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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1996
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Full Series List in Order

An Al Quinn Novel

1 - To Hell and Gone in Texas (Aug-2014)
2 - A Turtle Roars in Texas (Dec-2015)
3 - Throw the Texas Dog a Bone (Aug-2016)
3.5 - The Hairy Potter (May-2017)
4 - A Shot in the Texas Dark (Jun-2018)
5 - Making It Rain in Texas (Aug-2019)
6 - Never Look Back in Texas (Jun-2020)
7 - Darkest Corners of Texas (Jul-2021)
8 - Kiss and Kill in Texas (Sep-2022)

A Blue-Eyed Indian Mystery

1 - The Blue-Eyed Indian (May-1997)
2 - Bones of the Rain (Jun-2010)
3 - South Austin Vampire (Oct-2010)

An Esbeth Walters Mystery

1 - No Murder Before Its Time (Oct-2003)
2 - Black Like Blood (Aug-2005)
3 - Goodbye, She Lied (Nov-2007)

Justin Bodean

1 - Three-Legged Horse (Oct-2015)
2 - Buffalo Skull (Sep-2017)

Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • World Gone Wrong

  • The Blue-Eyed Indian

    A Blue-Eyed Indian Mystery - 1

    Look down some dark midnight street, into the dark recesses of a smoky dive where the scarred barroom floor is carpeted by broken teeth and dreams, and you will find the Blue-Eyed Indian. He is the private detective who turns over the rock of city li...

  • Wildcat Did Growl

    Lea Palmer lives alone on a one-house cay in the eastern Abaco Islands of the Bahamas she inherited from her brother, who she long ago felt she betrayed. She's convinced she can handle living like this. Her days are peaceful and reflective, spent fis...

  • No Murder Before Its Time

    An Esbeth Walters Mystery - 1
    Worldwide Mysteries - 529

    Ruthless, domineering Win Castle is drunk on power. A wealthy Texas rancher, his vast spread also boasts a hugely profitable winery. After a near fatal heart attack, he decides to find a suitable successor by pitting his two grown sons against each o...

  • Bent Red Moon

    Searching for the same man, seventeen-year-old Mick and sixteen-year-old Syd join forces to survive a hostile territory filled with bloodthirsty Indians, vicious cattle rustlers, and desperate men searching for treasure. Reprint....

  • Black Like Blood

    An Esbeth Walters Mystery - 2
    Worldwide Mysteries - 583

    Retired schoolteacher Esbeth Walters takes a job as dispatcher in a rural Texas community and finds her sharp wits quickly tested in a double murder investigation. Someone has killed the town's mayor--then one week later, a skeleton is pulled from th...

  • Goodbye, She Lied

    An Esbeth Walters Mystery - 3
    Worldwide Mysteries - 656

    CHEATING DEATH Feisty retired math teacher Esbeth Walters has proven her mettle as a sleuth, making her unpopular with the local law. But it's the kind of folksy, no-nonsense help a tough Texan named Boose needs to catch the con artists who swindl...

  • Inside Jupiter

    Walt, 14, and his sister Mindy, 12, are attacked by giant sword-bearing warrior butterflies in their first outing after crash landing inside Jupiter. The only survivors of their ship, they soon learn that all the remaining colonists are nearly their ...

  • Talon's Grip

    Arthur Sanderson remembers Frankie Lane from their high school days as a pudgy nerd. Forty years later he sure seems lean and fit enough as he runs through an airport to the sound of guns firing. At the speed of a bullet Arthur's reclusive life chang...



  • Bones of the Rain

    A Blue-Eyed Indian Mystery - 2

    A murder at the Kerrville Folk Festival is no way to celebrate life with music, especially when it puts Travis, known by Austin papers as the Blue-Eyed Indian, in the crosshairs of the kind of back country paramilitary enthusiasm that means stringing...

  • South Austin Vampire

    A Blue-Eyed Indian Mystery - 3

    Blood-drained bodies with two holes in their necks begin to show up on Austin’s night streets and the police seek to keep the murders quiet, because don’t you just know what the media is going to scream. When Devil’s Due nightclub owner Owe...

  • To Hell and Gone in Texas

    An Al Quinn Novel - 1

    Trouble big as all hell. Retired sheriff's detective Al Quinn hasn't spoken to his brother, Maury, in twenty years. When Maury lands in the hospital under suspicious circumstances, though, Al reluctantly abandons his quiet country seclusion to look i...

  • Bullets in the Wind

    “Hie-eeee.” The shout came from above him on the hill. Clay turned just his head, kept the bow pointed down the hill. Behind him, higher up on the hill were three Comanche warriors with guns, the barrels of two of them pointed toward him. In ...

  • Island

    Ever go to do something fun only to find yourself in way over your head? Doing a spot of shark and barracuda fishing in the tropical green charm of the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas was meant to be a pleasant diversion for two savvy corporate busines...

