Ben Rehder
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Ben Rehder is an Austin-based author of mystery novels, including Buck Fever (2002), the first in his Blanco County mystery series, which was an Edgar Award finalist.
Education
Rehder graduated from the University of Texas in 1986, and then entered the field of advertising.{{Cite web|url=https://us.macmillan.com/author/benrehder/|title=Ben Rehder | Authors}}
Blanco County series
The Blanco County series is about John Marlin, a game warden who partakes in homicide investigations. In addition to serving as mysteries, the series is also a humorous look at the hunting culture of Texas in a satiric style similar to Carl Hiaasen and Tim Dorsey.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}} Publishers Weekly describes it as "confident and vigorous; the tone is quintessentially Texan and relentlessly wry".{{Cite journal |date=September 16, 2012 |title=BUCK FEVER: A Blanco County Texas Novel |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780312291143 |journal=Publishers Weekly}}
- (2002) Buck Fever
- (2003) Bone Dry
- (2004) Flat Crazy
- (2005) Guilt Trip
- (2007) Gun Shy
- (2008) Holy Moly
- (2014) Mind Game
- (2014) Hog Heaven
- (2014) Stag Party
- (2015) Bum Steer
- (2016) Point Taken
- (2017) Dog Tag
- (2017) Last Laugh
- (2018) Lefty Loosey
- (2020) Free Ride
Roy Ballard books
- (2012) Gone the Next
- (2014) Get Busy Dying
- (2015) If I had a Nickel
- (2016) Now You See Him
- (2018) A Tooth For a Tooth
- (2019) Shake and Bake
- (2020) Better To Be Lucky
Standalone novels
- (2012) The Chicken Hanger
- (2012) The Driving Lesson
References
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External links
- [http://benrehder.wordpress.com/ Author site]
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Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:American male novelists
Category:American mystery writers
Category:Writers from Austin, Texas
Category:21st-century American male writers
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