A twisting debut novel of murder and dark family secrets from a riveting new voice in crime fiction.A murdered woman. A grieving husband. And their son-a mentally handicapped adult with a history of violent outbursts. A very simple case. Or is it?Leo Hewitt, an Assistant DA once blamed for setting free a notorious child-killer, is eager to redeem himself with this intimate and grisly crime. As he digs below the surface he discovers more than he ever anticip...

From the critically acclaimed author of A Very Simple Crime, a chilling story of a young boy coming to grips with genuine evil.A red dirt road on a sweltering day. A car loses control, flips through the air. A woman crawls out, bloody and battered, staggers toward the boy on the bike, the one she swerved to avoid. But he runs away...Kyle is ten in the summer of 1976, and his world is all about secrets-secrets hidden in the maze of cornfields, in ca...

Is it true what they say? That we’re only as sick as our worst secret? Because Helen Patrice has one. Last night, she murdered a stranger…Helen is a recovering alcoholic struggling through a twelve-step program. Now it’s time to make amends for a crime she got away with—a hit and run accident that killed the wife of school teacher Edgar Woolrich. It’s time to face the consequences. When she finally gathers the courage to meet him, the ninth step begins with a lie—t...

"If you appreciate Southern fiction with a Gothic twist, check out Eula Shook. I love this story! Spot on voice and laugh out loud lines. I am now officially a Grant Jerkins fan." —Michael Morris, Author of Slow Way Home and Man in the Blue Moon  "Eula Shook is for adults only, and those who appreciate a good Southern Gothic. What a writer! He had me hanging on each and every word. What a story!" —Kathy L. Murphy, The Pulpwood Queens Book Club  "Jerkins’s storie...

One bullet equals one kill.For SWAT sniper Jake Denton, the bullet casings he saves as grim reminders of his "kills" are beginning to add up. His wife, his department-ordered psychiatrist, and even Jake himself are all beginning to question just how these sanctioned kills are affecting his mental health. Nobody wants him to end up like Lee Staley, his mentor and ex-partner---now out on permanent psych leave, drinking himself to death, and the prime suspect in a series of shootings t...