Primary Target
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Pre-order at Crum Creek Press Read a preview! Owen Allison’s California consulting firm collapsed after then-governor Red Davison manipulated the bidding on a lucrative contract to hand it to a political crony.  Ten years later, Owen — now working in … Read More

Baseball and the Blame Game
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Buy at Amazon What do these photos have in common? The photo on the left shows John Billheimer in Fenway Park when he was a graduate student at MIT and took on odd modeling jobs for Filene’s Department Store. The … Read More

A Player to be Maimed Later
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Lloyd Keaton—who killed a successful sportswriting career with a gambling addiction—gets a second chance at the big time when Blaze Stender, a retired pitching superstar, asks his old friend to write his biography. Keaton is barely on the job two … Read More

Field of Schemes
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A sportswriter with a gambling problem tries to help a trainer escape indictment for steroid abuse. Like his Owen Allison series (Stonewall Jackson’s Elbow, 2006, etc.O), Billheimer’s new franchise emphasizes local color in small-town America… –Kirkus Reviews See entire review … Read More

Stonewall Jackson’s Elbow
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Buy at Amazon After the death of J. Burton Caldwell, president of the First National Bank of Contrary, West Virginia and founder of the city’s Museum of Fakes and Frauds, federal bank examiners find three-quarters of a billion dollars missing. … Read More

Drybone Hollow
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Buy at Amazon Now available in paperback! Mined To Death Mine owner Anson Stokes wants to hire Owen to figure out what happened, and with a little luck, persuade an environmentalist judge not to shut down the rest of the … Read More

Highway Robbery
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Buy reissue at Crum Creek Press Buy audiobook at Books in Motion Civil engineer Owen Allison is called home to West Virginia by his mother, who’s convinced that a skeleton unearthed by a construction crew belongs to Owen’s late father–a … Read More

Dismal Mountain
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Buy reissue at Crum Creek Press Now, in Dismal Mountain, Owen Allison returns yet again to the familiar hometown hills of West Virginia. Within minutes of his arrival he’s embroiled in a battle with cheating hospital administrators and a shady … Read More

The Contrary Blues
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Buy reissue at Crum Creek Press Buy audiobook at Books in Motion Not much happens in Contrary, West Virginia – a sleepy town with failing coal mines, a few old moonshine stills, and an urgent need for revenue. A federal … Read More