Gator Kill    by Bill Crider
Price: $2.99 USD. 59260 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on March 27, 2011. .
After he failed to find his missing sister, whose remains finally turned up in a bag in an overgrown field, Texas PI Truman Smith retired to become a housepainter on Galveston Island. But when an alligator is killed and its carcass left on display on a family friend's property, Tru is persuaded to search for the culprit.

Murder Takes a Break - A Truman Smith Mystery    by Bill Crider
Price: $2.99 USD. 72500 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on May 1, 2012. .
In Murder Takes a Break, Galveston, Texas principal investigator Truman Smith loathes missing person cases because they either end up badly for his clients, or the person does not want to be found. So only as a personal favor to his friend Dino would Tru accept the case of missing college student, Randall Kirbo, who disappeared in the area while on Spring break nine months ago.