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A sinister being called Night and her panther-like Harriers stalk their quarry, a man known only as Arron. Arron seeks refuge within an office building, a place Night cannot go, for it’s part of the civilized world, and she’s a creature of the Wild. To flush Arron out, she creates Blight, a reality-warping field that slowly transforms the building and its occupants in horrible and deadly ways. But unknown to Night, while she waits for the Blight to do its work, a group of survivors from a previous attempt to capture Arron are coming for her. The hunter is now the hunted.
In Echo Hill, Ohio, the dead begin to reappear, manifesting in various forms, from classic ghosts and poltergeists, to physical undead and bizarre apparitions for which there is no name. These malign spirits attack the living, tormenting and ultimately killing them in order to add more recruits to their spectral ranks.
A group of survivors come together after the initial attack, all plagued by different ghostly apparitions of their own. Can they make it out of Echo Hill alive? And if so, will they still be sane? Or will they die and join the ranks of the vengeful dead?
Blurbs:
“Tim Waggoner excels in building up a surreal sense of dread, blurring the boundaries between otherworldly horror and everyday tragedy with unnerving finesse.” —City Nomads
“Tim Waggoner manages to meld surreal imagery and events with strong character work and an immersive point of view, resulting in work that shocks you on the surface and unsettles you right down to your bones.” — FEARnet
The official novelization of the highly anticipated sequel to 2018’s Halloween, starring Jamie Lee Curtis.
Minutes after Laurie Strode, her daughter Karen, and granddaughter Allyson left masked monster Michael Myers caged and burning in Laurie’s basement, Laurie is rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, believing she finally killed her lifelong tormentor.
But when Michael manages to free himself from Laurie’s trap, his ritual bloodbath resumes. As Laurie fights her pain and prepares to defend herself against him, she inspires all of Haddonfield to rise up against their unstoppable monster. But as a group of other survivors of Michael’s first rampage decide to take matters into their own hands, a vigilante mob forms that sets out to hunt Michael down. Evil dies tonight.
Lorelei Palumbo is harassed by a sinister group calling themselves The Cabal. They accuse her of having committed unspeakable crimes in the past, and now she must pay. The Cabal begins taking her life apart one piece at a time – her job, her health, the people she loves – and she must try to figure out what The Cabal thinks she’s done if she’s to have any hope of answering their charges and salvaging her life.
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Throughout her life, Angie has lost loved ones to stupid, meaningless deaths. As an adult she beings researching urban legends, hoping to find proof that something exists beyond our mundane world. Is there magic? Is there existence beyond this life? Is there any kind of meaning to it all — even if that meaning is a dark one? In the end, Angie will get her answer, and she'll learn that reality isn't just darker than she thinks: It's some kind of monster.
In Rockridge, Ohio, a sinister family moves into a sleepy cul de sac. The Eldreds feed on the negative emotions of humans, creating nightmarish realms within their house to entrap their prey. Neighbors are lured into the Eldreds’ home and faced with challenges designed to heighten their darkest emotions so their inhuman captors can feed and feed well. If the humans are to have any hope of survival, they’ll have to learn to overcome their prejudices and resentments toward one another and work together. But which will prove more deadly in the end, the Eldred . . . or each other?
What are you willing to do, what are you willing to become, to save someone you love?
Sierra Sowell’s dead brother Jeffrey is resurrected by a mysterious man known only as Corliss. Corliss also transforms four people in Sierra’s life into inhuman monsters determined to kill her. Sierra and Jeffrey’s boyfriend Marc work to discover the reason for her brother’s return to life while struggling to survive attacks by this monstrous quartet.
Corliss gives Sierra a chance to make Jeffrey’s resurrection permanent – if she makes a dreadful bargain. Can she do what it will take to save her brother, no matter how much blood is shed along the way?
The Mass, an island-sized creature formed entirely of mutated blood cells, has drifted across the world’s oceans for millions of years. It uses sharks – the most efficient predators the planet has ever produced – as extensions of itself to gather food. For the most part, the Mass and its Hunters have avoided contact with the human race, but now it’s entered the waters off Bridgewater, Texas, where a film crew is busy shooting a low-budget horror film called Devourer of the Deep. The Mass is about to discover something called human imagination, and the humans are about to learn that battling a monster in real life is a little harder than fighting one on screen.
