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Homicide detective Michael Callahan has learned to desensitize the death he sees every day, but it’s about to get personal. A serial killer, who calls himself Murmur, is hunting the streets for “fireflies to send home before God cleanses the world.” Michael knows the victims all too well…he’s seen them die in his dreams from the killer’s eyes. When Murmur begins to taunt Michael, he questions how close he really is to the case. Could he be Murmur?

A number of years ago, I heard some stories about ranch and Western life I thought were among the funniest anecdotes I had ever heard. It started a quest. Over a 10-year span, I interviewed 150 cowboys, ranchers, and others, mostly in Texas and Nebraska. The result is Cowboys, Ranchers, and Assorted Characters: True Tales from the New West. It's the best of the best anecdotes from those encounters.

The last thing Jeremy Staymour remembers is the crack of gunfire, the rush of pain, and the blinding darkness that follows. A drive-by shooting leaves him lying unconscious, his life hanging by a thread. Now, no one knows if he’ll ever wake up, or if he does, what kind of life will await him.

The Caldwells have one goal in life: to be left alone. They’ve been living on the backwater planet of C’dar for years, smuggling and scavenging their way to a comfortable life on their homestead. But you know the saying about all good things - they come to an end. The civilization wasn’t content with falling apart the first time and has finally caught wind of the ol’ boys and girls on their little rock in the middle of nowhere.

The first cattle drive of the season leaves Texas for Abilene, Kansas along the Chisholm Trail, but unforeseen terrors lay hidden in the natural beauty of the land. In the heart of Indian Territory lies the sleepy town of Duncan, a friendly respite from the dusty land. But something lurks in the untamed West - a powerful creature that hunts to satiate its horrifying hunger. The land will run red with blood, and only Karl Beck has a chance against this ancient evil.

Tiny yet prospering Benficklin, Texas, wants a clean, respectable town marshal to safeguard their pristine community from the kind of riffraff that turned neighboring Santa Angela into a raucous string of blood-spattered saloons and bawdy sporting houses. Former Texas Ranger Emmett Strong seems to be just the man Benficklin’s town fathers are looking for. Reputations aside, Benficklin - not Santa Angela - is the town with the next scandal on its hands, when the ravaged body of a young, murdered Mexican girl is found lying in the middle of Main Street.

During the winter and spring of 1990, three Spokane area women were found dead, their bodies dumped along the Spokane River.

George Alwood III is a spoiled and rich young man who heads west to become a mountain man in 1825. Taken under wing by two experienced old mountain men, George Alwood the third becomes Bear Killer the mountain man. After a short visit with Shoshoni Indians, Bear Killer finds himself with an unwanted wife and though he resist's, he eventually learns to love her. A cold and hard winter in the mountains brings him closer to his bride, as he learns to live as a mountain man, and just before spring she informs him a child will soon come.

In 1876 the seemingly impossible happened in San Antonio, Texas - Emmett Strong, a prodigy of a pistolero, accidentally shot his own young wife in a showdown gone awry. Five years later, death again visits Emmett's family, and now - want to or not - he's going to have to overcome his reluctance to draw his six-gun if he's to catch and bring to justice the crazed gunman who murdered his brother.

Step into the enchanting world of "Those Gigantic Giants and the Tiny Village," where the bonds of friendship transcend size and strength. In this captivating children's book, listeners are transported to the serene countryside village of Blossomville, nestled beneath ancient trees and surrounded by rolling meadows.

The summer of 1976 in Huntsville, Arkansas, was supposed to be unforgettable—for all the right reasons. For Jake and his tight-knit group of friends, it marked their first true taste of freedom: a week-long camping trip deep in the uncharted wilderness of the Ozark Mountains. The boys expected adventure, laughter, and maybe a few scares from the campfire stories. What they didn’t expect was the terror that would emerge from the shadows of the forest.

The hit man Gordon Carney, his wife Karen, who is a frustrated writer trying to break into print, and their son Brady move into a Spanish-style bungalow in the Hollywood Hills where they experience inexplicable and chilling events. Becoming paranoid Karen suspects the other family members of plotting against her. She comes to believe the house is driving them crazy because it’s haunted. She hires a medium, who Gordon thinks is a quack, to exorcise the house.

Mystery writer Allen Crane hasn't written a single word in over three years - not since the death of his wife. His publisher suggests a two-week stay in York Beach, Maine. Maybe that's just what Allen needs to snap out of his writer's block and return to the top of the best seller's list. hinking his publisher is probably right, Allen packs up, grabs his dog, Frankie, and heads east. It doesn't take long at all for Allen to discover that the sleepy little town of York Beach might not be so sleepy after all.

During the day, Dr. Frankenstein works innocently in his laboratory to contribute his fair share of knowledge to society. But at night, he works endlessly in his secret laboratory located in the cellar with his cousin (Martin), perfecting Abellio, a hideous monster pieced together by dead bodies. Dr. Frankenstein has grown obsessed with studying information on the Neuralink Corporation, which is a neurotechnology company founded by Elon Musk and others, developing implantable brain - machine interfaces (BMIs).

This is the Tennessee Horror Stories complete collection featuring all stories from book one, Motel on Murder Mountain, and book two, Elsa, the Devil Herself. Consisting of five uniquely connected short stories that cover multiple genres including giallo, horror, noir, supernatural, slasher, crime/mystery, detective and hicksploitation. Loosely based on actual locations with characters created by Carl E. Miller and Charles E. Miller. These stories will take you down a dark journey, following colorful characters in two very strange actual Tennessee towns.

Buck lost his wife to pneumonia and his father to murder, within a few short months of each other. When he decides to crawl out of his mourning, he stops by to visit his friend, Dr. Elliott Larkin, and is introduced to Callie Mae Weathers and her friend, Lilac Indigo Preston. Buck had no idea his life would change so drastically within four short days! When he hires the Snow Detective Agency to help find his father's killer, Reed and Deacon Snow uncover information that could change all their lives.

For years, the public believed The Morning Star Killer was dead. Special agent James Beamer and retired agent Reid Hoffman knew different. They searched the shadows for the notorious serial killer, but he was always one step ahead. With his need to bring the world to an end, The Plague Vendor presents the perfect smokescreen to allow The Morning Star Killer step out of the shadows and play his endgame.

Keith Hamilton, the son of a wealthy tobacco plantation owner, is ordered to marry a thoroughly disagreeable woman in Rutger’s Creek - or his sister will not be allowed to marry her sweetheart. Something must be done. His best alternative is to get a Mail Order Bride. Anyone is better than Beatrice Charlston. Anyone. Colette Boisselot is newly arrived to America from France. After her fiancé deserts her, she’s impoverished, destitute, and out of options. She signs up to become a Mail Order Bride.

Cities will fall. Death to all. Life is good for Michael Callahan. He’s retired from the force and now spends his days drinking imaginary tea with his daughter while his wife stars in a hit television series. When dreams of the serial killer, Murmur, ended, Michael buried those memories along with the secrets from his past. But a phone call from an old friend reminds him that the nightmare isn't over. And it's about to get worse. The Morning Star Killer has resurfaced after years of dormancy.

While rounding up strays on a cattle drive, a young wrangler happens upon a lone covered wagon far from the main trails. In it, Whit Reed finds a woman who is near death, stricken by the dreaded disease that killed his parents and nearly took his own life when he was a boy: yellow fever! His next decision changes his life forever, leading to a bitter betrayal and deadly fights with murderous rustlers and other treacherous outlaws. He soon faces his biggest fear of all: falling under the spell of a different fever entirely...and it might be incurable.