Deep River Blues, by Tony Ray Morris
“With the perception of a poet and the knack of a novelist, Tony Ray Morris joins the ranks of some of the finest crime fiction writers. In turn, part James Lee Burke, Tennessee Williams, and William Faulkner, Deep River Blues will pull you under and have you gasping for breath.” — Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire Mysteries, basis for the Netflix drama Longmire
When the body of a young girl washes up on the shores of the French Broad River, Cord McRae, newly elected sheriff of Acre County, Tennessee, suspects her death might be connected to the Glad Earth Farm, a commune just outside the small town of Falston. Guru/leader Levon Gladson and a group of a hundred and twenty-five followers have moved into an old farm that butts up to the Smokies, and Cord suspects they may be growing something more profitable than sorghum cane up in the hills. The mystery’s complicated by Cord’s investigation into a second recent murder, of an Afghan vet; the growing power of a local “hillbilly” mafia operated by the wily Thorn Reevers; and Cord’s own marriage, which is teetering on the edge of divorce over past violence and his on-again, off-again love affair with liquor. With echoes of WINTER’S BONE and the novels of James Lee Burke, DEEP RIVER BLUES will be a worthwhile addition to the regional crime thriller genre.
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Marina Konyeshna Thrillers, by Heather Harlen
Hope You Guess My Name
“Ms. Harlen captures the heartbeat (and cholesterol) of Northeastern Pennsylvania in her expertly plotted thriller. I loved the reluctant gumshoe—spunky and fallible Marina Konyeshna—with her weakness for pocketbooks and shoes, and went to sleep wondering what on earth she could get herself—and her family and friends—into next.” – Sara Pritchard, author of Help Wanted: Female
“A thriller novel unlike any other … with healthy doses of humor, which also makes it a good choice for a vacation read.” — The Citizens’ Voice, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
There’s no place like home…especially when it’s the center of a horrific criminal enterprise. Event planner Marina Konyeshna is a tomboy in peep toe pumps who can plan both elegant soirees and adrenaline-pumping skydiving birthday parties. Unfortunately, she’s crashing on the sofa bed in her mom’s basement, and her career at Prestige Events is veering toward disaster. To make matters worse, Marina discovers the corpse of a girl on the banks of the Susquehanna River, but is forced into silence.
Enter a mysterious and gorgeous client from Turkey. Arman Ocalan, a wealthy construction company owner, takes her out, and sparks fly; but Marina’s boss’s boyfriend warns her to stay away from Arman and his “connections,” leaving her confused. When Arman invites her to form a team for an elite geocaching event, though, she can’t pass up the prize money. As their team’s adventures unfold, the fates of six strangers depend on Marina. If plucky heroines had their own secret society, Marina Konyeshna, Stephanie Plum and Bridget Jones would all know the handshake. Available in bookstores and online.
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Shame, Shame, I Know Your Name
You can’t Keep Marina Down…
It’s been a few months since small-town event planner Marina Konyeshna survived a pursuit by international human traffickers, then a mine collapse. Marina’s friends have questioned the empty whipped-cream vodka bottles and the new tattoo, but she thinks they’re overreacting. Her love life is perking up, but it’s not clear how long her new guy will wait on the sidelines while she buries herself in work.
Still, Marina can’t pack her bags fast enough when a blast from the past offers her the opportunity to work with Russia’s richest woman. In Moscow, Marina’s at first thrilled to find herself taken for a glamorous pop singer who could be her twin. But she soon finds there’s more to being a celebrity than designer clothes and red-carpet events.
What follows is a return to the dark world of human trafficking, this time peering into the “red market,” where the human body is currency in ways she never imagined possible. and Marina must learn what it takes to survive – physically, mentally, emotionally, and culturally – thousands of miles from home. Available in bookstores and online.
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Tiller Galloway Diving Adventures, by David Poyer
“There can be no better writer of modern sea adventure around today.” — Clive Cussler
“Tiller Galloway is a terrific hero … A fast-paced, convincing thriller set in an unusual locale.” — Baltimore Sun
“Local atmosphere and a good knowledge of treacherous currents keep things on course.” — London Times
“Plot twists and turns that chart a tricky course through the deep waters of human need and greed.” — Ocala Star-Banner
“Compelling! One of the best mystery adventures about the sea I’ve encountered.” — Muncie Star
Hatteras Blue
The first Tiller Galloway adventure. On a moonless night in March, 1945, a Coast Guard destroyer sank a German U-Boat fifty miles off Hatteras Island, the Graveyard of the Atlantic. Many decades later, three mummified corpses, wrapped in a decaying rubber raft, come to light during excavation for a shopping development. Their reappearance unleashes a tide of powerful forces … neo-Nazis with a ruthless plan to corner the South American drug market, an Israeli intelligence operative, and a shadowy “historian” with his own, even more dangerous plan.
When Hatteras native, salvage diver, and ex-con Lyle “Tiller” Galloway III starts digging into the discovery, he’s forced by an island family cheated of their beachfront land to take on a dangerous partner. Together, he and Shadrach Aydlett will track down what actually happened in the Carolina sand hills so long before, what everyone’s really after … and finally, face down a ruthless killer in a gut-wrenching battle hundreds of feet beneath the surface.
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Now available as an audiobook! Read by Edison McDaniels.
