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While doing a stint for bank fraud the unlucky Joe Riggins meets kindly Chung Zhang whom he learns murdered nine women in a bizarre trafficking scheme for old money back in China. In prison the elderly man is his mentor, but Zhang befriended Joe for a reason, he realizes after women start dying again upon Joe’s release. As he begins to suspect the plan for his downfall is bigger than anyone can imagine, involving perhaps his own government, unexpected help comes in the form of cool, inhibited and very British restaurant owner Hester Haley and the unlikeliest ally of all, a cop who believes him.

 

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When cosmetics heiress Terra Donlevy shuns the trappings of wealth and chooses to live a simple life in the country with only a modest security system and a few dogs to keep her safe, a certain element becomes attracted.  Junius Redwine is out of prison and though he claims to have been born again, he becomes increasingly insistent that Terra place a value on the life his son Leon saved the summer before when he prevented Terra’s murder at the hands of deadly Joshua Bern, also known as Brother Lowdown.  For protection Terra relies heavily on Simon Brith, the troubled homicide detective who has made a habit of rescuing her, but things are changing between them and she senses that Simon on his road to wellness is going to need more from her than she can comfortably give.

Simon does want more and he’d like it to be from Terra but she stalls at every turn, frustrating him almost as much as the latest case he and his partner Dan Cox have pulled.  Someone is killing men and dumping their bodies in a windbreak.  Dan worries when known misogynist Simon appears to zero in on tall, exotic Ivory Pandeen, who shows up and claims to be an unwilling accomplice to the murders.  Ivory is exquisite with her black hair, dark eyes and long legs and if Terra Donlevy attracts one kind of man, Ivory attracts another.  All of them want something they shouldn’t from these two women and a few are going to be surprised to find out just what they receive.

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Three people with deranged pasts are brought together when a drifter called Brother Lowdown comes to town. Simon Brith is a homicide detective known for his intense reactions when in the proximity of any female other than a hooker. Terra Donlevy is a cosmetics heiress, who eschews anything feminine and harbors a violent abhorrence of most men, particularly those who come to her property to poach animals and fish. Simon and Terra meet under unusual circumstances that keep bringing them unhappily together, until a fateful meeting with the indigent Brother Lowdown exposes his desperate need for justice and he targets both Simon and Terra.

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Nurse Abra Ahrens is hired to care for a man she believes is HIV positive but it’s a lie perpetrated by his brother, her boss, the chief of staff at the hospital. He chose Abra because she has a reputation as a recluse and has no real relationships outside the hospital besides her mother, noted psychiatrist Lee Ahrens. That changes when Abra meets handsome next door neighbor, Zane Campbell, an ex-detective turned ocularist and medical artist. Like Abra, Zane doesn’t get out much, primarily because no one can understand his speech when he talks, thanks to the bullet in the face that ended his police career. His youngest son Eli makes fun and mimics his father, but is sobered by his older brother Holt’s news that a girl from their neighborhood has gone missing. Another neighbor, a retarded adult named Chance finds a bike near a bridge and when Eli sees the bike he recognizes it as the missing girl’s. Neighbor Mark Vaughn, a car dealer with a criminal past would love for the swarm of police that descends to deal with the deafening bird problem caused by the people next door to him. Craig Peterwell’s dozen exotic birds screech, squawk and scream day and night, making sleep impossible for Mark and his wife Valerie’s baby daughter. When confronted, Peterwell becomes angry. Craig Peterwell has been getting angry a lot lately. He can’t understand why no one listens to him.  He wants his wife Louise to listen but she doesn’t, and in the space of a few minutes on a warm summer evening Craig Peterwell sets in motion a chain of events that will change his life, and the face of the neighborhood, forever.

