http://www.amazon.com/A-Deep-Red-Gold-ebook/dp/B006O2KTE0
A death row inmate with only days left to live is recruited by the FBI to obtain information from a wealthy, arrogant Egyptian believed to be behind the murders of several hundred women across the border.
Another title in my series of novellas. If you enjoyed Betsy Klausmeyer’s Cellar, look for The Bear and The Crypt Thieves as well as this title.
A story about a bad place.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006MNG1V6
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/114870
During his son’s baseball game a tax attorney catches a glimpse of a birthmark on a man’s leg and his blood runs cold with the memories that come. When he was five years old he saw something he shouldn’t have, went somewhere he never should have gone and paid harsh consequences. His eighteen year old son knows something is up with his dad and confides in his quiet girlfriend, who suffered early trauma of her own and begins to suspect that her boyfriend’s father knows exactly what she went through as a child, may in fact have made the acquaintance of her family’s killer long ago, and now both are determined to go back and find the truth about what lies in Betsy Klausmeyer’s cellar.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Neighborhood-ebook/dp/B006LAX1VS
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.
You gotta love it. It’s cold outside. It’s wet. What could be better than a nice warm fire? What? What’s that you say? You have no fireplace? No problem. If you have YouTube you’re set.
What? Eh? You like the rain you say? You love the sound of a storm? No worries. Cuddle up, you romantics.
Wow, I’m getting sleepy.
TVTERRORLAND just added this 70’s take on Elizabeth Short‘s murder in 1947.
My mother owned one of those Hollywood books that focus on the scandals and crimes surrounding the famous, and while flipping through I came upon the page with the black and white photograph of Elizabeth Short’s severed corpse in the grass. I could not look away and would return to the page again and again, my mind trying to grasp the horror this young woman must have endured, with her butchered breasts and gaping, sliced-open mouth.
It was entirely understandable the unfortunates who discovered the murder believed they were looking at a mannequin lying in the grass…at least until they were close enough to see the wounds.
I read everything I could find about the crime and it stayed with me over the years, particularly the fact that it has never been officially solved. The murderer either through skill or pure rotten luck had gotten away with slicing the poor struggling actress in half and dumping (or posing) her like so much refuse in a field.
The film released a few years ago in 2006 starring Hilary Swank, Scarlett Johansson and Josh Hartnett missed the mark for me in many ways, but an unsolved murder leaves many doors open and Hollywood will walk through them all.
Information surrounding the case can be found here:
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/dahlia/index_1.html
Elliott Ness–yes that Elliott Ness–believed the Cleveland Torso Murders http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Torso_Murderer were committed by the same person who later killed Elizabeth Short. He was never able to name the person, lacking solid evidence.
At one point in my digging I even tried to connect the murder of the Black Dahlia with the unsolved murders that occurred a year earlier in Texarkana.
The wikipedia scoop on those murders can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texarkana_Moonlight_Murders
This inspired the movie The Town that Dreaded Sundown, hokey in parts and scary as hell the first time I watched it.
Crazy thought: if sightings of UFO’s throughout history are, as some believe, people from the future returning to witness firsthand various historic events, I know I wouldn’t waste my time on famous battles or wars. I’d come back to learn who killed Elizabeth Short, et al.
UPDATE: Have spent hours scouring many videos and websites concerning this murder, but after posting the above, I happened on the video I believe has the answer and the name of the killer (Walter Bayley, the surgeon who lived a block away from the dump site and knew Elizabeth’s sister.) I’m convinced, and you may be after watching the following:
No, not the kind of salad you eat after a week of eating leftover turkey and stuffing, but the kind that provides a serious abdominal work out in the form of belly laughs.
Uploaded by MrAlexSan00
Another that always tickles me funny bone:
Uploaded by jumperbean2
The sequel to Brother Lowdown is here.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0069VVOI6/
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.
This film takes us to another time and another place and is well worth the visit if only to remember for a moment what Halloween and small towns are supposed to be like. :)
S. K. Epperson 