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It’s Christmas in Posadas County.

When a county employee is found shot to death in sun-drenched daylight while sitting in his county road grader, Undersheriff Bill Gastner is faced with puzzling questions.

Busy stitching and bandaging lumberjacks’ injuries, young Dr. Thomas Parks has no idea that his worst enemy is lurking in the sleepy village of Port McKinney in the spring of 1892.

When Posadas Register reporter Linda Real barely survives her nighttime patrol with one of Undersherrif Bill Gastner's deputies who is killed by a more accurate shotgun blast than the one that

Parked on a side road on the flank of the second highest peak in the San Cristobal mountains, almost 70-year-old Bill Gastner doesn't foresee that a car full of drunk adolescents will run into

Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman can’t help but feel that the recent beating of Carmen Acosta and the disappearance of Carmen’s neighbor, Kevin Ziegler, are related. She’s just not sure how.

A Mississippi backwater harbors a growing evil.

A woman concealing many dangerous secrets, Rachel has taken great pains to flee from her troubled past.

Gabriel Reid has led a life of good luck. From a loving family, well educated, and now quite wealthy, he holds an important office in a prominent Atlanta construction company.

Jason thinks his worst problems are his recovering alcoholic mother and his workaholic father -- until some unexplainable events occur.

Andrew Wilson has it all: a great house, a great job as a mystery writer, and all the money he can handle. But he's missing one thing: someone to share it all with.

In this collection of flesh-crawling tales, each author contributes one deliciously twisted selection.