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Ex-cop Vic Kimmler has lost his wife, his job and his self-respect when he learns his estranged father is dead and has left him a stud farm near the Colorado border. With the help of fireman friend Nolan Wulf, Vic packs up his bags and his girls and they leave Kansas City for a new life. They arrive to meet a man named Jinx who runs the diner in a remote place called Denke, the nearest excuse for a town near the farm. Jinx is icy until he recognizes Vic because he looks like his late father. Jinx informs them that things have gone south at the farm Vic inherited, living there is a woman named Myra Callahan with her boy Cal and he strongly hints that all blame lies with them. Vic and Nolan go immediately to confront the two and find a struggling mother and son living on goat’s milk and vegetables from a puny garden because someone has punctured the radiator in her car and cut the land line, leaving them no way to escape or get help. Nightly attacks have left them terrified and both are relieved to see ex-cop Vic arrive. Sparks fly between Nolan and Myra but anger and insinuation quickly build a wall between them. Myra wants Vic to understand that all is not as it seems in Denke. The residents operate under a sort of town co-op and they definitely do not take kindly to strangers. But Myra can’t say for sure that the people terrorizing them are from town, because her ex’s wealthy mother wants to take her grandson Cal back to Houston and the only thing standing in her way is Myra. Vic is angry when he learns of an abduction attempt Myra has withheld and he’s even more upset when his two little girls tell him they’re seeing a strange glowing lady in their new house, but he can’t stay that way because Jinx and the town of Denke are opening their arms wide for him and his two little girls. They give him a job, money and a way to regain his self-respect, and soon they’ll be initiating him into the ‘Denke way of doing things’, which everyone in town has lived under and profited from for a hundred and fifty years. The part they’re not telling him is that the borders of the law are quite different in Denke, and if you’re related and your name is in the old family Bible you don’t have a thing to worry about. If you’re not, well…

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On a remote ranch deep in the Flint Hills at a clinic for women diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, patients are dying in extremely violent ways. The staff has invited Dr. Bryan Raleigh and his team, along with his journalist brother, David, to write about the clinic, and from the moment of their arrival they begin to unravel secrets about the family who owns the ranch, including a strange blood ritual practiced by the hemophiliac son and even more bizarre rites performed by the grotesque, voyeuristic wife of the clinic’s director. Soon David and the others begin to suspect the rude, imperious woman who never leaves the third floor may be somehow responsible for the deaths of traumatized patients dying one by one, and the closer they get to the truth, the bigger the threat becomes to their own safety.

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Guy Driscoll thinks he’s doing the right thing by giving up his job at a Chicago newspaper to get his promiscuous daughter out of the city and into the small town life Guy knew as a child. What he does is deliver her directly into the line of fire of someone who’s reached the desperation point and can see only one way to maintain his standing in the community. Vernon Diest and his family have tended the dead of the town of Colson since its inception and he takes his work seriously, though Elma, his deaf mute step-sister left behind by her drunken, abusive father has not been as well tended. Still, she adores Vernon and will do anything for him…to a point. Vernon would notice Elma if he wasn’t obsessed with pretty police officer Michael Bish, married to a man in a coma, a fellow officer shot by his partner in what everyone in town wanted to believe was an accident. The shooter, war hero David Eulert has something in common with Vernon Diest, and he wants to join forces with him in doing something about Michael that will help both of them. Curious reporter that he is, Guy Driscoll gets in their way. His interest in Michael is about to change all their lives, some for the better, some not so much. Before it’s over the mortuary of Vernon Diest is stacked with bodies, and the tender of the dead couldn’t be happier with how things are going, but the deaf mute Elma has been making wishes on the large, white summer moons, and her wishes are about to become true in ways no one could have predicted, none of them for the better.

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Small towns have many secrets, but the secrets in Dumford, Kansas become uglier than most when pregnant animals begin suffering grisly deaths. Police officer Ben Portlock has more reasons than the obvious for concern: a month ago a day old baby was stolen from its crib then turned up dead in the town dump, now Ben’s sweet but scatterbrained sister Edie is pregnant and sporting lots of unexplained bruises on her body, and to compound matters his former fiancee, Lura Taylor, the girl he testified against and sent to prison for eight years is home and has been seen walking the neighborhood at night…in her nightgown.

