Nancy Bell Books In Order

Biggie Weatherford Books In Publication Order

  1. Biggie and The Poisoned Politician (1996)
  2. Biggie and the Mangled Mortician (1997)
  3. Biggie and the Fricasseed Fat Man (1998)
  4. Biggie and the Meddlesome Mailman (1999)
  5. Biggie and the Quincy Ghost (2001)
  6. Biggie and the Devil Diet (2002)

Judge Jackson Crain Books In Publication Order

  1. Restored to Death (2003)
  2. Death Splits a Hair (2005)
  3. Paint the Town Dead (2008)

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Nancy Bell Books Overview

Biggie and The Poisoned Politician

Biggie Weatherford, an eccentric and wealthy grandmother from the tiny East Texas town of Job’s Crossing, takes on city hall to halt a proposed garbage dump next to her ancestral graveyard, only to turn detective to solve the poisoning murder of the local mayor. A first novel.

Biggie and the Mangled Mortician

Lone Star state grandma Biggie Weatherford is directing and starring in a local production of ‘HMS Pinafore’, but just before the first rehearsal, cast member and new town mortician Monk Carter suddenly takes his final bow. Suspects are few and far between, but there’s no stopping Biggie, with her 12 year old grandson, J.R., at her side, as they attempt to bring down the curtain on a crafty killer.

Biggie and the Fricasseed Fat Man

Good news! Biggie is back, bringing with her J.R., her ten year old grandson, and the rest of the Weatherford household Rosebud, he of the tall tales, and Willie Mae, the best cook in Texas. Anyone who hasn’t met Biggie and J.R. has a treat in store, those who have know what fun is ahead in this account of murderous and hilarious doings in Job’s Crossing, told in J.R.’s own words.

For starters, the Birdsong brothers have built themselves a chicken restaurant. The grand opening has the whole town out ready to sample ‘broiled chicken, baked chicken, barbecued chicken, chicken and dumplings, sweet and sour chicken, chicken croquettes, fried chicken.’ But what the citizens aren’t ready for is finding three hundred pound Firman Birdsong under the restaurant’s kitchen table, festooned with white flour gravy and as dead as one of the hapless birds.

Although the timid florist Butch Hickly has been replaced as Job’s Crossing’s one man police force by Biggie’s cousin Paul and Silas Wooten yep, that is just one man, Biggie is ready to help.

And then crisis strikes the Weatherford household. J.R.’s mother, who had handed him over years before to Biggie to raise, has now authorized his other grandmother to take over the boy’s care. This is a real blow. The arrival of the woman and her faux cowboy husband leaves J.R. apprehensive and miserable and Biggie with an even greater problem than the murder to solve.

When the first of these delightfully folksy mysteries, Biggie and the Poisoned Politician, was published, it charmed everyone who read it. People magazine made it their Pick of the Week. The Weatherfords and the citizens of Job’s Crossing continue to charm, and this addition to the series is a welcome even for us all.

Biggie and the Quincy Ghost

Biggie and her gang travel to the town of Quincy and find themselves embroiled in a murder. During their first night, J.R. hears what he thinks is the inns legendary ghost. The next morning he finds a womans body in the courtyard. The local sheriff is ill and asks Biggie to help with the detection. And help she does.

Biggie and the Devil Diet

An old friend of J.R.s grandmother Biggie, comes back to Jobs Crossing. Rex Barnwell and his young wife have returned to convert his fathers ranch into a retreat for overweight teenage girls, and Biggie is forced to reveal a secret that she has always kept from J.R. Not long after this startling revelation, Rex is murdered. Knowing full well that he wont be able to keep Biggie away, the Texas Ranger in charge of the case enlists her help.

Restored to Death

Restored to Death introduces Jackson Crain, a widowed county judge who lives with his delightfully idiosyncratic thirteen year old daughter. When his deceased wife’s sister is bludgeoned to death, and her husband, Ron Hughes, is accused of the crime, the judge decides to assist the investigation. Things do not look good for Ron, who is rumored to be having an affair with the red haired waitress at the town s only cafe. Soon a young vagrant girl is discovered: she has been bludgeoned to death, too. As Judge Crain explores further, he is surprised to find a possible connection between the murdered girl and a new woman in town whom he finds attractive. Full of quirky characters like the gossip laden ladies down at the Knitter s Nook, Restored to Death is the start of another top notch series from Nancy Bell.

Paint the Town Dead

From the beloved author of the Biggie Weatherford mystery series comes this third thrillin’ installment featuring Texas judge Jackson Crain.

An old love, a new flame, and the murder of a real estate tycoon thrust County Judge Jackson Crain smack in the middle of the most baffling case he has ever seen. Add a glamorous lady evangelist and a victim’s tippling wife, and suspects abound. It is only through delving into the past that Jackson is able to unravel the mystery and see the killer brought to justice.

Paint the Town Dead is a sure-to-please cozy that should win Nancy Bell many new fans.

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