Jayce's 20-year-old daughter, Emory, is missing, lost in a dark, dangerous realm called Shadow that exists alongside our own reality. An enigmatic woman named Nicola guides Jayce through this bizarre world, and together they search for Emory, facing deadly dog-eaters, crazed killers, homicidal sex toys, and — worst of all — a monstrous being known as the Harvest Man. But no matter what Shadow throws at him, Jayce won’t stop. He'll do whatever it takes to find his daughter, even if it means becoming a worse monster than the things that are trying to stop him.
"Darkly surreal, deeply disturbing... and the Pink Devil is still giving me nightmares." — F.Paul Wilson - author of The Repairman Jack series
"Hell is other people," Jean-Paul Sartre tells us. "Especially the one we see in the mirror," implicitly says Tim Waggoner. Both give us the theme of Waggoner's splendid Dark and Distant Voices. Our children we don't quite recognize, colleagues not all that collegial, ghosts who silently speak the Truth ... They're all here and more in Waggoner's brilliant story collection. – Mort Castle, author of Strangers
"This is every card in the horror deck, played by someone who knows the game better than most of us ever will." – Stephen Graham Jones, author of Mongrels
They come to you at night.
The voices.
Spinning tales of blasphemous wonder, terrible wisdom, and unspeakable truth.
You try to shut them out, but you can’t.
For the voices you thought were coming from so far away come from inside you.
And they won’t stop screaming.
Ever.
Nineteen stories of the bizarre and fantastic from the mind of Bram Stoker Award-winning author Tim Waggoner, “horror fiction’s leading surrealist” (Cemetery Dance Magazine).
They glide through dark waters, sleek and silent as death itself. Ancient predators with only two desires – to feed and reproduce. They’ve traveled to the resort island of Las Dagas to do both, and the guests make tempting meals. The humans are on land, though, out of reach. But the resort’s main feature is an intricate canal system . . .
The Cemetery Dance Select series invites some of our favorite authors to spotlight a sampling of their own short fiction: award-winners, stories they consider their best or that had the most impact on their career—or neglected favorites they feel deserve a second look.
Long-time fans will enjoy revisiting some classic tales. New readers will find this series a handy introduction to each author’s best work.
Each Cemetery Dance Select mini-collection includes an exclusive Afterword where the author explains the reasoning behind each selection, and provides insights into the writing of each story.
The stories Tim Waggoner has chosen for this collection are:
For Joan Lantz, it starts with a dream of a death-cult’s mass suicide in the jungle of Suriname thirty years ago, followed by the discovery of a hidden basement in her new house, where heavy metal music echoes on humid tropical air.
For Kevin Benecke, long-suffering employee of a mysterious organization known simply as Maintenance, it starts with the violent death of his co-worker at the hands of a madman who tells him, The Big Dark is coming for you.
Long-dead cult leader and former rock star Mark Maegarr has returned from beyond the grave, and Joan and Kevin have front-row seats to his apocalyptic comeback. Maegarr’s waited decades to finish what he started, and this time no one will stop him from putting on a killer show designed to hasten the universe’s end.
It’s Todd and Heather’s twenty-first anniversary. A blizzard rages outside their home, but it’s far colder inside. Their marriage is falling apart, the love they once shared gone, in its place only bitter resentment. As the night wears on, strange things start to happen in their house—bad things. If they can work together, they might find a way to survive until morning…but only if they don’t open the Winter Box.
A new drug — Shut-Eye — has been developed in the dreamland, and smuggled into our world. It’s addictive, and dangerous, and Shadow Watch agents Audra and Mr Jinx are on the case, preparing new recruits to deal with the problem.
Meanwhile, a wave of ancient, bodiless Incubi are entering the dreams of humans in an attempt to possess them and live new lives. Only the criminally insane would ever risk a confrontation with them.
All Dan wanted was to be a good husband and father, to provide for his wife and daughter, to keep them fed, warm, and safe. But then the malevolent godlike beings called the Masters arrived, and their darkness spread across the world, reshaping it into a twisted realm of savagery and madness. In exchange for his family's protection, Dan now serves one of these alien gods, obtaining human sacrifices to feed his Master's eternal hunger.
