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June 20, 2017
To celebrate the release of A Haunting In Wisconsin, Pitmon House is free until June 24!
Pick up the prequel The Haunting of Pitmon House FREE at Amazon until June 24! Tell your friends!
June 11, 2017
May 24, 2017
Thank you, reviewers!
I wanted to take a moment and thank my readers who’ve taken the time to write a review of The Nightmares of Quiet Grove on Amazon! I know it takes time and effort to compose and post a review, so I want you to know I’m extremely grateful! Thanks to Joy, Dan, Missy, Debi, Jorge, Renell, Tammy Lisaguardipee, and “C”…and, of course the “Kindle Customer”!
So far, reviewers have given me a 4.6 rating for Nightmares, and I can’t tell you how pleased I am at the reception of this book! There’s plenty of room for more reviews, so please feel free to let me know what you thought of the book by visiting Amazon and posting your thoughts.
And once again, thank you for taking the time to review. It is much appreciated!
May 9, 2017
Eliza returns in “A Haunting In Wisconsin”!
A quiet getaway turns into a deadly mystery.
A long weekend at a remote B&B was supposed to give Eliza and Robert some downtime. They soon discover that sleeping in the building unearths the spirits of people long dead, reviving a haunted mystery that has waited many decades to be solved. Eliza and Robert’s plans to relax are put on hold while they try to help the owner of the B&B salvage his business.
Eliza and Robert both have the “gift,” but using it is difficult in the old building; something is wrong here, something that obscures their ability to see what’s truly happening. They discover a fiendish child who has taken diabolical secrets to the grave, intent on harming others. Their harrowing search for her — and the surprises buried with her — is filled with danger, as they discover much more evil and malevolent forces at work.
A Haunting in Wisconsin is a fast-paced paranormal mystery with an enjoyable cast of characters. It is full of twists and turns, as Eliza and Robert fight to save the B&B — and themselves. It is a stand-alone novel. No prior reading is necessary to enjoy this title.
April 18, 2017
Huge Series Sale! thru Sat 4/22
The first three titles in The River series are on sale at Amazon for a limited time! Pick up The Bank of the River for FREE, and the next two books, A Haunting in Oregon, and Ghosts of Our Fathers, for 99 cents each! Three titles for just $1.98, and you’re well into this popular paranormal series! Tell your friends!
March 30, 2017
New Downwinders title available today!
Deem and Winn return in
The Nightmares of Quiet Grove
, available today, March 30!
February 16, 2017
A new haunting…Deem and Winn return in The Nightmares of Quiet Grove
Some events are so horrific, they stain the very ground around them…
Something evil is buried at the estate of Quiet Grove, so deeply hidden that Deem and Winn are unable to reach it with their “gift.” David’s aunt lives in fear on the estate, plagued by sleepless nights with an unbearable gnawing sensation inside her head. When Deem and her friends try to locate the source of the estate’s hauntings, they uncover a shocking secret that leads them into uncharted waters. They soon find themselves out of their depth, unsure how to combat the nightmares that become real.
Quiet Grove lies east of the Nevada nuclear test site in the heart of the fallout zone. Ghosts from its sinister history have mutated into horrifying creatures, terrorizing Deem, Winn, David, and Erin in this new paranormal mystery.
The Nightmares of Quiet Grove is the sixth book in The Downwinders series. It can be read stand-alone, but reading the other titles of the series prior to this book will add to your enjoyment.
Available March 30…preorder available now!
February 7, 2017
After the read: Aberdeen’s Mass Murderer (spoilers)
This post contains spoilers…read AFTER you’ve finished The Port of Missing Souls.
Billy Gohl
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William “Billy” Gohl (February 6, 1873 – March 3, 1927) was an American serial killer who, while working as a union official, murdered sailors passing through Aberdeen, Washington. He murdered for an unknown period of time and was a suspect in dozens of murders until his capture in 1910. Spared from the death penalty by a request for leniency by the jury, he was sentenced to life in prison at Walla Walla State Penitentiary where he died in 1927 from lobar pneumonia and erysipelas complicated by dementia paralytic caused by syphilis.
