All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Beth Grant, ranked

Judge Gibbs’ young wife performed in a mermaid show until she nearly lost her life to an alligator, after which she abruptly retired from the business. Kathy Baker, a comely spitfire public defender, comes to the town on a case and becomes a romantic target for the local sheriff, as well as a potential conquest for the always lustful judge.

Otis Bad Blake is a 57-year-old alcoholic singer-songwriter who was once a country music star. In doing so, he lets himself be pushed into renewing a professional relationship with Tommy Sweet, a popular and successful country music star he once mentored, and plays as the opening act at one of his concerts, despite his initial balking and wounded pride at being the opening act to his former student.

Diagnosed with a mental illness halfway through his senior year of high school, a witty, introspective teen struggles to keep it a secret while falling in love with a brilliant classmate who inspires him to not be defined by his condition.

Navajo tribal policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee are back for a third thrilling mystery case. An archaeologist turned pottery poacher thinks she has cracked the secret of the vanished Anasazi culture, when she herself vanishes. As other poachers start dropping dead, Leaphorn and Chee must piece together a case as complicated as the mysteriously decorated pots that seem to motivate the killer.

Jim Morris is the son of a career Navy man, who moves the family from Hollywood, Florida to Big Lake, Texas, in order to maintain job security. Jim is shown to be a very skilled pitcher, though his father disapproves of Jim’s dream of making it to Major League Baseball. It is later mentioned that the town to which Jim’s family moved, Big Lake, has lost its love for baseball, preferring football instead.

A perceptive young neurosurgeon learns that she is the improbable heir of a witch lineage. She must battle with a terrible force that has followed her family for many generations as she wrestles with her newly discovered skills.

A perceptive young neurosurgeon learns that she is the improbable heir of a witch lineage. She must battle with a terrible force that has followed her family for many generations as she wrestles with her newly discovered skills.

A perceptive young neurosurgeon learns that she is the improbable heir of a witch lineage. She must battle with a terrible force that has followed her family for many generations as she wrestles with her newly discovered skills.

Augusten Burroughs’ mother, Deirdre, who wishes to become a famous poet, suffers from severe mood swings and erratic behavior. Augusten’s alcoholic father, Norman, proves to be of no help. By the time he is a teenager, Augusten no longer feels safe in his own house. Deirdre loudly claims that Norman is the reason for her unhappiness, and that he desires to kill her.

An author of highbrow literary novels, Thad Beaumont, is better known for the bestselling murder mystery suspense-thrillers he writes under the pen name George Stark. However, Stark has mysteriously become a physical entity and begins terrorizing Beaumont’s family and friends after he emerges from the grave.