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The Vision – Three neighbors find themselves sharing a vision of something shockingly grotesque hanging from the fence of the fourth home on the block. Is it a ghoulish warning or a clue to something from the past that each of them should remember?

They’re Closer Than You Think – A tale with a definite warning for young boys that shoot arrows at targets in the woods and miss, only to get the bloody broken parts of the arrow back the next day, on the front porch of the family home.

Battle’s Panther – A local family and a disparate group of people find themselves in a struggle to survive when a private plane’s crash landing disturbs what has lived in the woods of the hollow for eons.

Others – A teacher writes a sentence on a board one day and triggers something hidden in the DNA of a young star athlete who has been chosen to defend our realm against beings that can enter only when it rains, and only when certain human females from Hungary happen to be around.

Op Donja – The lives of everyone involved change when a drug cartel pirates a yacht from a Dutch family on the California coast and mistakenly leaves one little girl alive in the water when all the rest of her family are abandoned to the sharks to be eaten.

Phelan Keegan and the Blue Man – With his two PhD’s Phelan Keegan may be the most intelligent drunk that has ever moved to the area, bringing his three children to live in a house recently vacated by it’s owner’s suicide. The cemetery right outside their door is something else they didn’t count on, or the graves that get filled and then sink again because they’re suddenly empty.

Unleaded – Combine the oldest living bacteria on the planet with several barrels of a banned pesticide stored in a salt mine a mile under the earth that’s visited by hundreds of people a week and you suddenly have two kinds of people: those whose amygdala has been altered, and those whose amygdala hasn’t. Surviving high school in this case comes down to which teacher has the best skills with a pen, or the sharp end of a compass. Then it’s unleaded all the way.

The Last Secret – A surprise devastating earthquake in Savannah, Georgia destroys the city and causes graveyards to spill forth their contents. One man sees this as the apocalypse and determines that he and his sons have been chosen by God to remain behind and complete His work. Those unlucky enough to be captured hatch a desperate plan to escape, but there’s more out there to worry about than bullwhips, dogs, rogue cops and bombs, and when the last secret is finally revealed, only a handful may survive it.

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In half-hearted collusion with a neighbor desperate to find a runaway husband, architect Etta Baxter agrees to vacation on the mid-California coast in the sleepy town of Satyr’s Graze, where she steps into a magnificent stone house with a monster on the outside in the form of a gargoyle and discovers there might be a monster lurking on the inside as well. The possibility of a peaceful retreat vanishes as event after event places Etta at the center of conflict. She becomes part of a blood-soaked crime and meets a family she won’t soon forget, particularly when one of the owners, a wheelchair bound psychic named Toby, who has a tall, handsome twin called Noel, claims Etta has known all of them before, in lives lived thousands of years ago, and that someone or some ‘thing’ among them has unfinished business with everyone in the house.

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I am extremely happy to see this author republishing her earlier novels along with new thrillers. I read Green Lake back in the 90s and on an annual basis eagerly anticipated Ms. Epperson’s next hardcover novel. I have read all of the Epperson novels, new and old, and have yet to be disappointed. I have purchased the Kindle edition of Green Lake and hope there are MANY more to follow. Would love to re-read all of the Epperson novels. S.K. Epperson novels are extremely suspenseful; sometimes with a dash of the supernatural sprinkled in. Her stories remind me of Gothic thrillers that are very atmospheric with great characters. Keep them coming!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004OEJJ78

Some crimes are too horrible to forget, and some just keep happening over and over again. In a town where a frontier military fort was once converted to an orphanage for destitute children, dark deeds took place. The children placed there were often taunted, jeered at and farmed out to local businesses as free labor to ‘help pay for their keep’. On occasion bad things happened, and if you were a shy, pretty girl, even worse things happened, unforgivable things that might take a very long while to get over. Maybe even a few lifetimes, as the people who come together to solve the town’s mysteries discover.