Like so many people since the world changed, Alice has had to do unspeakable things to survive. Unfortunately for her, she's Dan's choice for his next sacrifice. Now Dan drives along the shattered remnants of an old-world highway, headed for his Master's lair, Alice bound hand and foot in the backseat of his car. Dan may not like what he's become, but he'll do whatever it takes to protect his loved ones. Alice doesn't intend to relinquish her life so easily, though, and she plans to escape, no matter the cost.
But in the World After, everything—animals, plants, even the land itself—has become a predator, and the journey to the Master's lair is an almost guaranteed suicide run. But Dan won't give up, and he won't stop fighting. Not until he makes it through the Last Mile.
Lauren left her hometown of Trinity Falls years ago, with no intention of ever going back. Something bad happened to her in the woods there, so bad that she erased it from her memory—mostly. But now she’s returning for her father’s funeral. Returning to a place where robed men and women circle the town in an endless loop, tirelessly chanting, and where a primeval beast watches from behind the trees, hungering for more than flesh. Hungering for her.
In Trinity Falls Lauren’s grandmother Madelyn reigns supreme. Lauren escaped her once, but Madelyn won’t let her get away again. This time Madelyn intends to see it through to the bitter, bloody end. No matter what.
All three Nekropolis books as well as three Nekropolis short stories have been adapted by GraphicAudio as full-cast dramatizations, complete with music and sound effects. GraphicAudio: It’s a movie in your mind!
Meet Detective Audra and her partner Mr. Jinx, the clown who haunted her childhood dreams. Together they are working to protect the real world from Maelstrom, the world of dreams, but then things start to go sideways and they find themselves in disgrace.
It doesn’t take long for Audra and Jinx to realize that there is something sinister afoot, more dreams are escaping to the real world than ever before and it’s up to them to save both worlds before it’s too late.
In a world where zombies battle the living, which is more terrifying?
It was supposed to be fun. A chance to get away. An opportunity for two sisters to bond and — more importantly — for one sister to heal. And it was a small river, calm, slow-moving. Perfect for a leisurely canoe trip on a beautiful summer day.
But then they hear a baby crying on the shore, seemingly abandoned and overheated. Alie and Carin have to take her with them, right? They can’t just leave here there.
So a simple canoe trip becomes a rescue mission. But there’s something on the shore, hidden by the trees. Something that’s following them every step of the way — watching, waiting …
Around every bend, the river becomes stranger and more dangerous, until Alie isn’t sure what’s real and what isn’t. But no matter what the river throws at her, Alie’s determined to get the baby to safety. She’s already lost one child. She won’t lose another.
"I don’t know if I’ve ever read a story quite like Tim Waggoner’s DEEP LIKE THE RIVER. With its high emotional and metaphysical content and weird, surrealistic imagery, it reads a bit like Algernon Blackwood’s “The Willows” with Kafka collaborating and Carl Jung offering occasional advice. Or maybe it’s an adventure story that’s taken a sudden turn into The Twilight Zone. However you characterize Waggoner’s approach, the result is a fine piece of writing exploring the mysteries of a mind struggling with the guilt, pain, and terror of grief."
— Steve Rasnic Tem, author of Blood Kin
"A descent into the madness of a ruined psyche, 'Deep Like the River' puts Waggoner's talent for the eerie, desolate, and unpredictable in the spotlight. A must-read for those who like their horror tinged with desperation and guilt."
— Ronald Malfi, author of Cradle Lake
"Waggoner is a divine force in contemporary writing. Every new book of his I read takes me down dark and unruly passageways that bristles my fur and rattles my chains in ways that Ididn’t think possible. He's as much a stylist as he is a storyteller. DEEP LIKE THE RIVER is certain to usher you into the realm of the dynamically Begotten." –
— D. Harlan Wilson, author of Peckinpah: an Ultraviolent Romance
"Waggoner's new work is a new high water mark for him. Its chilling waters will take you into dark places...and weirdly enough you'll have a great time. Recommended. Wear a life jacket."
