A MURDER IN KNOXVILLE and Other Smoky Mountain Mysteries . . . contains five Sam Jenkins mystery novelettes, approximately 10,000 words each. A LABOR DAY MURDERBY THE HORNS OF A COWSERPENTS & SCOUNDRELSMURDER IN A WISH-BOOK HOUSEand A MURDER IN KNOXVILLE

A Murder in Knoxville and Other Smoky Mountain Mysteries

Wayne Zurl

Iconic Publishing, LLC

REENACTING A MURDER and More Smoky Mountain Mysteries . . . contains five Sam Jenkins mystery novelettes, approximately 10,000 words each. BULLETS OFF-BROADWAYSCRAP METAL & MURDERV IS FOR . . . VITAMIN?REENACTING A MURDER and the previously unpublishedA FIRE AND OLD ICE

Reenacting a Murder and Other Smoky Mountain Mysteries

A Leprechaun's Lament

A stipulation of the Patriot Act gave Chief Sam Jenkins an easy job; investigate all the civilians working for the Prospect Police Department. But what looked routine to the gritty ex-New York detective, turned into a nightmare. Preliminary inquiries reveal a middle-aged employee didn't exist prior to 1975. Murray McGuire spent the second half of his life repairing office equipment for the small city of Prospect, Tennessee, but the police can't find a trace of the first half. After uncovering nothing but dead ends during the background investigation and frustrations running at flood level, Jenkins finds his subject lying face down in a Smoky Mountain creek bed. By calling in favors from old friends and new acquaintances, the chief enlists help from a local FBI agent, a deputy director of the CIA, British Intelligence, and the Irish Garda to learn the man's real identity and uncover the trail of an international killer seeking revenge in the Great Smoky Mountains.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

It’s six years after ‘The War.’ Not the 'War to End All Wars' or 'the Big One.' Just ‘The War,’ a global nuclear apocalypse. Out of the bedlam emerge the human jackals--the Scorpions, anarchist mercenaries of immorality and savagery aside the monstrous mutants known as Nomads. These deformed and nearly invincible cannibals prey on the unaffected and are the stuff of nightmares. Lloyd and Carlos have wandered the post-apocalyptic wastelands of Colorado, Utah, and Nevada, for almost six years. They've managed to survive thieves, feral prostitutes, gypsy cannibals and even themselves. Lloyd, a dark and troubled personality with unusual psychic gifts, is kept just this side of sanity by his Cuban companion and psychologist, Carlos, who has some issues of his own to deal with...not the least of which is his direct involvement in the murder of Lloyd's family. When Lloyd is seriously injured in a fight with desert bandits, Carlos seeks medical attention for him in a nearby city where he runs into an old and deadly enemy, Scorpio, leader of a savage gang determined to take over what’s left of America. Trying to rescue his friend from Scorpio’s clutches, Lloyd is mistaken for the Archangel Michael by religious zealots camping nearby. He is their prophecy fulfilled, the angel come to lead them against the spreading evil. As he grudgingly takes on this new persona, even Carlos and their new companions, Doug and Todd, start to question Lloyd’s true identity. Within this hellish landscape, four orphans of humanity rise to end the chaos and depravity. Lloyd, Carlos, Doug and Todd, strangers brought together by destiny, brothers forged by fate. To war against evil, they must become something more than men, something guaranteed to generate fear in the wicked and inspiration in the righteous. In their presence, men will whisper this warning to all transgressors, “Beware the wrath of angels for they are done with the ways of men.”

Wrath of Angels

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Howard, C N

Science Fiction

There are stories among the Cheyenne of brave warrior spirits, 
skinwalkers, who protect the world from evil. For two 21st century 
brothers, it&rsquo;s not just a story.\nBen Eagle Plume is a police detective on temporary assignment with 
Vancouver law enforcement. With his younger brother Zeke as his 
partner, they work together solving crimes while Ben learns to 
control his newly acquired powers. But when Zeke disappears during 
a ritual murder case, the shapeshifting detective must use every 
resource to rescue his brother before he too is sacrificed to a 
bloodthirsty god.

Blood Totems

          Sam Jenkins might say, "Falling in love is like catching a cold.  It's infectious and involuntary. Just don't sneeze on any innocent people."            Getting kidnapped and becoming infatuated with a married policeman never made TV reporter Rachel Williamson's list of things to do before Christmas.  But helping her friend, Sam Jenkins, the ex-New York detective and now police chief in Prospect, Tennessee, with a fraud investigation would get her an exclusive story.  It all sounded exciting and made her station manager happy.           Sam's investigation put Rachel in the wrong place at the wrong time and her abduction by a mentally disturbed fan, ruined several days of her life.         When Jenkins learns Rachel has gone missing, he cancels holiday leaves, mobilizes the personnel at Prospect PD, and enlists his friends from the FBI to help find her.         During the early stages of the investigation, Sam develops several promising leads, but as they begin to fizzle, his prime suspect drops off the planet and all the resources of the FBI aren't helping.         After a lucky break and a little old-fashioned pressure on an informant produce an important clue, the chief leads his team deep into the Smoky Mountains to rescue his friend.               But after Rachel is once again safe at home, he finds their problems are far from over.

Heroes & Lovers

Zurl, Wayne

Winter in the Smokies can be a tranquil time of year--unless Sam Jenkins sticks his thumb into the sweet potato pie.    The retired New York detective turned Tennessee police chief is minding his own business one quiet day in February when Mayor Ronnie Shields asks him to act as a bodyguard for a famous country and western star.    C.J. Profitt's return to her hometown of Prospect receives lots of publicity . . . and threats from a rightwing group calling themselves The Coalition for American Family Values.   The beautiful, publicity seeking Ms. Proffit never fails to capitalize on her abrasive personality by flaunting her alternative lifestyle--a way of living the Coalition hates.   Reluctantly, Jenkins accepts the assignment of keeping C.J. safe while she performs at a charity benefit. But Sam's job becomes more difficult when the object of his protection refuses to cooperate.     During this misadventure, Sam hires a down-on-his-luck ex-New York detective and finds himself thrown back in time, meeting old Army acquaintances who factor into how he foils a complicated plot of attempted murder, the destruction of a Dollywood music hall, and other general insurrection on the "peaceful side of the Smokies."  

Pigeon River Blues

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