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Tortured and mutilated, the witches of Salem went screaming to their deaths. For almost 300 years their souls writhed in exquisite agony, helpless to act. Then the boy came. He was young, trusting...receptive to their boundless hatred; an empty vessel waiting to be filled with the burning poison of their revenge. Like a plague rat, he carried their contagion from victim to victim, infecting minds, corrupting bodies, and condemning souls to everlasting torment. Beware his luminous green eyes, for they radiate sickness and death, beware this foul...child of Salem....

After his family is brutally murdered by deranged thugs, Ryne Lanark decides to channel his violent rage constructively. He leaves his acting career behind, and signs on as a Chicago city cop. Using his mastery of disguise and calculating perseverance, Lanark winds his way through the seamy netherworld of drug dealers and killers. A tortured loner, a relentless crusader, Lt. Lanark is the ultimate equalizer.

The killer liked to watch them drown. First they gasped for breath. Then they thrashed around. Why did they even bother to struggle? They all ended up the same; floating dead in the water. Dr. Dean Grant, head of Criminal Forensic Medicine, was Chicago's expert on serial killings. Corpses were his business. But Grant's skills, cunning, and experience may not be enough to stop a psychopath from turning the city into his own private drowning pool.

Thrice Told Tales is a collection of assorted short stories by Robert W. Walker. Between each story, the author makes comments on the purpose and the crafting of his work. The stories span the emotions from terror to laughter, intrigue to suspense, the supernatural and the frightfulness of reality. Walker's work might be called "reality-based" horror, but he is also adept at police procedural and mystery. This collection of tales is a conglomeration of sheer fun and entertainment and meant as such.

Andover is a quiet town. No screams disturb its slumber, although perhaps they should - when the bones of the dead are taken form their graces, and the residents begin to disappear…But who could guess that behind the walls of a local hospital, a cult of inhuman bloodsuckers lurk and feed and fiendishly devise a new defense against their ancient weakness? When modern medicine teams with undead evil, only one man can stop it. Abraham Stroud is many things: archeologist, psychic, and detective.

There is a legend of the Serpent God... All that remains of its victims is charred human ash - as if she'd been torched from within. What looks like a freak accident to others, Detective Eric Bannon and medical examiner Angelica Hunter have seen before, and they have chased the monster that has spawned in India from where mankind had first encountered its deadly force. They are now truly the only two human beings who have had experience with the Kundalini snake god of ancient India.

When murder meets Cuba's first female Lieutenant Detective, Qui Aguilera, she is faced with a triple homicide. Three dead medical personnel - two Americans and a Canadian female are fished from the Cuba Blue waters surrounding this tropical paradise. Who killed the visiting doctors and why has her captain, who wishes her to fail miserably, so anxious to turn this case over to Qui - if not to see her fail.

At seventeen, Annie Hope Brown is a woman in 1859 when she conspires against the US government with her infamous father, John Brown, and his Kansas Raiders. These men are anti-slavery forces Annie helps prepare to pull off the first home-grown terrorist attack in the US. The attack on the US Armory at Harpers Ferry as seen through the eyes of a love-struck, idealist young lady who abhors slavery and falls in love with her father's right hand man, John Kagi.

Kat pulls Marcus from his suicidal depression and his soon-to-be demolished apartment building - only to make him face his past. She leads him on a deadly hunt deep into the blackest forest in the Red Earth State. Near the Georgia-Tennessee border in the breathtaking Blue Ridge countryside, the pair watch a safe haven become their death trap. They seek to destroy a cave-dwelling ex-marine and murderer, a monster whose instincts and military training have allowed him to survive in the wilderness for four years.

When his entire family was brutally slaughtered, actor Ryne Lanark left the stage to become a cop, swearing revenge on the sadistic scum responsible. Using his mastery of disguise to head up Chicago P.D.'S elite DECOY squad, the relentless crusader has embarked of his own personal war of retribution. A tortured loner, a ruthless executioner, Ryne Lanark is on the streets - overstepping the boundaries of the law to mete out his own explosive brand of urban justice.