— John Shirley author of Doyle After Death
"The river down which the protagonist of Tim Waggoner's strange, startling novella canoes with her sister flows from southern Ohio to the heart of a very personal darkness. What begins as an exercise in sisterly bonding travels into something more surreal and sinister, as the landscape around Alie and her sister, Carin, reflects and refracts their innermost memories and fears. The river in these pages might be called the Little Clearwater, but as the sisters learn, it is tributary to streams with names such as Styx and Acheron. With Deep Like the River, Tim Waggoner fixes his gaze on the winding course of human pain and misery, charting the flow of sin and sadness from one generation to the next, and does not look away. It's fine, powerful work."
— John Langan, author of The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH
In a world where zombies battle the living, which is more terrifying?
David is trapped in a nightmarish version of his hometown, pursued by crimson-eyed demons and insane cannibals, with no idea how he got there. At every turn he’s taunted by a mysterious youth named Simon who knows far more than he lets on.
David’s sister, Kate, fights for survival in a word decimated by flesh-eating zombies—and her brother’s one of them. She’s determined to put a bullet in David’s brain to set him free.
Nicholas Kemp is a human monster, a born killer. But in a world ruled by the living dead, he’s no longer the most feared predator, and he’ll do whatever it takes to become that again. He plans to start by killing Kate.
Losing her unborn child and becoming a recent divorcee has left Merilee alone and unneeded. That is, until she meets a couple of unusual teenagers with dark obsidian eyes. Can they help her find the exit out of her hell?
This short story is available as an ebook for only 99 cents.
Visit a field where living corpses grow from the ground like pumpkins.
Sail across a sea of blood on a raft made from human skin.
Flee from a crazed mob determined to tear you limb from limb for the crime of realizing that you are God.
From Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author Tim Waggoner comes Bone Whispers, a new collection of distorted realities and surreal nightmares. With an introduction by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Michael A. Arnzen.
Collecting eighteen tales of mind-bending horror, including “Some Dark Hope,” “Skull Cathedral” and “The Great Ocean of Truth.”
Beneath the Bones
(new edition of novel formerly titled Cross County)
When Joanne Talon was a child, she disappeared for six days. She returned without any memory of where she'd been and what happened to her during that time. Not long after that, four people were viciously murdered without apparent motive by Carl "the Cutter" Coulter. Carl cut their throats and then carved a bizarre symbol—a triangle bisected by a bolt of lightning—into their abdomens.
Now Joanne is Sheriff of Cross County, Ohio, and Carl Coulter is dead, executed for his crimes eight years ago. But the killings begin again: throats slashed, Carl's signature symbol carved into the victims' stomachs. Joanne, with the help of reporter Dale Ramsey, must discover who's copying Carl's crimes and why. To make matters worse, the murders have drawn the attention of the sinister Cross family, who've ruled the county that bears their name for the last two centuries. The Crosses have their own reasons for wanting the murders stopped. Their land holds secrets . . . ancient, dark, and buried deep.
Reality and nightmare. Past and present. Sanity and madness. For Nathan Bennett, there is no longer any difference between them - not since the Harmony Society came into his life. Now, as his world begins to collapse around him, Nathan must travel the strange and dangerous roads of the Nightway in search of the Dark Angel - a being of great power that the Harmony Society desperately wished to control. But even if Nathan reaches the Angel first, what waits for him at the end of his long, dark road: salvation...damnation... Or both?
He finds her crying in the lobby of a movie theater and takes her home to his apartment, a strange, beautiful woman with no last name, a mysterious past, and a powerful sexual allure. He wants her, and she wants him. There's only one problem: the Men Upstairs. She used to belong to them—and they'll do anything to get her back.
"Waggoner delivers a tale of cosmic and body horror at its most disturbing. The Men Upstairs is a fascinating study of the ancient tension between repulsion and desire." – Laird Barron, author of Occultation.
This volume collects all three novels in the Nekropolis sequence: Nekropolis, Dead Streets, and Dark War, as well as three short stories featuring zombie detective Matt Richter.
WELCOME TO EXETER, THE “MOST HAUNTED TOWN IN AMERICA,” thanks to a deadly flood that unleashed an army of ghosts decades ago. And when ghost trackers Amber, Drew, and Trevor attend a conference during Exeter’s spookiest week of the year, the ghouls grow restless. First, an innocent bookstore worker is mysteriously killed, setting off a string of strange deaths that point to a shadowy spirit known as the Dark Lady.
