The Last Call is the first of six completed novels in The Bill Travis Mysteries. Bill Travis, an unmarried, unattached investment counselor rapidly approaching his fortieth birthday, conceives that he may not live the most exciting of lives, yet Julie Simmons, his first appointment that Monday, is deeply in trouble. She has taken a North Texas quarter horse racer and liquor baron named Archie Carpin—the last of a dynasty of criminals from the 1920's—for a ride and cleaned him out of a neat two million bucks. And thus begins the adventure of Bill’s life. Ensues a chase north across Texas to recover the money and shake the pursuit of a couple of rednecks with a penchant for rifles and rigged explosives. Yet, through all this action the compelling tale of yet another mystery—an 80-year old missing person’s case—begins to unravel.

When Death Row inmate Norman Howell drops a tidbit about how he and his father once helped the current Texas Governor get rid of competing Vietnamese fisherman with the use of high-powered explosives, Bill Travis has to decide whether to kick (and awaken) this particular sleeping dog, or whether to let it go. But then the Governor's men come calling for him, and all hell breaks loose. Capitol Offense is the second novel in the Bill Travis Mysteries. George Wier is the author of "Duckweed" (Lone Star Noir - Akashic Books, 2010) and The Last Call. For more information, visit the author's website at www.georgewier.com or the series website at www.billtravismysteries.com.

What is the "blue bone" and what does a seventeenth-century French ship have to do with East Texas? When Bill Travis gets the word that his best friend has been murdered, he not only has to take a trip back to the town where he grew up, he has to go up against some old ghosts who were better left alone. What modern secrets lie hidden in the dark beneath the countryside where Bill grew up? And what darker, more ancient secret lies hidden beneath them? Longnecks & Twisted Hearts is the third installment of The Bill Travis Mysteries.

Why would someone want to kill the curator of the Texas Rangers Museum? And why is Walt Cannon, a thirty-year veteran Ranger the chief suspect? And what could the murder possibly have to do with a very old arson case and satanic worship both north and south of the Texas-Mexico border? To answer these questions, Bill Travis needs the help of the unlikeliest of all sidekicks, including womanizing insurance agent Perry Reilly and Bill's own adopted daughter, Jessica. Follows is a comedic yet tense plunge into the dark underbelly of a hidden world right under our very noses. This is the fourth installment of The Bill Travis Mystery series.

Who killed Edgar Bristow, millionaire philanthropist and war hero? In a small Texas town where everyone knows everyone else, the list of suspects can be every person you meet. What dark secrets wait for the man who is unafraid to turn over any stone? And will the killer strike again before Bill can get to the truth? This is the fifth installment of The Bill Travis Mysteries.

When the old man who is covered in dirt walks into the country honky-tonk and says "The Falling", right before dropping dead, Bill Travis has to penetrate the gathering dark cloak of secrecy surrounding his death and get to the truth before a team of nuclear regulators can rake the entire incident under the carpet. Bill, with his former partner, Hank Sterling, who has now been "recalled to life", must make a mad dash across the desolate West Texas landscape to save the life of Moe Keithley, a Harley-riding bankruptcy lawyer who is in over his head and may very well be the most radioactive man in the Northern Hemisphere.

Why is the fifty-year-old secret of a missing military transport plane motivating some desperate men to begin setting deathtraps for Bill Travis, his client Holt Gatlin, and anyone else involved? To what lengths will they go to stop Bill for good? Does Holt Gatlin hold the cure to mankind's myriad diseases and possibly the answer to immortality itself, or is he instead the host for an ancient evil? To find the answer Bill must have the help of the most unlikely sidekick of all. Caddo Cold is the seventh installment of the Bill Travis Mysteries.

What do a leather journal from a previous century, a loaded pistol, and an old safe hidden in an aging barn have to do with a court order that halts the completion of a Texas highway project? Why are snipers taking pot-shots at Lief Prescott, the highway construction manager, and Bill Travis, whom Lief has called in to help? To answer these questions, Bill Travis must get to the heart of a century-old conspiracy before he himself becomes a casualty in a secret war. This is the eighth book in the Bill Travis Mystery series.

What are these shrieks in the night in the small, historic Texas Gulf Coast town of Anahuac, and what is the Ghost-killer? Worse yet, why is the last person to hear the shriek dead, his body now as devoid of moisture as a 3,000 year-old mummy? Sometimes doing a favor for a friend and client can wind Bill Travis hip-deep in trouble, and this time is no exception. To get to the heart of the matter, Bill must take his wife and his dog along for the trip and make contact with Wolf Dillard, a self-styled Sasquatch hunter who has a story to tell that is beyond belief.This edition also contains the short story "The Woodsman" at the end. Ghost Of The Karankawa is the tenth installment of the action-adventure suspense-thriller The Bill Travis Mystery series. About the George Wier—dubbed “The Titan of Texas Fiction” by ArtPlanet—lives in Austin, Texas with his lovely wife Sallie, a cat and two dogs. He is the author of the popular sixteen-part Bill Travis Mysteries (beginning with The Last Call and currently culminating with Reveille In Red), The Elysium Chronicles (Murder In Elysium and Sentinel In Elysium), and co-author of the Far Journey Chronicles (1889: Journey to the Moon and 1899: Journey to Mars). His new historical thriller Neptune series begins with Neptune’s Forge and continues with Neptune’s Dominion (forthcoming). He has also penned the erotic thriller West of Valhalla. With over thirty-five novels, omnibuses, and short story anthologies to his name, George Wier writes mystery and crime, historical thrillers, action-adventure, science fiction, steampunk, speculative fiction, short stories, screenplays and teleplays. He also plays classical violin, country fiddle, paints oils and watercolors, sketches with pencil, and speaks publicly on the subject of writing.

