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My Mother's Dream
A beautifully written story about friendship, love, and ball players from a small Indiana town who played with big hearts.
Mill Daddy
Bill Lightle has given us an enduring love story as well as a tribute to Roy Davis' indomitable spirit that sustained him and his poor family through sharecropping, the suffering of the Great Depression and the hard life in a Georgia cotton mill.
Fire Eater
On a moonlit fall night in 1957 a black teenager, Willie Homer Leggett, was lynched by a white mob in Calhoun County, Georgia, and thirty years later reporters John Maynard and Abby Sinclair are seeking the truth behind the killing. Initially assigned to do a series of stories on the anniversary of the Albany Movement from the early 1960s, John and Abby learn of the lynching through the help of a local history professor. Like many such killings in the South back then, no arrests were made in connection with the lynching. But now there are those who knew and loved Willie and are willing to risk their own lives so the truth can finally be revealed. Willie's forbidden relationship with a white girl leads John and Abby deeper into the story. Powerful and dangerous men are out to stop them.
Nochaway Knife
John Maynard met Moses Cain in the mid-70s at the Flint River Cotton Mill in Albany, Georgia. Ten years later he and Abby Sinclair are investigating the death of his brother, Albert, whose battered body was found along the railroad tracks near the mill. These two young newspaper reporters work to unravel a dangerous web of domestic violence, greed, and international intrigue. What readers are saying about the series:★★★★★ Fire Eater has some excellent scenes of page-turning suspense and realistic characters that come to life on the page.★ ★★★★ Dead River is a compelling read you won't want to put down.★★★★★ His characters do come alive in dialogue and the story builds to a climax.★★★★★ While the geography peaked my interest, it was the story that captivated me to the end.★★★★ One again Bill Lightle writes a great mystery, that keeps you wondering who did it and what is going to happen next.★★★★★ This is quick moving and has some unexpected twists, so it holds your interest.★★★★★ Lightle writes of the South with grace and understanding. Read as as series or standalone novels.
Monkey Palace
The beautiful teenage girl has been tortured, killed, and her unidentified body left in a wooded area in Albany, Georgia. The Albany Chronicle sends reporter John Maynard to the crime scene just minutes after police discover the body. Now Maynard and his colleague, Abby Sinclair, are determined to find out who killed her. The cast of characters in MONKEY PALACE, named after a popular nightclub in Albany, is wildly unpredictable. With names like Sugar Baby, Big Foot, Pearl, and Skeeter, this book takes you on one incredible ride. Something sinister lurks behind those mansions and magnolias of South Georgia.
Hadacol Days
Clyde Bolton has long been a dean of the Southern sportswriting community. Now this popular columnist focuses his beguiling prose on his boyhood memories in his delightful memoir, Hadacol Days. The title is taken from a high school cheer: “Statham Wildcats on the Ball, They’ve Been Drinking Hadacol.” The Statham in the cheer refers to Statham High School, Statham, Georgia, now as long gone as Hadacol, but equally effervescent in the author’s nostalgic but clearheaded look back at what life was like in small Southern towns of the 1940s and 1950s.
Dead River
Dead River is a timely environmental thriller about the destruction of the Flint River and Lake Blackshear in Georgia, and the secrets behind it. Two young newspaper reporters, Abby Sinclair and John Maynard, are assigned to the story but they could never have imagined the dangers that would confront them. The reporters are caught between people fighting to preserve the river's natural beauty and powerful forces out to destroy it. From the book: Tony was on the big river now. He knew its moods, its bends, where the fish were and where they weren't from month to month. He had been reared along the river by parents who had taught him these things when he was a little boy. His father had taught him how to bait both a hook and trotline and how to skin and deep fry snapping turtles, and do the same with alligator tail. As a boy, he swam near the sandbars and wasn't bothered at all by the alligators in the sun fifty yards away. Early on he thought them more beautiful than dangerous. He believed that as a man, too.
Under Blood
A wealthy, elderly couple in South Georgia has been murdered in their home following an evening at a church revival, and reporter John Maynard of the Albany Chronicle has been assigned to the story. John's colleague and love interest, Abby Sinclair, will join him as they try to unravel the dangerous and complicated truth behind the murders. The victims are white, but the police arrest a black man, Johnny Lee Brown, who works for the couple. The truth leads to unexpected places. The two young newspaper reporters risk their lives seeking it.
To Dance with the Devil's Daughter
The book is about Rev. Grady Caldwell, who was in the 1960s the first African American to integrate the Albany (GA) High School football team. Grady knew and spent time with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders in Georgia. For a short period Grady, after graduating from college, became a political leader. But then he became addicted to drugs and for nearly 20 years remained that way and spent time in and out of prison. All the while his wife Kathleen did not leave him. Finally with Kathleen and God's help, Grady overcame his addiction and by 2007 became a Baptist minister with his own church in Griffin, Georgia. This is a compelling story about faith, love, and the power...