With a paranormal revolution ensuing, the team must stop the twisted bloodbath. But a past horror involving the death of a former teammate has them spinning faster than a specter in a storm, especially when they learn that it’s his ghost who awakened the Dark Lady. Now, with their lives on the line and the entire town at stake, the three must decide whether to trust the spirit of their old friend or to finally put a stake through his heart.
Ghost Trackers with Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson of SyFy's Ghost Hunters
For fifteen years, Amber, Drew, and Trevor have barely been able to recall—let alone explain—what happened the terrifying night they decided to explore the old, abandoned Lowry House. According to local legend, the house was cursed by a dark past and inhabited by evil. It burst into flames on the night of their visit, leaving the friends traumatized and nearly dead with only vague memories of the frightening events they had witnessed inside. Now, on the eve of their high school reunion, they have gathered to reopen their investigation and figure out, once and for all, what took place that fateful night . . . before the supernatural entity they escaped threatens to overtake them again.
From his arrival at Nekropolis, Matt has found himself embroiled in disputes with the city's vampire lords, shapeshifters, golems and other monstrosities.
You've got to keep your head to survive in the teeming undead city known as Nekropolis. It's a pity Matt couldn't manage that. Now everyone wants a piece of him.
Zombie detective Matt Richter and his glamorous she-vampire companion Devona are back on the case, with another wild and wonderful investigation.
His mean streets are the city of the dead, the shadowy realm known as Nekropolis. And in this first case, Richter must help a delectable half-vampire named Devona recover a legendary artifact known as the Dawnstone, before it’s used to destroy Nekropolis itself. That is, if he can survive the myriad horrors that infest the city.
Nekropolis is the first of a trio of urban fantasies. Originally published as a limited run novella, the expanded Nekropolis is the definitive version of the series opener.
Release date: August 1, 2009 (UK), Feb. 1, 2010 (US/Canada)
Centuries ago, when Earth's Darkfolk -- vampires,
werewolves, witches and other creatures -- were threatened
by humanity, they departed our planet's dimension
and journeyed to a shadowy realm, where they built
the great city of Necropolis. Matthew Adrion is an
Earth cop who came through a portal to Necropolis
on a case, died, and was resurrected as a zombie.
Unable to return home, he works as a private investigator
on the very mean streets of this shadowy, dark city.
Fissures appear in the darkness. Shadows break, collapse, and crumble away to nothing, revealing that they are far more than the mere absence of light. Shadows are our friends.
Shadows protect us.
Because what lies behind the darkness is so much worse . . .
Fourteen stories by the author of Like Death, Pandora Drive, and Darkness Wakes.
Hardcover: 336 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0786950382
ISBN-13: 978-0786950386
CROSS COUNTY
Published by Wizards of the Coast Discoveries
When Joanne Talon was a child, she disappeared for six days. She returned without any memory of where she'd been and what happened to her during that time. Not long after that, four people were viciously murdered without apparent motive by Carl "the Cutter" Coulter. Carl cut their throats and then carved a bizarre symbol -- a triangle bisected by a bolt of lightning -- into their abdomens.
Now Joanne is Sheriff of Cross County, Ohio, and Carl Coulter is dead, executed for his crimes eight years ago. But the killings begin again: throats slashed, Carl's signature symbol carved into the victims' stomachs. Joanne, with the help of reporter Dale Ramsey, must discover who's copying Carl's crimes and why. To make matters worse, the murders have drawn the attention of the sinister Cross family, who've ruled the county that bears their name for the last two centuries. The Crosses have their own reasons for wanting the murders stopped. Their land holds secrets . . . ancient, dark, and buried deep.
And the Crosses intend to make sure they stay that way.
Thrillers 2 Published by Cemetery Dance Edited by Robert Morrish
Featuring: Gemma Files, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Tim Waggoner, and R. Patrick Gates
This volume marks the long-overdue return of a dark fiction series that debuted in 1993. After a fourteen year hiatus, Thrillers is revived with a star-studded second volume.
