B.D. Smith

Red Mound, an Archeology Thriller With a Huge Payoff

The Bottom Line: Red Mound digs up dread by inches, then delivers a shocking finale that readers won’t soon forget. B.D. Smith’s Red Mound opens with an archaeological mystery already sealed in dread. Centuries before the main action, a temple mound in the lower Mississippi Valley, in what is now eastern Arkansas, is ritually sealed, its central chamber protected by ceremony and clean white sand. […]

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Black Frog, a Small-Town Crime Thriller that Fires on All Cylinders

The Bottom Line: Get in on the ground floor of this engrossing small-town crime thriller. Highly recommended for fans of C.J. Box and Craig Johnson. In B.D. Smith’s second Detective Douglas Bateman series novel, Bateman is called to investigate multiple axe murders in northern Maine. Bateman, who serves with Maine’s Major Crimes Unit, soon discovers that the victims attended a town hall meeting to voice

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