Occupation and murders
Gohl was employed as a union official at the Sailor’s Union of the Pacific. Before this he had been employed as a bartender after returning broke from the Yukon. Already an accomplished criminal, Gohl was suspected of being responsible for many of the large numbers of deceased migrant workers that were found washed up on shore during his tenure as a bartender, as well as a number of other crimes. In 1905 during the great waterfront strike Gohl was charged with “assembling men under arms” and is also alleged to have forcibly abducted non-union crewmen from the schooner Fearless for which he was fined $1,250 in the Superior Court. As a union official, Gohl used his reputation and intimidating size to discourage strikes and “recruit” new union members.
The Union building proved to be a location that was ideal for his crimes, both in providing victims, and in concealing the evidence of their murders. Sailors arriving in the port of Aberdeen would usually visit the Sailor’s Union building soon after disembarking. There they could collect their mail and, if they wished, set some money aside in savings. Gohl would usually be on duty, alone. Typically Gohl would ask if the sailors had any family or friends in the area. Then he would turn the conversation to the topic of money and valuables. If the sailor was just passing through, and would not be missed by anyone in the area, and had more than a trivial amount of cash or valuables on hand, Gohl would choose him as his next victim.
Gohl would kill most of his victims in the union building by shooting them. Then after relieving them of their money and valuables, he would dispose of them in the Wishkah River, which ran behind the building and into Grays Harbor. According to some reports, there was a chute which descended from a trapdoor in the building directly into the river. Other reports state that Gohl would use a small launch to murder his victims and dump the bodies directly in the harbor. Though suspected of being responsible for the large numbers of sailors who would disembark in Aberdeen and disappear, nothing was done to stop him until an accomplice, John Klingenberg, was brought back to Aberdeen after trying to jump ship in Mexico to escape prosecution, or possibly to escape Gohl.
Arrest
Klingenberg was able to testify to seeing Gohl alone with a sailor, Charles Hatberg/Hatteberg, whose body had recently been found in the harbor at Indian Creek February 2, 1910, soon after his disappearance on December 21, 1909. Hatberg had been shot with a .38 Automatic pistol which had been found in the salt flats by his body; the ownership was traced to Gohl. The Motive according to Klingburg confession was that Gohl claimed Hatberg had told a Detective Miller that Gohl had shot a cow a previous summer. Gohl had already been arrested in February 1910 for the Hatberg murder and was convicted of two counts of murder, though suspected of 41 or more, found guilty May 12, 1910 and sentenced to life imprisonment and taken to the State Prison June 13, 1910. Besides Hatberg, the second count was for the murder of John Hoffman, a witness to the Hatberg murder who was shot and injured by Gohl on the night of the murder, and killed the next day by Klingenberg, for which he was sentenced to 20 years. (Hoffman had been killed December 23, 1909 after the Hatberg killing and had been robbed of $400.00 and also disposed of in the Harbor near Indian Creek. In July 1910 a human skeleton was found in Indian Creek; however, it is not known whether these were the remains of Hoffman.) Gohl was later transferred to an asylum for the criminally insane, where he died in 1927. He is buried in an open field above West Medical Lake, Eastern State Hospital.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Gohl
January 24, 2017
Fire (Storm) Sale!
To celebrate the release of The Port of Missing Souls, the first two books from The Dark River series are on sale! Pick up The Dark River: A and The Blood Gardener at a reduced price for the Kindle editions, now through January 29.
Since The Port of Missing Souls brings together plots and characters from three different series — particularly the Dark River — it’s recommended that you read these two titles before jumping into the new River series book.
Both titles are also available for Kindle Unlimited.
Steven and Roy return in The Port of Missing Souls – Available Now!
The 12th title in The River series has finally arrived: The Port of Missing Souls.
It’s the climactic culmination of the Eximere story, and brings together plots and characters from two other series, The Downwinders, and The Dark River.
What was the purpose of Eximere? What was James Unser up to? Will Steven honor the promise he made to his father, and not enter the portal to the Dark River? How can they possibly hope to understand the secrets of Eximere unless they follow the clues to wherever they lead?
I hope you enjoy reading this title as much as I enjoyed writing it! I don’t think I’ve enjoyed penning a novel more!
Pick up your copy today. It’s available for Kindle and paperback.
