Do Unto OthersJordan Poteet has left the big city to work as a librarian in his hometown of Mirabeau, Texas. But his dream of the quiet life is shattered when he locks horns with Miss Beta Harcher, the town's prize religious fanatic, in a battle over censorship. When Jordan finds her murdered body in the library, he becomes the prime suspect. And when the police find a cryptic list stashed next to her fanatical heart, it seems as if Beta Harcher has the whole town in a death grip . . . |
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User Review - Carol420 - LibraryThingJeff Abbott catches the atmosphere of small-town Texas to perfection in this, his first novel. His hero is Jordy Poteet, just returned from Boston to care for his mother who has Alzheimer's. In ... Read full review
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User Review - mazda502001 - LibraryThingI have read most of this author's stand-alone books and one other of his series. This is the first of his Jordan Poteet mysteries and the first book he wrote. It was a fun mystery about a Texan ... Read full review
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 23 |
Section 3 | 41 |
Section 4 | 55 |
Section 5 | 69 |
Section 6 | 98 |
Section 7 | 103 |
Section 8 | 128 |
Section 9 | 143 |
Section 10 | 160 |
Section 11 | 174 |
Section 12 | 194 |
Section 13 | 209 |
Section 14 | 226 |
Section 15 | 240 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Do Unto Others A Jordan Poteet mystery Southwest Mysteries Series |
| Author | Jeff Abbott |
| Edition | reissue |
| Publisher | Ballantine Books, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0345389484, 9780345389480 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General |
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