{"product_id":"the-worst-detective-in-texas-tim-bryant-9798197387721","title":"The Worst Detective in Texas: A Hollis Waller Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003eHollis Waller has written four novels. None of them made him rich, famous, or particularly happy. Now he runs a private investigations office in a dying East Texas strip mall, between a vape shop and a church that believes in amplified worship at all hours of the business day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is, by most measurable standards, the wrong man for the job.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Vivian Bell - widow of one of Loblolly's most admired citizens - walks into his office asking him to find her late husband's missing memoir, Hollis assumes it's a simple case of a family managing its reputation. He is wrong about this, as he will be wrong about most things, until being wrong in public long enough accidentally becomes useful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Carver Bell wrote in secret before he died contains the kind of truth that a county buries carefully and defends with everything it has: old money, old silence, and men who have spent decades convincing themselves that survival and innocence are the same thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Worst Detective in Texas\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary mystery about storytelling, witness, and what happens when the people edited out of a place's official history refuse to stay gone. It is also, despite everything, frequently funny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tim Bryant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798197387721\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d","brand":"Tim Bryant","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173621932287,"sku":"9798197387721","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-worst-detective-in-texas-tim-bryant-9798197387721","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}