Buried in Buffalo County
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Six years ago, a robbery ended in murder. The money disappeared. And Robby Connolly went to prison.
Now, after serving only five years of a forty-year sentence, Robby is unexpectedly paroled and sent home to Buffalo County, Texas.
Someone has been waiting for him.
The FBI wants the missing money. The Howlers Motorcycle Club wants revenge. A powerful Houston crime boss wants something far more dangerous. And someone close to home wants Robby dead before he can reveal what really happened the night Maude Kirkpatrick was murdered.
Captain John Crockett remembers the old case. He remembers the killing, the manhunt, and the story Buffalo County accepted as truth. But as bodies begin falling and violence follows Robby across the county, Crockett starts asking questions that should have been answered six years ago.
Why was Robby released so early?
Why are so many people willing to kill him?
And what was really hidden inside Alfred Kirkpatrick's safe?
Caught between the woman he never stopped loving, the friend who stood by him through five years in prison, and enemies closing in from every direction, Robby has only one advantage left:
He knows the truth.
But in Buffalo County, the truth may be the most dangerous thing of all.
Buried in Buffalo County is the second novel in Larry V. Franklin's Buffalo County Mystery series, a story of murder, corruption, organized crime, old loyalties, and a six-year-old secret that refuses to stay buried.
COMING OCTOBER 12, 2026