Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of the Year: 2014 FinalistIPPY Awards: 2015 Bronze MedalistWhen two men meet in the Virginia state penitentiary in a maximum security visitation room on May 5, 1968, they have only one thing in common: they both want their lives back. On one side of a glass divider sits Kenneth Deatherage, who was sentenced to death for the brutal rape and murder of a young woman. The jury agreed with the prosecutor’s closing argument: that all...

On a cold February morning in 1967, Sheriff Coleman Grundy finds Betty Lou Mundy dead in her front yard and her husband on the porch with the gun that killed her. It looks like a classic case of revenge on a cheating wife.Until the next murder.And the next.As Cole desperately searches for leads, he’s forced to come to grips with his own wife’s unsolved murder three years earlier, and in the process, he unearths long-buried secrets that change his life forever.

Shenandoah National Park, Thanksgiving Morning, 1967The morning mists are still rising in Whippoorwill Hollow when two aging friends find themselves staring at each other: one pointing a gun and the other beaten and chained to a tree. Their love for the same woman has buckled under the weight of a long-held secret -- until now.Out of the blue mountains of Virginia comes a 1960s American tale bound with the regrets people carry to their graves and a...

A story of love at first sight.From the author of Old Wounds to the Heart and The Judas Murders, a love story straight from the heart.Gracie Sandridge fell in love with Danny Harbaugh the first time she laid eyes on him. He was the most spectacular creature she’d ever seen, and she loved him from the seventh grade on. The trouble was that her daddy, the most steel-hearted, iron-willed man in southwestern Virginia, disappro...

Keeping the Promise is a collection of fifty stories about the author’s personal experiences. From encounters with interesting people like Muhammad Ali, President Clinton, Anna Anderson, who claimed to be the daughter of the Tsar of Russia, and Harold Swanson, Hollywood’s first literary agent, to coming to grips with life and death decisions, the trauma of aging, the heartbreak of dementia, the burden of representing a death row defendant, and the angst of enduring a pandemic, the...

Murder, They Wrote delivers four mysteries packed full of tension, suspense, and unforgettable characters, PLUS a bonus mystery, from the best-selling, award-winning authors of SkipJack Publishing.The Closing, the first Whippoorwill Hollow novel by Ken Oder, is a 2014 Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards FinalistDeadly Thyme by R. L. Nolen is a riveting thriller set in a deceptively sleepy seaside village.Pennies from Burger Heaven...