  • Three-Legged Horse

    Justin Bodean - 1

    Heading into the Wild West seems an adventure to fifteen-year-old Justin Bodean, until the bullets and arrows begin to fly. Life or death often hangs by a ragged thread, as he soon comes to realize, and he must find if he has the grit to survive and ...

  • A Turtle Roars in Texas

    An Al Quinn Novel - 2

    Trouble rides through Texas. Detective Al Quinn had hoped to spend his retirement fishing at his lakeside home and taking care of the local deer. That bubble pops when Gladys Sanders, the sixty-year-old co-owner of an organic farm, is found...

  • Throw the Texas Dog a Bone

    An Al Quinn Novel - 3

    Human bones found in a furnace at an animal shelter just outside of Austin cause retired detective Al Quinn to be called in to work the case. Before he leaves the shelter, Al adopts a new companion, Tanner, a dog just two days away from being euthani...

  • Private Prodigy Eye

    Private Prodigy Eye - Three Books in One Dead is the New AliveSylvie Thomas, 33, gets her chance at detective work when she hires on as assistant P.I. to Adam Clay, a 15-year-old genius. Though she carries the gun and drives the car, her real job...

  • Keep the Bullets Flying

    Lanky ranch hand Case Walker works in the hot sun digging post holes for a fence on the Texas side of the Mexican border when he gets wind of the one thing that could tug him to rush off on a brash and dangerous adventure -- treasure. The gleam of si...



  • The Hairy Potter

    An Al Quinn Novel - 3.5

    Some New Trouble Every Day Al Quinn had pictured himself spending time alone, perhaps fishing more when he retired as a sheriff’s department detective. Instead he finds himself sharing his Texas lakeside house with his formerly estranged brother Ma...

  • Buffalo Skull

    Justin Bodean - 2

    Bullets are flying!Justin’s Aunt Sara has a tiny Texas homestead place out where they should have a chance to get lonely listening to coyotes howl. But not when greedy cattlemen want to gobble her land, Comanches want her goats, and big hulking Fra...

  • A Shot in the Texas Dark

    An Al Quinn Novel - 4

    When a full-blooded Cheyenne called the Bone Lady asks Al Quinn to find her missing daughter, Gerta, he readily agrees. However, he soon discovers that there is no trail, no starting point. Forced to grab at glimmers and hunches that lead him to t...

  • Starts With A Kiss

    Romance, if it takes only one or two quirky turns, can turn as dark as the other side of the moon. Little does Dudie Knox know it, but apartment complex living in Austin is about to roll up its sleeves and educate him by yanking him down into an erot...

  • Making It Rain in Texas

    An Al Quinn Novel - 5

    Once again, Al Quinn’s wish to lead a quiet life as a retired sheriff’s department detective gets interrupted. This time, a female con artist has ripped off a charity drive his brother, Maury, and his sister-in-law, Bonnie, are heading. Sheriff C...

  • Never Look Back in Texas

    An Al Quinn Novel - 6

    An Al Quinn Novel: Book 6Trouble might be gaining on you.When Al agrees to help Fergie find the missing son of one of their long-ago high school classmates, they head off to a ranch in the valley, where some wide open spaces still remain in South...

  • Darkest Corners of Texas

    An Al Quinn Novel - 7

    Scream Away, But No One Cares...Austin's urban sprawl is crowding in on Al Quinn's once wilderness lakefront house. Yet he is tugged away from his cozy retirement, his quirky housemates, and even his promise to marry Fergie by a string of seemingly p...

  • Love and Pirates

    Hardy Hanlon's big dream is to sail a boat on the high seas. Freshly graduated from college, he gets his wish... sort of.He accidentally stows away on a yacht being transported across America on the back of a truck bed. It's a pirate's life for Hardy...

  • Kiss and Kill in Texas

    An Al Quinn Novel - 8

    An Al Quinn Novel: Book 8Al Quinn turns down a musician friend's request to stay at Al's home, which is now filled with his recent bride, Fergie, his brother's, wife and child, and a dog. Al's refusal has consequences that lead to the musician being ...

  • Mysteries Squared

    Retired teacher Esbeth Walters isn't the type to spend her golden years playing shuffleboard with the other old ladies at the senior center. She would much rather stay at home, tending her flowers and reading. But after finding Jake Marston's arm in ...



  • All the Rage in Texas

    Rage paves the roads of Texas.Al Quinn's quiet life as a retired sheriff's department detective is disturbed by a case of road rage. An angry driver shoots at Al's sister-in-law, Bonnie, and her baby. Bonnie returns fire and wounds her assailant, Ket...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Russ Hall has published 30 books.

Russ Hall does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, All the Rage in Texas, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Russ Hall, World Gone Wrong, was published in April 1996.

Yes. Russ Hall has 4 series.
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