Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke is the first novel in the Billy Bob Holland series.
The release date of this book was August 1, 1997 and went on to win the Edgar Award.
Cimarron Rose book description
Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl.
His lawyer, former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland, is convinced of Lucas’s innocence — but proving it means unearthing the truth from the seething mass of deceit and corruption that spreads like wildfire in a gossipy small town where everybody knows everybody else’s business.
Billy Bob’s relationship with Lucas’s family is not an easy one. Years back he was a close friend of Mrs. Smothers — too close, according to her husband.
But when Lucas overhears gruesome tales of serial murder from a neighboring cell in the local lock-up, he himself looks like a candidate for an untimely death, and Billy Bob incurs enemies far more dangerous than any he faced as a Ranger.
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