Gone The Next (Roy Ballard Mysteries Book 1)

Gone The Next (Roy Ballard Mysteries Book 1)

Edgar Award finalist Ben Rehder's novels have made best-of-the-year lists in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and Field & Stream.

GONE THE NEXT is the first novel in the Roy Ballard mystery series.

About GONE THE NEXT:
Meet Roy Ballard, freelance videographer with a knack for catching insurance cheats. He's working a routine case, complete with hours of tedious surveillance, when he sees something that shakes him to the core. There, with the subject, is a little blond girl wearing a pink top and denim shortsâ€”the same outfit worn by Tracy Turner, a six-year-old abducted the day before. When the police are skeptical of Ballard's reportâ€”and with his history, who can blame them?â€”it's the beginning of the most important case of his life.

REVIEWS FOR BEN REHDER'S NOVELS:

â€œMurderously funny.â€
â€”Chicago Tribune

â€œAnother of Rehderâ€™s relentlessly twisted tales. Outrageous fun.â€
â€”Kirkus Reviews

â€œWickedly funny.â€
â€”Dallas Morning News

â€œThe odd cast of characters and bizarre plots and subplots make for a rollicking good read.â€
â€”Houston Chronicle

â€œRehder has made the leap from writing skillful comic pleasantries to pulverizing satire.â€
â€” Austin American-Statesman

â€œRehder writes with an assured hand and a knowing tip of the wide-brimmed cowboy hat to the ways and wiles of the characters that people his distinctly Texan landscape.â€
â€”San Antonio Express-News

â€œ[An] increasingly popular (and increasingly enjoyable) series. With this novel, the Marlin series has completed the transition from light mystery to no-holds-barred madcap comedy crime fiction (Ã la Westlake or Hiaasen).â€ â€”Booklist

â€œRehder continues to improve with each book. [His] series will appeal to fans of Southwestern mysteries laced with a bit of humor.â€
â€”Library Journal

â€œThis series about Blanco County, Texas, game warden John Marlin keeps getting odder and funnierâ€¦But one thingâ€™s for sure: Rehder has jumped to a new level...just might grab a chunk of the outsize Hiaasen crowd.â€
â€”Booklist

â€œDown-home humor that is both intriguing and entertaining.â€
â€”Dallas Morning News

â€œRollicking good fun.â€
â€”San Antonio Express-News

â€œRehderâ€™s clever storytelling skills, his expert comic timing and flair for characters have made this series shine. Rehder doesnâ€™t just write niche mysteries, heâ€™s proving to be one of the genreâ€™s rising talents with his twisted tales.â€
â€”South Florida Sun-Sentinel

â€œThe writing here is confident and vigorous; the tone is quintessentially Texan and relentlessly wry. Thereâ€™s sure to be a long career for this happy, wacky series.â€
â€”Publishers Weekly

â€œBen Rehder writes about the Texas Hill Country with such insightful appreciation that heâ€™s come to own the territory, much the same way Carl Hiaasen owns South Florida.â€
â€”Austin Chronicle
Country USA
Manufacturer CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-09-15
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2012-09-15
Format	Kindle eBook

Gone The Next (Roy Ballard Mysteries Book 1)

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