Crime - Murder - Mystery - Suspense
Welcome to Blue Spruce, a town you'll find on no map. Blue Spruce, in Ilaloona County, Oregon, is the fictional town that is the setting for my novels Something in the Dark and Cold Kill.
This butterfly-shaped county is in South Central Oregon between Lane and Klamath Counties, with the Cascade Mountains taking up the North "wing" hay fields and potato farms filling in the "body" and a number of towns with roots in logging and agriculure scattered throughout the South "wing."
Something in the Dark
Austin Ward believes she's coping with her overwhelming fear of the dark, the result of a traumatic childhood incident. When she's locked in a windowless shed and the power goes out her phobia is triggered, leading her to seek the help of a therapist. But Austin's search for healing is sidetracked when those around her begin to die in brutal ways. At first too stunned to act, Austin eventually uses her innate resilience to try to discover the identity of the killer. But who is he? Is someone out to get her? Has a serial killer come to her small Pacific Northwest town? Or, has something sinister followed her from childhood, something she met once before...in the dark?
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Cold Kill
Keyla Conner is a probation officer, volunteer with search and rescue, and girlfriend of a deputy sheriff. A man has come to her small town nestled in the shadow of the Cascade Mountains, an angry man willing to go to great lengths to get revenge against the men he feels ruined his life. Keyla will need to call on every bit of skill she has to survive, because it's not the deputies of the Ilaloona County Sheriff's Department that are his targets, it's their wives...and girlfriends.
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