full-time...

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  The Name Game Murder
  

  • Jan-2022
  • / Law Enforcement
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  A Smiley and McBlythe Mystery - 8
  

  One recluse millionaire. One murder... so far.Life between cases is downright boring for blind PI Steve Smiley. When an insurance investigator looking for a missing millionaire is convinced the man is alive, Smiley doesn't hesitate to join the hunt.W...

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  Murder Down The Line
  

  • May-2022
  • / Law Enforcement
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  A Smiley and McBlythe Mystery - 9
  

  Three families. Two murders. One blind PI. Has he finally met his match?Blind PI Steve Smiley's former homicide partner is in trouble. If Leo can't solve an eighty-year-old cold case murder, he'll be put out to pasture before his time.When Smiley off...

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  Vision Of Murder
  

  • Aug-2022
  • / Thriller
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  A Smiley and McBlythe Mystery - 10
  

  Liars at every turn... but which one is the killer?It's up to the blind detective to find out.When blind PI Steve Smiley accompanies his nervous partner to the optometry office for her first eye exam, screams coming from the exam room aren't exactly ...

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  Mistletoe, Malice And Murder
  

  • Dec-2022
  • / Thriller
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  A Smiley and McBlythe Mystery - 11
  

  Nothing takes a detective's mind off Christmas like a murder.Embroiled in a generations-long feud, an oil baron is convinced someone in his family will die soon—and it will probably be him. When blind PI Steve Smiley is called in to find answe...

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  Murder On The Brazos
  

  • Feb-2023
  • / Mystery
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  A Fen Maguire Mystery - 1
  

  He has no badge and no authority, in a county full of corruption, drugs and murder.Newman County was clean and safe when Fen Maguire left office as sheriff nine months ago. But the dead drug dealer found floating down the river says things may be cha...

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  Murder On The Angelina
  

  • Apr-2023
  • / Thriller
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  A Fen Maguire Mystery - 2
  

  There's more to this game than dodging paintballs... a killer is on the loose.Newly licensed private investigator Fen Maguire gets his next case — to investigate an extortion ring putting the squeeze on loggers in the piney woods of East Texas...

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  Murder On The Guadalupe
  

  • Jun-2023
  • / Thriller
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  A Fen Maguire Mystery - 3
  

  Two murders, mirror image victims... one trail to the killer.Private Investigator Fen Maguire is called in to assist a new police chief solve a woman's murder on the Guadalupe River. All evidence points to a long-time homeless person, prompting a qui...

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  A Beach To Die For
  

  • Aug-2023
  • / Thriller
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  A Smiley and McBlythe Mystery - 12
  

  An island paradise... and a killer on the loose.Warm Caribbean sunshine and the whisper of waves upon the shore beckon blind PI Steve Smiley. He's come for the wedding of his friend, Bella, at her parents' island resort, but the tide turns on the joy...

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  Murder On The Wichita
  

  • Oct-2023
  • / Thriller
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  A Fen Maguire Mystery - 4
  

  Fraud, deception, murder... what else awaits this detective along the banks of the muddy Wichita?Substituting for an art professor on medical leave, artist and private detective Fen Maguire is asked to investigate a long-standing cold case. Seven yea...

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  Dig Deep For Murder
  

  • Jan-2024
  • / Thriller
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  A Smiley and McBlythe Mystery - 13
  

  It was the perfect murder... until the truth refused to stay buried. With no active murder case to solve, private investigator Steve Smiley is enjoying a week of peace and quiet. Meanwhile, his partner is preoccupied with her latest real estate proje...

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  Murder On The San Gabriel
  

  • Apr-2024
  • / Thriller
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  A Fen Maguire Mystery - 5
  

  A fortune in Texas land... and a ruthless killer who wants it.When a land baron dies under suspicious circumstances, private investigator Fen Maguire is called in to uncover the truth. There are plenty of people who want the land along the San Gabrie...

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