When Jennifer Travis' piano teacher, Todd Landry, goes missing, Bill Travis has to pull out of all the stops to find him before her upcoming piano recital. Along for the ride is not only Jennifer herself, but also her pet ferret, Morgan Freeman, and Bill's old running buddy, Hank Sterling. Zig-zagging all over the map on the trail of an elusive Todd (whom people keep calling "Sam") the team encounters a host of interesting characters including the members of a dynastic millionaire family with enough skeletons in their collective closet to fill a boneyard. It's murder, mayhem, conspiracy and intrigue at a fever pitch for Bill Travis and company. Desperate Crimes is the 11th installment in the Bill Travis Mystery series.

Former Governor Dick Sawyer may be dying, but he has one final mission for Bill Travis. Bill has to fly to Piste, Mexico, to find Walt Cannon, friend and retired Texas Ranger who disappeared while on the trail of a man named Sunlight, a ruthless killer, drug lord, revolutionary and cult leader. Sunlight wants to return Mexico to the rule of the ancient Maya, but between the jungle and the ruins of a civilization long dead is the most dangerous animal of all—the Mexican Army. With the help of a Mexican police captain, a little girl, and an ornery donkey, Bill Travis must go toe-to-toe with his most dangerous enemy yet in order to save a friend.

In the aftermath of the death of former Texas Governor, Richard Sawyer, Bill Travis must accompany the body to its final resting place in West Texas...by train. The deadline is tight, the Old '19 is an ancient steam train that drives at a ponderously slow pace, and a quarry of ruthless and determined men are out to stop Bill and the steam-driven crew of the newly re-dubbed Lone Star Express at any and all costs. But who are they, and what do they want? It's Bill Travis in his most dangerous adventure of all time, along with a team of aging misfits who refuse to see history die and the last of the great steam behemoths of old stopped in its tracks.

When Bill Travis is asked to travel to the insular East Texas town of Carter to do a favor for his business partner, Bill has to bail a woman out of jail for the attempted murder of a United States Senator, and a pair of Texas Rangers stars get pinned to both Bill’s and his sidekick Hank’s chests. The investigation goes south, however, when the local Sheriff seems to somehow be involved in a conspiracy to hide the truth. To top things off, there’s a speed demon on the loose tearing up the town, Hank may very well be head-over-heels in love with the bail bondswoman, and Tanya—the woman Bill must free—along with the Sheriff’s wife, Loraine, and the Senator’s wife, Mildred, constitute the Trinity Trio, an unholy alliance holding all the real power in the region. It’s Bill Travis with a badge, a gun, and no-holds-barred action, as well as a mystery that evaporates like smoke with every spin of the revolver’s breach.

Bill Travis is overdue to take his wife on a getaway vacation, and with two tickets for a tour of the Central Texas wine country in hand (bought to assuage his biting conscience) Julie accompanies him on the trip. It just so happens, however, that Bill is also interested in an unsolved murder at a winery near Trantor's Crossing. Thus begins the bus trip of a lifetime with a gruff female bus driver at the wheel and a coterie of bored couples with time on their hands and an unquenchable thirst for alcohol made in Texas vineyards. But around Bill Travis the action can get a little intense, particularly when someone doesn't want him to press the issue any further. Ensues more fist fights, shootouts, helicopter assaults, and even confrontations with a deadly motorcycle gang than anything Bill Travis has ever encountered before. With heart-pounding action seeping from every wine-stained page, Reveille In Red is the sixteenth (and much overdue) installment of the popular Bill Travis Mystery series.

In the aftermath of the winery war in Reveille In Red, Bill Travis has to track down the remnants of a biker gang that tried to kill Julie and the passengers of the winery tour bus, “Lone Star Wino Express.” But while confronting one of the bikers, Dale Fluckinger, a hothead with more testosterone than common sense, Bill has to shoot the man. The following day, a sniper very nearly shoots Bill’s daughter, Jennifer, while apparently aiming at Bill while in his own driveway. Bill has to get the family to safety at Nat Bierstone’s ranch retreat before shotgunning for who is behind the failed hit. To do so, he has to take Jessica along with him and head for the outskirts of San Antonio to find Corey Pleasant, yet another loser criminal biker. With Hank Sterling running interference and an untimely and very dead body popping up, Bill has to think outside the box to outwit the mastermind of the plot to kill him. Add in a persistent Perry Reilly who only wants to help, stir for a day or two in the hot summer Texas sun, and you have a smorgasborg of brutal action and adventure as only Bill Travis can serve it. Bexar County Line is the seventeenth book in the Bill Travis Mystery series.

It has been seventeen years since Keesha White abruptly appeared in Bill Travis' life out back of a run-down duplex in East Austin. Now she is a civil rights attorney with a special client who has a problem that only Bill can help resolve. Caro Wallace was once both a blues musician and a Negro League baseball player back in the ancient of days, but in his nineties he has been arrested for murder, and a "just-the-facts" detective wants to pin a string of serial murders on the old man as well. To help, Bill calls in his friend Tim Bryant, an East Texas author and blues music historian, and together the two men launch forward into Bill's most harrowing adventure yet, with more street fights, zinging bullets, and explosions than ever before.