Buffalo County Mystery

Welcome to Buffalo County, Texas—where everyone knows their neighbors, everyone has a history, and some secrets are worth killing to protect.

Set against the backroads, small towns, pine forests, and lakes of East Texas, A Buffalo County Mystery follows veteran lawman John Crockett as he investigates the crimes that expose what lies beneath the surface of the communities he calls home.

A Vietnam veteran and seasoned investigator, Crockett understands that solving a crime takes more than evidence. It takes knowing people—their loyalties, their grudges, the things they’ll admit, and the truths they’ll do almost anything to keep hidden.

Beginning with Murder on Parrish Road, the series introduces Crockett and the men and women of Buffalo County through a murder investigation that reaches far beyond a lonely East Texas road. Ten years later, Buried in Buffalo County returns to a county that has changed—but where old crimes, old enemies, and long-buried secrets have a way of finding their way back to the surface.

Blending police procedural, Southern crime fiction, family drama, and small-town mystery, Larry V. Franklin’s Buffalo County stories are driven not only by the crimes at their center, but by the people caught up in them. Friendships and families matter. Actions have consequences. Characters grow older, relationships change, and what happens in one story becomes part of the history they carry into the next.

For readers who enjoy character-driven mysteries, authentic law-enforcement detail, Texas crime fiction, small-town intrigue, and stories where justice is rarely as simple as discovering who committed the crime.

Truth. Justice. East Texas.