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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Zachary Goldman, Private Investigator, is flawed with a capital F.Shattered by the tragedies of his own life, he will somehow still manage to pick himself up and dig just a little bit deeper than anyone else to find the vital clues.Maybe being broken makes it easier for others who have faced tragedy to trust him. Walk with Zachary as he solves four cases that will stretch his abilities to the limit.Even with his own life in shambles, Zachary...

WHEN IT RAINS, IT POURSNova is a free man. Having just walked away as a non-sanctioned hit man for the U.S. government, he's purchased a classic Mustang to drive across the country. But when his car breaks down in the middle of the Nevada desert, Nova ends up in the small town of Parrot Spur. There's something strange about Parrot Spur. Something ... off. Maybe it's the fact the town is full of ex-servicemen. Maybe it's the fact the abandoned mine might not be abandoned. Maybe it’s...

SHE WAS THE PERFECT NEIGHBOUR. UNTIL SHE WASN'T.Readers are gripped by THE STRANGER NEXT DOOR!'Have a clear diary before you start . . . you won't want to stop!' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Twist, after twist, after twist. I was HOOKED!!' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Absolutely hooked from the get-go' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐_________________When Matt and Imogen move out of the city, they're h...

Don't miss THE SHRINE, the brand new Detective's Daughter mystery - available now'A class above' IAN RANKIN.Forty years ago, in the dark of the playground, two children's lives were changed for ever.The case of six-year-old Sarah Ferris, killed in an empty playground, haunted Hammersmith police for decades. Not just because the victim would never see her seventh birthday. But because solving the case meant arresting another child on ...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE NEW CHAPTERGoodReads Choice Awards Semifinalist"Moving . . . a plot that surprises and devastates."—New York Times Book Review"A masterful epic."—People magazine"Mesmerizing . . . The Women in the Castle stands tall among the literature that reveals new truths about one of history’s most tragic eras."—USA TodayThree women, haunted by the past and the secrets they holdSet at the end of...

Don’t miss the thrilling new novel from Kate Quinn, The Briar Club“The reigning queen of historical fiction” — Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth AvenueThe New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II historical fiction novel of three female code br...