Bahamas Blue
Salvage diver and ex-con Tiller Galloway vowed he’d never work for “The Baptist” again. Until the menacing kingpin makes him an offer he can’t refuse, sending him deep into the beautiful blue Caribbean to raise fifty tons of sunken cargo — a dive to the razor’s edge of death.
Caught in the cross-fire of a crazed underboss, hostile islanders, and a corrupt Bahamian government, Tiller and his Hatteras Island sidekick Shad Aydlett take on a nightmare of double crosses, as a scenario more sinister than he ever imagined begins to unfold.
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Louisiana Blue
On the run from a vengeful drug lord, salvage diver and ex-con Tiller Galloway and his partner, fellow Hatterasman Shadrach Aydlett, need to make themselves scarce.
Where better to lie low than under the murky, hazardous depths of the Gulf of Mexico? Industrial oilfield diving is the most dangerous work under the sea — which is why it brings big money. But there’s more on the floor of the Oil Patch than pipeline and drill rigs.
There’s also a fathomless corruption that may lead to an environmental apocalypse. Tiller can either look the other way, or dig his own watery grave …
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Down to a Sunless Sea
“White-knuckle diving scenes, constant action.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Claustrophobics beware! David Poyer’s suspenseful cave-diving novel, Down to a Sunless Sea, takes readers into water crevices, submerged limestone tunnels, cramped wormholes and subterranean hell holes that give suffocation new meaning … Vivid, believable descriptions … We can get the fear and adrenaline of cave-diving without ever leaving the dry safety of our favorite comfy chairs.” — Tallahassee Sun Democrat
Welcome to the most dangerous sport on earth: where cave divers step into murky Florida ponds and end up hundreds of feet below the ground, threading through the narrow passages of Swiss-cheese-like rock formations, heading down tunnels that may open into caverns of breathtaking beauty, or else suddenly collapse in rockfalls that crush out their air and their lives.
Open-water diver and ex-con Tiller Galloway has descended to this watery underworld to find out why an old friend died young — and take one last shot at being a father, a lover, and a friend. But with a woman opening up her heart, and a deadly conspiracy closing in around him, Galloway must navigate between lies told above ground and truths hidden in the depths … where a violent battle is about to explode.
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Hemlock County Novels, by David Poyer
“A stunning period tale in which the oft-forgotten essence of the American dream is visible in every chapter.” — Publisher’s Weekly, starred review
“Dramatic and suspenseful, full of despair and hope.” — Booklist, starred review
“The prizefight and deer hunt sequences are worthy of Jack London” — Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
“Poyer, who grew up in Bradford, has been compared to Steinbeck, with good cause.” — Pittsburgh Post- Gazette
“Dark and gritty as a gravel road.” — Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
“Poyer knows what he is writing about.” — New York Times Book Review
The Dead of Winter
“It was on that first day of the hunt, an hour after dawn, that the old man found the body of the boy.” The first Hemlock County novel opens during deer season in remote Northwestern Pennsylvania.
Paul Michelson is searching for the killer who shot his son, then walked away, letting him bleed to death in the snow. Teresa Del Rosario is searching for Michelson, fighting her growing fear he has murder in mind. Retired hunter and oilfield worker W. T. Halvorsen takes on one last quest after Michelson begins killing hunters at random in the winter woods. An epic tale of justice and survival.
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Winter in the Heart
Greed, corruption, and violence in remote Hemlock County, Pennsylvania. Dragged into a courtroom in shackles, old W. T. “Racks” Halvorsen must convince a jury that everything they believe about their government and their town’s chief employer is a lie.
A tale of organized crime, nursing home scams, teenage suicide, toxic waste dumping, and of one honest man’s fight for the truth.
See www.poyer.com to order autographed copies of the first edition hardcover.
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As the Wolf Loves Winter
In the old days, wolves roamed Hemlock County. Then the earth was raped and left to die. Now these deserted hills are being haunted by new atrocities. What beast or man is leaving frozen, mangled bodies in the woods?
Three unlikely heroes will set out to find the answer: “Racks” Halvorsen, retired oil worker and ex-hunter; Becky Benning, a twelve-year-old who knows only she can save her dying brother — with magic; and Leah Friedman, a New York doctor who suspects the truth behind the killings.
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Thunder on the Mountain
In the depths of the Depression, young boxer and oilwell shooter W. T. “Red” Halvorsen starts a strike in the Pennsylvania oilfields after a refinery disaster exposes the Thunder Oil Company’s neglect of workers’ safety.
As the violence escalates, Halvorsen, CIO organizer and secret Communist Doris Gurley Golden, strikebreaker Pearl McYeo, and Thunder Oil owner Daniel Thunner battle to decide the fate of Hemlock County — and whether the bloodshed there will ignite a revolution that will shake all America.
See www.poyer.com to order autographed copies of the first edition hardcover.
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The Hill, by David Poyer
Set during the 1960s in a small town, The Hill swirls high school sports, young lust, and a forbidden student-teacher affair into a hurricane that ravages a community. Though occasionally awkward, it was Poyer’s first complete novel, written as an experiment at the beginning of his career. It prefigured characters, settings, and the themes of ethical choice and personal quandaries he would develop through the many books that followed: the later Hemlock County novels, set in the same remote area of Pennsylvania, the widely popular Dan Lenson novels, the Tiller Galloway diving adventures, and the Civil War at Sea trilogy, along with scores of short stories and novellas.
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