Newspaper in Texas

What would you do to keep a secret? Bob Anderson ­­- local banker, city council member, and now murder victim - had the goods on a bunch of people in Plains City, Texas. Everybody wants those files; no one can find them. Katy Williams was hired to make the Plains City Gazette into a modern newspaper. She's got enough on her plate with the newspaper, a Texan boyfriend, and Texas in general - she tells her friends back home these are her foreign correspondent years. She's understaffed, overworked and just grateful to get the newspaper out every day.Someone wants Bob Anderson's files bad enough to kill. He's killed once, and he's willing to do it again to keep his sins hidden. Unfortunately for Katy, the murderer and half the town want those files, for all kinds of reasons. And they all think she has them.

Football and the FlagIt's Texas in the 1980s.A young black high school quarterback says he won't play varsity football because they carry the confederate flag. Katy Williams, editor at the local newspaper, is stunned by the reaction of the town -- and her staff -- which ranges from indifference to the flag to outrage that anyone would challenge it at all. When five of the starting line follow Clay Peabody off the team, the situation turns explosive. And then, the police find a body hanging from the goal posts at South Plains City High School. It's one of the players, and a note says, one down and six to go....

A Woman's Place? Ruthie Brewster was on a mission to make sure every abused woman in Plains City, Texas, has a safe place to go. Until someone killed her. Plains City Gazette news editor Katy Williams admired Ruthie a lot. She's appalled the police seem less than committed to finding her killer. A local minister thinks what she was doing was of the devil and that she got what was due her. Even her own brother seems unmoved by her death. Then someone kills another woman on the board of the Women's Shelter. It looks like the killer has a list. And Katy's public support for the Shelter just added her to it. Book 3 in the historical mystery series, A Newspaper in Texas.

People's lives are on the line, and Katy Williams can't even pick up the phone. She's learning how to edit without using her hands. Her wrists are still damaged from the arson fire last month. It's left her in pain and cranky. Although her reporters at the Plains City Gazette swear they can't tell the difference - she's always been cranky. Funny. She thinks the arson fire may have damaged her sense of humor too. It's Texas, 1988. The arson fire has exposed a white militia compound that's growing out in the east Texas pine country. The FBI want in to take a look. And the agent they're sending in? John Williams, her brother. It's not just her staff who are depending on her now. Book 4 in the historical mystery series, A Newspaper in Texas.