Within these pages, you'll find terror, suspense, and mystery that range from quietly menacing to shockingly graphic, wildly fantastic to grimly realistic. It's all here, with one universal ingredient: a well-told story.
T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
• Gemma Files:
"Pen Umbra"
"Author's Notes"
• Tim Waggoner:
"The Faces That We Meet"
"Long Way Home"
"Darker Than Winter"
"Author's Notes"
• R. Patrick Gates:
"Midnight Popeye"
"K.D.'s Wish"
"The Tell-Tale Nose"
"Author's Notes"
• Caitlín R. Kiernan:
"The Daughter of the Four of Pentacles"
"Houses Under the Sea"
"Author's Notes"
The formula for the Thrillers series is deceptively simple: we invite four of the genre's most popular authors to each contribute 20,000 words of original, never-before-been-published fiction. We add insightful Afterwords by each author, along with striking illustrations by a brilliant artist. The end result is a wonderful showcase for the finest of today's short fiction.
Available in two states: Limited edition of 750 signed copies ($40) Traycased Lettered Edition of 26 signed and lettered copies bound in leather with a satin ribbon page marker ($175)
In the small town of Ptolemy, darkness is a living thing. A powerful thing. Its home is in the shadows of a bizarre, hidden club named Penumbra, where it is worshipped by followers who need the pleasure it gives them. They are addicted to it. They live for it. And they kill for it.
When Aaron was first introduced to Penumbra, he thought it was just a secret club where members could indulge their kinkier fantasies. Bit by bit, as he learned the club's true purpose, he began to change in subtle, horrible ways. Now it's time for Aaron to prepare his first human sacrifice to the waiting darkness. It's too late for him to back out now, but murder is the least of Penumbra's sins. The true terror is still to come when . . . Darkness Wakes.
Damara Ruschmann was a child when her ability to
manifest dreams and fantasies as three-dimensional,
living-breathing reality first made itself known —
with tragic results. After that terrible night, Damara
withdrew from the world, becoming a recluse so that
her power could never hurt anyone ever again. For
twelve years, she’s managed to keep her power
under control, but now it’s beginning to leak
out, affecting all those around her. Like a wildfire,
Damara’s power soon rages out of control, and
the hidden fantasies of her friends and neighbors
begin to take on a terrible — and deadly — life
of their own . . . on Pandora Drive.
Scott Raymond is a man haunted by his past and terrorized
in the present. As a young boy, he witnessed the brutal
murder of his family, but there is so much of the
gruesome tragedy that he simply cannot remember —
including the identity of the killer or why Scott
alone was spared. The memories won't come, but the
trauma won't go away.
Scott is an adult now, still emotionally scarred
but learning to deal with it. He has come to Ash Creek
to write about a different mystery, a six-year-old
girl named Miranda who has disappeared in broad daylight
one year ago. Here, Scott meets another girl named
Miranda, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the one
who's missing — but this one's a teenager. She
will draw Scott into the bizarre hidden world known
as Shadow. A world where nightmares are very real
. . . and very deadly.
Reality and nightmare. Past and present. Sanity and
madness. For Nathan Bennett, there is no longer any
difference between them – not since the Harmony
Society came into his life.
ISBN 0-7869-3385-2
Price $17.95
Release date: July 2003 Purchase
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A collection of eighteen horror and dark fantasy
stories from one of the genre's rising stars.
ISBN 1894815068
Price $15.00
Release date: February 2002 Purchase
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Dying For It
Published by Foggy Windows Books
Justin & Liana Mallory are husband and wife.
They`re also private investigators. Fortunately enough
for them, both work and play go together quite naturally,
as nothing gets them quite as excited as working on
a case. However, when Wyatt Trower, an old flame of
Liana`s asks for help, jealousy rears its ugly head,
right up until he turns up dead in an alley. Now it`s
up to Liana and Justin to find out just what kind
of `big score` Wyatt was working on when he died.
Soon the team of Mallory & Mallory find themselves
wrapped up in a web of lies, blackmail, and voyeur
videos. And someone else wants them to stop nosing
into the whole sordid affair - and will stop at nothing
including more killing to keep the scandal under wraps.
It will take all of their undercover skills to track
down the killer, stay safe, and solve the crime.
ISBN 1930947054
Price $12.95
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