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Novels set in the Houston area. Provided by the staff at the West University Branch Library.

 
Frederick Barthelme. Natural Selection [2]
Midlife crisis of PR hack, Peter Wexler.

Venise Berry. Colored Sugar Water [3]
Romance, faith and friendship in the lives of two African American women.
 
Jay Brandon. Predator’s Waltz [4]
Suspense novel set in Houston’s “Little Vietnam”.

Rosellen Brown. Half a Heart [5]
A mother and the biracial daughter she abandoned long ago reunite.
 
Bill Crider. Blood Marks [6]
Serial murder/psychological thriller.
 
 
Ralph Ditman. Allen’s Landing: the Authentic Story of the Founding of Houston [7]
How Houston was born out of the ashes of the Texas Revolution.
 

Tim Hemlin. Dead Man’s Broth [8]
Mayhem and mystery following the murder of a Houston TV chef.

David Lindsey. The Color of Night [9]
Thriller featuring a former spy turned art dealer.

David Lindsey. Requiem for a Glass Heart [10]
A female special agent in the Houston FBI office matches wits with a Russian female assassin.

Larry McMurtry. The Evening Star [11]
Starring Houston grand dame, Aurora Greenway and her rowdy grandchildren; a sequel to Terms of Endearment.

Larry McMurtry. Moving On [12]
Three couples, their good times and bad.
 
J.P. Miller. Surviving Joy [13]
Bildungsroman set in Depression-era Houston.
 
 
Suzanne Morris. Wives and Mistresses [14]
The love-hate relationships between two prominent Houston families during the late nineteenth century.
 

Page Page. Hope’s Cadillac [15]
Surviving divorce in Houston, 1969.
 
Chris Rogers. The Bitch Factor [16]
The first in a series about a super tough bounty hunter, Dixie Flannigan.
 
 
Anne Sloan. Murder on the Boulevard [17]
Houston,1908: introducing amateur detective, botanist and suffragist -- Flora Logan.
 

Gail D. Storey. God’s Country Club [18]
Further escapades of about-to-be-married Colleen Sweeney, librarian to the Houston homeless.
 
Gail D. Storey. The Lord’s Motel [19]
A zany librarian’s misadventures in love and life.
 
 
Karen H. Stuyck. Cry for Help [20]
Solving a friend’s suicide.
 
 
Paula Webb. Domestic Life [21]
A woman artist, her almost-husband, his almost ex-wife, and a Stepdaughter from Hell.

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