Each of eight short stories based on the characters from the author's eight continuing series make up a Party of 8. These characters are featured respectively in my Instinct Series, the Edge Series, the Dean Grant ME Series, the Decoy Series, the City Series, the PSI Series, the Bloodscreams Series, and the Flesh Wars Series. The stories then move from crime novels and medical examiners and police and serial killers to historical suspense to psychics, urban fantasy and strictly horror tales.

DR. JESSICA CORAN A brilliant and determined FBI medical examiner, she was an expert student of the criminal mind who thought she could face anything. That was before Wisconsin. Before she saw one of his victims... THE VAMPIRE KILLER The FBI agent had a special code name for his unusual method of torture: Tort 9, the draining of the victims blood. The newspapers called him the Vampire-Killer. But his own twisted love letters were signed "Teach"... and were addressed to the one woman he wanted most of all: His hunter, his prey, Dr. Jessica Coran.

To a killer, murder is a game. To the victims, death is all too real. But when a popular computer game inspires a virtual crime wave, a female police psychiatrist must enlist a former police detective to help her cross the edge between games and reality, genius and insanity, life and death… Cutting Edge …is the shattering new thriller introducing officer Lucas Stonecoat and psychiatrist Meredyth Sanger.

Pearl’s perfect life was an illusion. After uncovering her husband’s multiple affairs, their divorce is complicated when their eight-year-old son is abducted. Desperate to save her only child, Pearl will do the unthinkable to find him.

Texas Cherokee Detective Lucas Stonecoat is back, and with help from FBI profilers and police shrink Meredyth Sanger, now Lucas' wife, he is on the trail of a serial killer the press calls The Baby Slayer. It is a grisly if apt name given the killer. Lucas and his task force are soon on the track of the pedophile murdering monster, possibly the worst excuse for humanity that Lucas has ever come across. But all the systems of law enforcement have become obstacles to catching and keeping this particular suspect behind bars.

Christians are often thought of as defending only their own religious interests in the public square. They are viewed as worrying exclusively about the erosion of their freedom to assemble and to follow their convictions, while not seeming as concerned about publicly defending the rights of Muslims, Hindus, Jews, and atheists to do the same. Andrew T. Walker, an emerging Southern Baptist public theologian, argues for a robust Christian ethic of religious liberty that helps the church defend religious freedom for everyone in a pluralistic society.

An EMP strike shatters the nation. Keith flees biker gangs, his daughter is trapped in mall rubble, and his wife fights through burning streets. Their only hope is Eddie’s off-grid mountain homestead. Survival, family, and chaos collide in this explosive thriller.

Focused. Strategic. NBE Ready.The Prep Room is the go-to podcast for funeral service students and graduates preparing for the National Board Exam (NBE). Hosted by funeral director, embalmer, and educator Cody Walker, and produced by Robert Register, co-founders of NBE Wizard, each episode features practical study tips, focused content breakdowns, and real stories from professionals who’ve passed the exam.Whether you're studying Arts or Sciences, you'll hear strategies that work, insights from the field, and weekly motivation to help you move from student to licensed professional — one ...

Dr. Jessica Coran ist eine Expertin, wenn es darum geht, in die Gedankenwelt von Mördern und Gewaltverbrechern einzudringen. Als Gerichtsmedizinerin beim FBI glaubte sie, bereits alles gesehen zu haben – bis zu jenem Tag in Wisconsin. Als sie das Erste seiner Opfer sah … Der Vampirkiller von Wisconsin Er foltert seine Opfer auf besonders bestialische Weise – indem er sie vollständig ausbluten lässt. Die Zeitungen nennen ihn bereits den Vampir-Killer.

The Ghost Gun is held by a dead Cherokee hunter-trapper, hung at Fort Smith, Arkansas; hung in a public forum, but the real Tsali Goingback is offered a deal by Judge Caleb Dawes. Work for him, go back to Tsali's outlaw friends in Indian Territory, and bring in those wanted dead or alive. He has little choice--be the next no-account Indian to publicly hang or become Dawes eyes, ears, and ghost gun in neighboring Indian Territory, a hive of the worst villainy & scum the world has ever seen.