Rod Collins

John Bitter

1 - Bitter's Run (Aug-2015)
2 - Abiqua (Jan-2024)

A Sheriff Bud Blair Oregon Mystery

1 - Spider Silk (Nov-2011)
2 - Stone Fly (Jan-2012)
3 - Bloodstone (Jun-2012)
4 - Mariah's Song (Apr-2013)
5 - Not Before Midnight (Feb-2024)
6 - Snapped (Sep-2025)

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  Spider Silk
  

  • Nov-2011
  • / Police Procedural

  A Sheriff Bud Blair Oregon Mystery - 1
  

  A GLOBAL EBOOK AWARD NOMINEE, this is the first book in the Sheriff Bud Blair Oregon mystery series... A suspicious death leads to an investigation, a manhunt, and the capture of the self-confessed killer. But when Sheriff Henry "Bud" Blair reads the...

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  Stone Fly
  

  • Jan-2012
  • / Police Procedural

  A Sheriff Bud Blair Oregon Mystery - 2
  

  Joined by a bottle-and-cans man, a beautiful bartender, and two Bremerton city detectives, Sheriff Bud Blair sets out to find a connection between a dead sailor in Washington and the Oregon murder of an unidentified "John Doe." An anonymous phone cal...

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  Bloodstone
  

  • Jun-2012
  • / Police Procedural

  A Sheriff Bud Blair Oregon Mystery - 3
  

  Hunted by terrorist assassins working for the elusive Bloodstone, Lake County Sheriff Bud Blair uses the ego and the arrogance of a former congressman to set a trap for a Columbian drug lord. NCIS, the FBI, and the U.S. Coast Guard wait for the trap ...

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  Mariah's Song
  

  • Apr-2013
  • / Police Procedural

  A Sheriff Bud Blair Oregon Mystery - 4
  

  Cartel vengeance in Oregon’s Lake County plagues Sheriff Henry “Bud” Blair until his friends plan war against the Ortegas in the Mexican state of Sonora in an effort to keep Bud safe from reprisals. In a surprising turn of events, a rival carte...

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  Bitter's Run
  

  • Aug-2015
  • / Historical

  John Bitter - 1
  

  Following Lee's surrender of the Army of Virginia to Grant on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox, Captain John Bitter of Abiqua Creek, Oregon musters out of the 40th Missouri. A loner, Bitter plans a quick ride home over the Oregon Trail. The good Lord, how...

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  Abiqua
  

  • Jan-2024
  • / Historical

  John Bitter - 2
  

  In the years following the Civil War, former Union soldier John Bitter and his wife, Morgan, have overcome the relentless hardships of traveling to Oregon from Missouri along the Oregon Trail and have settled into a peaceful and contented life in Abi...

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  Not Before Midnight
  

  • Feb-2024
  • / Police Procedural

  A Sheriff Bud Blair Oregon Mystery - 5
  

  The Reverend Thomas Jefferson Wildish leads back to a high-ranking jihadist in Portland, Oregon. It also leads to a confrontation between Sheriff Blair and fifty bikers bent on freeing their friends, or we'll tear your town apart. In Portland, F...

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  Snapped
  

  • Sep-2025
  • / Police Procedural

  A Sheriff Bud Blair Oregon Mystery - 6
  

  That's probably why I'm not seeing more here, Bud thought cynically. You die, and then the ants, spiders, flies, magpies, crows, buzzards, and coyotes move in. Like human vultures after the estate of a deceased relative. Two molars in the jawbone sur...

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