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Bill Maytubby & Hannah Bond Mystery Series

This series plunges into the stark beauty and dangerous underbelly of the Chickasaw Nation, following a tribal policeman and a county deputy as they investigate brutal murders. Their pursuit of justice takes them through sun-baked landscapes, gritty small towns, and into the heart of complex conspiracies. Blending elements of Southwestern noir with compelling character studies, these mysteries explore the dark secrets lurking beneath the surface of seemingly quiet communities.

Greasy Bend
Nail's Crossing

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  1. 1

    Nail's Crossing

    • 240 pages
    • 9 hours of reading
    3.5(7)Add rating

    This debut mystery from a fresh voice in Southwestern fiction stakes out the common ground between Tony Hillerman, Elmore Leonard, and Cormac McCarthy. In a remote corner of the Chickasaw Nation, tribal Lighthorse policeman Bill Maytubby and county deputy Hannah Bond discover the buzzard-ravaged body of Majesty Tate, a young drifter with a blank past. They comb Oklahomas rock prairie, river bottoms, and hard-bitten small towns for traces of her last days. Tate was seen dancing with Austin Love, a violent local meth dealer fresh out of prison. An Oklahoma City motel clerk connects her with an aspiring politician. An oil-patch roustabout and a shady itinerant preacher provide dubious leads. Neer-do-wells start dying off.A fluke lead propels Maytubby deep into Louisianas bayou country, where a Cajun shrimper puts him on the scent of a bizarre conspiracy. He and Bond reunite in the Chickasaw Nation for the eventual face-off at Nails Crossing.

    Nail's Crossing
  2. 2

    Greasy Bend

    • 208 pages
    • 8 hours of reading
    3.8(113)Add rating

    Tribal policeman Bill Maytubby and Deputy Hannah Bond team up again to solve two gruesome murders in this follow-up to Nail's Crossing In a driving sleet storm, a farmer has discovered a body snagged on cottonwood roots in the Washita River. Johnston County deputy Hannah Bond realizes it's her elderly friend, Alice. Meanwhile, at the Golden Play Casino, robbers posing as armored-car guards kill a local stickball hero and friend of Chickasaw Lighthorse Police detective Bill Maytubby. The trail leads through the quarry-scarred Oklahoma badlands to a remote airstrip and a planeload of drugs and untraceable automatic weapons. Also somehow connected are a shady coin-op vending company; a neo-Nazi compound outside Paris, Texas; and a headless janitor in a train-mangled van. As the net tightens, the smugglers get wind of their pursuers and converge on Maytubby and Bond at Greasy Bend Bridge.

    Greasy Bend