The Richard Carter Novels series by A.R. Simmons (Books #1-5)
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Overview: AR Simmons was born in Chicago, but grew up in the Missouri Ozarks. He lived on a gravel road and attended a one-room school through the eighth grade. His parents were factory workers, but the family worked a subsistence farm on land cleared from the native forest by his grandfather.
After a brief flirtation with science fiction, he gravitated to mystery/suspense.
He and his wife live on the Ozark farm his grandfather settled. His roots (four generations deep) are in the Ozarks. Using the culture, language, and mores of this "Bible Belt" region, he writes culturally immersive stories of obsession set amidst the small-town and rural life that he knows and loves.
Genre: Mystery
Bonne Femme (The Richard Carter Novels #1)
Trust Betrayed and Dark Obsession
Three people. Two former soldiers, each with a mission, each waging a campaign. At the center of their conflict is a vulnerable young woman, alone and far from home.
Richard Carter has come back to Cartier trying to pull his life together, while Jill Belbenoit has come to finish her degree. He has seen her on campus, but doesn’t know her. When a former squadmate from Somalia, Mic Boyd, turns up unexpectedly and assumes a friendship that never was, Richard allows himself to fall into what he hopes will be only a brief association. The last thing he wants is a reminder of his tour in the famine-racked squalor of Africa.
Mic inserts himself into Jill’s life as well as Richard’s. As attractive women must do, she has learned to deal with unwanted male attention. Unable to disengage from one man, however, she obligates herself to the other. Now she must navigate out of both relationships. Jill reproaches herself for both her naiveté and her manipulativeness. Soon she will have much greater concerns.
Memories, dreams, and flashbacks torment Richard as he tries to discover if what he fears is real, while Jill must decide if he is only a damaged soldier suffering from PTSD, or dangerously delusional and obsessed with her.
Is his nightmare vision the product of a fevered imagination tortured by his war experience and his guilt? Or does he see what no one else can? Is he averting a horror or perpetrating one?
Where does Jill’s real danger lie? Can she trust him? Is the “godforsaken pile of rocks” called Bonne Femme a refuge from peril—or from reality?
Cold Tears (The Richard Carter Novels #2)
Richard and Jill flee their unwanted celebrity in Michigan by moving to southwest Missouri where she pursues a graduate degree while he tries to come to terms with the things he’s been forced to do.
Is it redemption or ruination when he agrees to find out about Molly’s missing baby? Is Molly what she appears? Or is she what the local cops say she is?
Jill struggles for balance and sanity for her damaged husband. Richard struggles to be the "godsend" that Molly sees him as. Molly struggles with the memories of her addiction and guilt.
Richard’s amateur investigation crosses that of a real P.I. working for a famous country music impresario. The local police are much more concerned with not annoying the celebrity than they are in finding Molly’s baby.
Why are they convinced that Molly herself is to blame? And what are "cold tears?"
Canaan Camp (The Richard Carter Novels #3)
A Tale of Obsession and Corruption
The good people of the Wilderness Church have come to Hawthorn County, Missouri in an Air Stream trailer caravan following their charismatic leader, Father Joshua. They have ceased their wandering and created a closed commune of the faithful at Canaan Camp. There they enjoy an idyllic life sealed away from the corruption of “the world.”
But a serpent has entered Eden.
Bobby Lee Paget is on a murder spree. The manhunt is nationwide, but the people of the camp have no idea who he is or that he has come through the area.
A family of three is dead in Marked Tree, Arkansas. Two more die in the college town of Fayetteville. When more murders occur in Oregon, no one thinks Paget is still in the Ozarks where he abandoned a stolen car—no one but rural deputy, Richard Carter. When unidentified bodies turn up dumped in Hawthorn County, he alone suspects Paget is responsible.
Paget is a master manipulator. If he has his way, he will utterly destroy the “purest woman” in the Canaan Camp, and use her boyfriend to achieve destruction on a scale that will make everyone remember the name of Bobby Lee Paget.
Secret Song (The Richard Carter Novels #4)
Secret Obsession
Twenty-three years ago, two teenage drivers collided. Marie was on her way home, while Harold was fleeing from a robbery he and his cousin had just committed. When his car wouldn’t restart, he and his cousin stole the girl’s. Marie was never seen again. Inevitably, the boys were caught. His cousin, Wayne, was eventually executed. Harold got twenty-five years.
Now Harold has come home. He has been paroled. No one wants him in Hawthorn County, but he knows of nowhere else he can go.
Within days, Marie’s remains are discovered.
Confrontations occur. He is released from his job because of public pressure. Then Harold becomes the target of persecution, dangerous persecution as someone tries to run him off.
Richard Carter is stuck with the investigation. He wishes as much as anyone that the ruined little man (for whom his wife feels compassion) would leave the county, but he does the job. His mind, however, turns to more serious crimes: a rash of burglaries (one ending in murder), home invasions (one involving sexual assault), and three disappearances. The vendetta against an ex-con who should have known better than to return to the scene of his crime takes a back seat for Richard—until it becomes attempted murder.
The King Snake (The Richard Carter Novels #5)
A Tale of the Sixth Obsession
Just before dawn a sniper puts a bullet through a "nobody’s" head.
Drugs are probably involved, but no one is talking.
A second sniping occurs while Richard Carter investigates the first. He is contacted and co-opted by a Ripley County deputy into the Ozark Foothills Drug Task Force.
The violence escalates, taking a disturbing turn. The sniper begins targeting law enforcement, causing a local scandal sheet to provide an "answer": The killer is a cop. The owner/editor of the Wilderness Voice christens him "The King Snake," alluding to the King Snake’s habit of eating other snakes, even those of its own kind.
Has a drug war broken out in the hills? Is this really a case of police corruption? Or does something else connect all the victims?
Will Richard become a target?
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