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Terry Shames

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Born

Orlando, FL, The United States

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http://terryshames.com/

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Mystery, Crime, Thriller

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July 2008

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Terry Shames is the award-winning, best-selling author of eleven Samuel Craddock mysteries. Her first book, A Killing at Cotton Hill won the Macavity Award for Best First novel Her books have been shortlisted for the Strand Critics Award, Lefty awards, and won the RT Reviews Critics award. The eleventh in the series, The Troubling Death of Maddy Benson, October, 2024, was an Amazon Editor's Pick and won a starred review in Library Journal.

In 2024, she debuted the Jessie Madison thriller series, with Perilous Waters. In March, 2025, she published Out of Control, a suspense novel.

Terry is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers.

She lives in Southern California with her husband, her dog M ...more

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Terry Shames's Blog: 7 Criminal Minds

Slow cooker stories - by Harini Nagendra

This week's prompt: Describe the perfect writing retreat, real or imagined

I have a folder full of links to writing retreats saved on my computer. When I'm feeling low, bored, depressed, or have itchy feet, I open it up, and go to each link, reading about the venue, the writers in residence, and any blogs that I can find which describe the experience of being at the retreat. Photographs are a bonus

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Terry Shames’s books

Average rating: 4.0 · 4,648 ratings · 746 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Killing at Cotton Hill (Samuel Craddock Mystery, #1) 3.96 avg rating — 1,003 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Death of Jack Harbin (Samuel Craddock Mystery, #2) 4.01 avg rating — 587 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Necessary Murder of Nonie Blake (Samuel Craddock Mystery, #5) 3.97 avg rating — 589 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead Broke in Jarrett Creek (Samuel Craddock Mystery, #3) 3.96 avg rating — 462 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Deadly Affair at Bobtail Ridge (Samuel Craddock Mystery, #4) 4.05 avg rating — 406 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Unsettling Crime for Samuel Craddock (Samuel Craddock Mystery, #6) 4.14 avg rating — 373 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Reckoning in the Back Country: A Samuel Craddock Mystery 4.13 avg rating — 288 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Risky Undertaking for Loretta Singletary (Samuel Craddock Mystery, #8) 3.99 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder at the Jubilee Rally (Samuel Craddock Mystery, #9) 3.95 avg rating — 187 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Guilt Strikes at Granger's Store (Samuel Craddock Mystery, #10) 4.09 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“ropy arms and longish dishwater-blond hair that doesn’t”
― Terry Shames, Dead Broke in Jarrett Creek: A Samuel Craddock Mystery

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