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A Newspaper in Texas, Book 2
FOOTBALL AND THE FLAG
They found the first body hanging from the goalposts.
It’s Texas in the 1980s. A young Black high school quarterback says he won’t play varsity football because they carry the Confederate flag. Katy Williams, editor at the local newspaper, is stunned by the reaction of the town — and her staff — which ranges from indifference to the flag to outrage that anyone would challenge it at all.
When five of the starting line follow Clay Peabody off the team, the situation turns explosive. And then, the police find a body hanging from the goal posts at South Plains City High School. It’s one of the players, and a note says, one down and six to go….
Book 2 in the historical mystery series, A Newspaper in Texas.
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A series set in 1980s Texas.
Editor Katy Williams was hired to run a booming newspaper — back when they had such things. She expected long hours, too few staff, too little pay.
She didn’t expect murder.
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Not far from Plains City, is the Morton salt mines. A maze of ‘rooms’ some 500 feet below the earth’s surface.
One of Katy’s reporters is trapped there. And the bomb is ticking.