Sliver of Darkness

The Chloe Files #2

by Howard Hopkins

Who knows what crimes cripple the minds of the guilty? Brant Lamont's acting career was on a downhill slide, then one night after a performance he vanished. Was he dead? Alive? Forty years later still no one knows what became of the mercurial actor...or the rising starlet who'd become his mistress. It was as if they'd both walked off the face of the earth. Until Chloe Everson's world flashes to a bizarre black and white and the specter of one of Lamont's characters, the Sliver of Darkness, visits her in the dead of the night. But ghostly visitations aren't Chloe's only dilemma, because the New Salem Ripper is stalking the waterfront, butchering prostitutes and young strippers, moving ever closer to an encounter with the object of his obsession... Chloe herself... Includes the bonus Chloe story: The Trouble with Flappers

188 pages, Paperback

Published December 10, 2008

About the author

Howard Hopkins is a Maine author of horror/western/comics fiction, as well as numerous published short stories, and an editor and writer for Moonstone Books. He has written licensed characters such as Sherlock Holmes and The Lone Ranger, and created The Veil for comic books.

His novels include THE CHLOE FILES supernatural/horror series, NIGHT DEMONS, GRIMM, THE DARK RIDERS and his books have been EPPIE nominated and Fictionwise bestsellers. He also writes a series for kids (8+) called THE NIGHTMARE CLUB (it's fun for adults, too!) the first called THE HEADLESS PAPERBOY.

He has also written 33 westerns in hardcover and trade paperback under the name Lance Howard (his middle and first names reversed), the most recent being THE KILLING KIND(available from www.amazon.co.uk)

On top of that he writes comic book scripts and is a big fan of the pulps, especially Doc Savage, The Avenger and The Shadow.

Please visit his website for excerpts, contests and more info. (http://www.howardhopkins.com)