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    Gone The Next: Roy Ballard Mysteries, #1

    By Ben Rehder

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    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 shorts—the same outfit worn by Tracy Turner, a six-year-old abducted the day before. When the police are skeptical of Ballard's report—and with his history, who can blame them?—it's the beginning of the most important case of his life.  

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

    “Murderously funny.” 
    —Chicago Tribune

    “Another of Rehder’s relentlessly twisted tales. Outrageous fun.” 
    —Kirkus Reviews

    “Wickedly funny.” 
    —Dallas Morning News

    “The odd cast of characters and bizarre plots and subplots make for a rollicking good read.” 
    —Houston Chronicle

    “Rehder has made the leap from writing skillful comic pleasantries to pulverizing satire.”
    — Austin American-Statesman 

    “Rehder 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."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBen Rehder
    Release dateJun 8, 2015
    ISBN9781513024462
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    Gone The Next: Roy Ballard Mysteries, #1
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    Ben Rehder

    Ben Rehder is a native Texan and a resident of Austin. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1986, and then entered the field of advertising. Rehder is an avid hunter and outdoorsman, interests which have fueled his fiction and magazine writing. His Blanco County mysteries have been nominated for the Edgar, Lefty, and Barry Awards. He lives near Austin, Texas, where he was born and raised.

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