My Brothers' Keeper

By J.D. Marlow

Randall Teague never made it to work.

Field hands found the cotton foreman at dawn in a drainage culvert outside Happy, Texas, shot dead on the wrong side of the county line.

His brother Chris has been the Swisher County sheriff for three terms. He coaches, he raises two boys, and he's the man people in Tulia call when something goes wrong. But Randall died a few hundred yards outside Chris's jurisdiction. The case belongs to a Texas Ranger and a sheriff out of Canyon, and Chris is supposed to stand back and let them work it.

He can't. Randall's last voicemail is still on his phone. The German woman Randall had been living with isn't saying much. And Chris can't stop thinking about a night in Iraq in 2007, back when men knew him by another name.

Set in the cotton country between Lubbock and Amarillo, where whiskey is poured at the kitchen table and Friday nights belong to football, My Brothers' Keeper is a crime novel about two brothers and an old debt someone came a long way to collect.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HP6KLJH1
• ISBN13: 9798164791193
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"