Kingfish

Dead Lake #3

by Murphy Edwards

Kingfish had died hard, clenched between the razor sharp jaws of a giant, mutant alligator snapping turtle. It was a horribly painful way to die and Retired DNR Officer Charlie Nickles stood witness to the entire attack, helpless to do anything to save him. He missed Kingfish and spent every day regretting what had happened. Yet, some small part of Charlie, that part deep inside his ex-lawman’s gut, told him he hadn’t seen the last of his game poaching friend.
Meet the new Kingfish. Vivid Valley has become undead. So has Kingfish. He’s been in the very bowels of Vivid Valley Lake and he knows what’s at stake. Resurrected from the deep, murky waters, Kingfish returns a half man, half aquatic mutant and he’s back to convince Charlie to help him finish what they started and end the Dead Lake curse once and for all. But, the curse is spreading, infecting the wildlife, the cemeteries and the nearby townspeople. It’s no longer a battle; it’s a war for their lives and their souls against hordes of the undead. Kingfish and Charlie will put it all on the line as Dead Lake morphs into its ultimate mutation. Prepare for the undead assault!

219 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 15, 2015

About the author

Murphy Edwards is the award winning author of "Serious Money", "Bumper Music", "Heavy Weather", "Noodlers", and "The Last Days of Maxwell Sweet". His work has appeared in Dimensions Magazine, The East Side Edition, Black October, Horizons, MidAtlantic Monthly, Modern Drummer, The Nor'Easter, Walking Bones, Escaping Elsewhere, Trail of Indiscretion, Hardboiled Magazine, Barbaric Yawp, Samsara, The Magazine of Suffering, The Nocturnal Lyric, Night Chills, Big Pulp Magazine, Criminal Class Review and in the anthologies Dead Bait (Severed Press), Assassin's Canon (Utility Fog Press), Abaculus II (Leucrota Press), Night Terrors (Blood Bound Books), Unspeakable (Blood Bound Books), Bloody Carnival (Pill Hill Press), Dead Bait II (Severed Press), Indiana Horror 2011, Indiana Horror 2012 (Indiana Horror Writer's Association), Dead Bait III (Severed Press), Grave Robbers (Static Movement) and Serial Killers 2 (Static Movement). His short story, "Mister Checkers", was chosen to be among the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror of 2009 for the Leucrota Press Anthology, Abaculus III. Edwards is a 2011 recipient of The Midwest Writers Workshop Writers Retreat Fellowship Award for Fiction and is the Co-Editor / Publisher of Indiana Crime 2012. In addition to the United States, Edwards has been published in Ireland, Australia, South Africa, and the U.K. He resides in Indiana and on the web at http://murphyedwards.wordpress.com and murphy.edwards96@facebook.com