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.

When Old Men Die    by Bill Crider
Price: $2.99 USD. 58210 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on July 5, 2011. .
Truman "Tru" Smith is a PI who'd rather be reading Faulkner or fishing on his beloved Galveston Island than solving mysteries, so when his friend Dino asks for help, Tru at first demurs. With some not-very-subtle arm twisting, Dino finally persuades Tru to investigate the disappearance of Old Harry, a homeless vagrant whom Dino and his family have "adopted."