Elizabeth Crook

• Nov-2023
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"A wonderfully transporting tale of love in the Old West" (People Magazine) and "a brilliant, beautiful page-turner" (Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Double Blind) about a pregnant young mother, her child, and the fr...

• Feb-2018
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For readers of True Grit, The Sisters Brothers, and Winter's Bone, a young girl's odyssey to avenge her mother's death by tracking and killing the panther that claimed her life. In 1860s Texas hill country, in the midst of the Civil War, young Sam...

• May-2014
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In this gripping, emotionally charged novel, a tragedy in Texas changes the course of three lives On an oppressively hot Monday in August of 1966, a student and former marine named Charles Whitman hauled a footlocker of guns to the top of the Univ...

• Feb-2006
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A MESMERIZING NOVEL ABOUT FOUR. GENERATIONS OF WOMEN BOUND TO A MYTHICAL LEGACY IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST Meg Mabry has always felt oppressed by her family's legendary, past. In the 1890s her great-grandmother Hannah Bass wrote starkly revealing dia...

• Feb-1994
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Elizabeth Crook's vast yet intimate novel of the Texas Revolution takes us beyond the traditional setpieces of the Alamo and San Jacinto to the other places where the war was fought -- to the forest traces and prairies and Gulf Coast beaches, a...

• Jan-1991
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In 1829, Sam Houston was the thirty-six-year-old governor of Tennessee, a "beautiful...imperious giant genius of a man," whose political horizons seemed limitless. The marriage of this charismatic, ambitious statesman to twenty-year-old Eliza Allen, ...