PROMISES TOWN
A Texas Mystery by L. B. Cobb
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"Promises Town had me hooked on the first page and I was sad to reach the last page... Even the most minor characters are written in such a way that I felt as if I knew them" -- Kay Martinez, Murder Express
"Don't start an LB Cobb mystery if there are any demands on the next few hours of your time. From the opening page, you are hooked and delighted to hang onto the hook" -- Review of Texas Books "Humorous, believable characters, and more bite than a Texas rattlesnake" -- Chris Rogers, author of Bitch Factor, Rage Factor, and Chill Factor "A gem of a story! Master story-teller L.B. Cobb weaves a no-holds-barred legal thriller" -- Mary V. Welk, author and winner of the 2002 Readers' Choice Award for Best Mystery Series "Another witty, perplexing mystery from L.B. Cobb. Multi-faceted characters, biting humor and emotional discoveries pack the pages from beginning to end" -- Tracy Farnsworth, Mysterious Corner, The Romance Readers Connection
"I don't know that I have ever read anything that handled interracial relationships as openly, sensitively, and with such a sense of acceptance" -- Charlene Keller, Texas Authors Read Promises Town!Buy Promises Town! |
Visit the author at www.lbcobb.com. ON THE BACK COVER: A federal prosecutor, the nemesis of Washington elite, is murdered in a posh Bayou City Texas hotel room. His wife is found with the gun at the scene and her motive is obvious -- he did her wrong and she caught him in the act. The wife is arrested quickly. Perhaps too quickly, Assistant DA Virginia Rodriguez soon realizes, but she finds a dismissal isn't that simple. Powerful people want a conviction and more than Virginias career is on the line -- calculating killers have added her name to their list. Virginia is smart and sassy, and she can hold her own against Leo Zachmann, the high-profile defense attorney who has taken up the wife's cause, but can she deliver Texas justice in a case where the truth is more elusive than the evidence? Promises Town delivers a rich blend of memorable characters, a fascinating view of the two-sided search for truth in criminal cases, an intriguing mystery, wry humor, and Virginia Rodriguez, a woman who has it all -- a killer of a job, a child and a dog to feed, a house to keep, promises to remember, and no Prince Charming in view. Promises Town has been selected by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission for its Talking Book Program. It was included in the Mystery/Detective Fiction from Texas , on display at the Southwestern Writers Collection at Texas State University-San Marcos from September 2, 2003 to February 29, 2004. Promises Town received the Fowler Award and earned recognition in the Tennessee Mountain Writers, Cumberland Writers, and Fort Bend Writers unpublished manuscript competitions. BUY PROMISES TOWN! Autographed Copies: Murder by the Book, TX; Prairie Hill Books, TX; Hastings Books Tajas Center, Bryan, Texas, store phone 979-823-5923. Order Splendor Bay online.
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If not on their shelf, ask your local bookstore or library to order it for you from book wholesaler/distributor Baker & Taylor. Ask for PROMISES TOWN, available in Hardcover (ISBN 0970622449, 228 pages, 6x9-inches, acid-free paper, $25US) and Softcover (ISBN 0970622457, 228 pages, 6x9-inches, acid-free paper, $15US). |
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"A
splendid follow-up to Cobb's debut novel... chiseled out of the Texas
landscape, politics, and Virginia Rodriguez's sometimes bitchy, but mostly
likeable, character" -- Midwest Book Review
L. B. Cobb
grew up in Tennessee and practiced geology before practicing law. She
now lives in Houston, Texas.
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