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For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends,...

The author returns to Ford County, Mississippi--the setting of his first novel, "A Time to Kill"--In a collection of seven stories

In this novel the author takes you back to where it all began in A Time to Kill. Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial; a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history. Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves...

"The New York Times bestselling author of No Cats Allowed and Arsenic and Old Books is back with more Southern charm and beguiling mystery as Charlie and Diesel must find a killer in a room full of librarians... Light-hearted librarian Charlie Harris is known around his hometown of Athena, Mississippi, for walking his cat, a rescued Maine Coon named Diesel. But he may soon be taken for a walk himself--in handcuffs... Charlie is stressed out. The Southern...

In a small Mississippi town, justice and the law are two very different things. A modern noir-thriller based on the acclaimed novel by Michael Farris Smith. Two lost souls, tortured by the mistakes of their past, are bound by a secret that keeps them running.

Offers a history of the river, describes Twain's experiences as a riverboat pilot, and shares tall tales, character sketches, and observations about the Mississippi.

Ray Atlee, a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, is forty-three and newly single. His father, a very sick old man who lives the life of a recluse in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi, was once a beloved and powerful official who towered over local law and politics for many years. With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons to Ray to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of the family estate. Ray reluctantly heads...

The Gator Boys Alligator Rescue moves to Mississippi, where the waters are murkier and the gators have a major advantage. But that won₂t stop the team from jumping in and pulling those gators to safer waters. These nine adrenaline-packed episodes follow the thrilling adventures of team as they rescue gators, capture venomous snakes, and even lead the search for legendary creatures like a fifteen-foot alligator and a mythical half-man, half gator...

When she is hired by the Master of Natchez, Mississippi to stop rogue vampires from terrorizing his city, skinwalker Jane Yellowrock soon discovers that there is something different about these vamps as her simple job turns into a fight to stay alive.

"Set in fictional southern towns, the show centers on Bill Gillespie (Caroll O'Conner), a sheriff who tries to solve crimes and catch criminals while navigating through tricky small-town politics where racial tensions often run high."--Container.