Damnation Falls

Randall Wilkes, his big-city journalism career in ruins, has returned after twenty years to Pilgrim’s Rest, the Tennessee hill town where he grew up. He has taken on a lucrative but low-prestige writing job for Sonny McMahan, a former governor and Randall’s boyhood friend, whose own career is under a shadow and who needs a ghost-written autobiography to ease his way back into politics. Randall encounters Faye McMahan, Sonny's mother, who is addled with age, imagining that her dead husband is alive and worrying that her son might be in danger. Hours later, amid a violent autumn storm, Randall finds Faye murdered, hanging by the neck from a bridge over the town landmark called Damnation Falls. Within days, a second murder, even more grisly than the first, targets another member of the McMahan clan. And the bones of a third, long-buried murder victim –a young woman—emerge from the earth. Randall has ties to all the victims, and the murders force him to acknowledge debts that go back decades. Drawing on his investigative skills and his roots in the region, he sets out to discover who is behind the killings. His search takes him from the flatlands of the Mississippi delta to the Great Smoky Mountains in the east. Tennessee is a state that was split by the Civil War, where history still lies close to the surface, and tales of murder and betrayal have weighed heavily on the town of Pilgrim's Rest. Before all the answers are in, more people will die, an old score will be settled, and the dead will finally tell their stories.

Literature & Fiction

WRIGHT, EDWARD

United States

Minotaur Books

Some Observations Made In Travelling Through France, Italy &c. In The Years 1720, 1721, And 1722: In Two Volumes; Volume 2

Travel

Franklin Classics

Karl Alberg of the Canadian Royal Mounted Police captures a young killer, but later, as he and Cassandra Mitchell are planning to celebrate Valentine's Day, another man with a secret and a gun ruins their evening. 10,000 first printing.

STRANGERS AMONG US

Scribner

Clea's Moon

Ex-movie idol and ex-convict John Ray Horn makes ends meet by collecting debts for a gambler when an old friend calls asking for help with his father's estate, where Horn finds an obscene photograph of his young stepdaughter.

Putnam Adult

Former actor John Ray Horn tracks down his former leading lady, faded beauty Rose Galen, only to find her strangled to death and embarks on a dangerous investigation into her murder that takes him into the dark underbelly of Hollywood's silent-film era and to a party at a posh Hollywood mansion that changed Rose's life forever. By the author of Clea's Moon. 10,000 first printing.

While I Disappear

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

, xii, xviii, xxi, 206 pages, black and white illustrations, one chapter with an appendix at the end, bibliography and index, one of the author's copies

The Ferriby Boats: Seacraft of the Bronze Age

Routledge

A former B western movie actor recently released from prison, John Ray Horn investigates an old friend's mysterious death while searching for his missing stepdaughter. A first novel. Reprint.

BERKLEY

Former actor John Ray Horn tracks down his former leading lady, faded beauty Rose Galen, only to find her strangled to death, and embarks on a dangerous investigation into her murder that takes him into the dark underbelly of Hollywood's silent-film era. Reprint.

Contemporary

(Winner of Britain's Debut Dagger Award) Once he was Sierra Lane, hero to countless youngsters in a series of B-movie westerns. Now, after two years in prison, John Ray Horn lives on the margins of post-World War II Los Angeles. His wife has left him, and, blacklisted by the studios, he makes ends meet by collecting debts for his old Indian co-star, Joseph Mad Crow. Then an old friend, Scotty, contacts Horn. He has come across some obscene photos, including one, several years old, of Horn's stepdaughter, Clea. Within days, Scotty is dead, and Clea has run away. Horn's search takes him from neon-lit ocean-front piers to wooded canyons, from rich homes in the Hollywood Hills to Central Avenue, the Harlem of LA, a street rich in jazz and corruption. But will the on-screen tough-guy hero be able to sustain his role off-screen?

Clea's Moon --Signed--

Genre Fiction

London: Orion, 2003

John Ray Horn knows all about loss--and regret. He was once Sierra Lane, hero to countless youngsters in a series of cheap westerns. Now, after a spell in prison, he lives on the margins of 1940s Los Angeles. Blacklisted by the studios, he makes ends meet by collecting debts for his old Indian co-star, Joseph Mad Crow. One rain-soaked LA evening, a chance encounter brings Horn into contact with an old flame. Rose Galen played the female lead in his second movie. Young, beautiful, supremely talented, she had a shining quality to her. Now Rose is a shattered creature, drink-sodden and heavy with sadness. Something happened to her years ago, before Horn first knew her, something so terrible that it would eventually leave her broken. Hoping to uncover her long-held secret, Horn goes to visit Rose at her shabby rooming house. He discovers her strangled body. Aware of a debt to her that he never fully acknowledged, he sets out with the aid of Mad Crow to find her killer. His search takes him back into the Hollywood of the 1920s, to the Jazz Age, the era of the silent film, and a wild party attended by both movie celebrities and racketeers.On that night, a terrible act left a young woman dead and several people guarding a secret that would only begin to unravel after Rose Galen took her last tortured breath.

The Silver Face

The Orion Publishing Group Ltd

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Damnation Falls

Some Observations Made In Travelling Through France, Italy &c. In The Years 1720, 1721, And 1722: In Two Volumes; Volume 2

STRANGERS AMONG US

Clea's Moon

While I Disappear

The Ferriby Boats: Seacraft of the Bronze Age

Clea's Moon

While I Disappear

Clea's Moon --Signed--

The Silver Face