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The Night Stalker Murders: Shadows of Black Hollow
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781923707580
Publisher: Cinarp Industries
Published: Apr 27 2026
Pages: 326
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Black Hollow is the kind of town that survives on routine. Porch lights glow through winter fog. Diner coffee tastes the same every morning. Church bells mark the hour. Neighbours know each other's names, histories, grudges, and weaknesses.
Then schoolteacher Evelyn Carter stays late in Room Twelve.
The hallway lights go out one by one. The landline dies. Her mobile has no service. A man steps from the dark and leaves one word on the classroom whiteboard:
QUIET
Sheriff Tom Grady wants procedure, evidence, and calm. But Evelyn's murder is not an isolated act. It is the first visible crack in a lie Black Hollow has been protecting for years. A witness returns from hiding. A staged knife attack leaves the wrong man dead. Power records reveal deliberate blackouts. Old council files point towards a freight depot with too much influence. A child's drawing suggests that a death on Depot Road was never the accident everyone accepted.
And every road leads towards Deputy Carl Higgins.
Carl is not the man people fear. He is worse. He is the man they call when fear arrives. He shovels snow for widows, calms frightened parents, remembers names, carries groceries, and knows which secrets can destroy which lives. In Black Hollow, trust is not just a virtue. It is cover.
As Tom works with Detective Marla Sykes, engineer James Cole, diner owner Rosie Callahan, librarian Maggie Holloway, and traumatised witness Glen Harrow, the investigation widens from one murder into a pattern of disappearances, staged deaths, official neglect, and civic cowardice. The deeper they dig, the more dangerous the truth becomes, because Black Hollow did not simply fail to notice the killer.
It helped make him possible.
The Night Stalker Murders: Shadows of Black Hollow is a gripping adult murder thriller blending police procedural tension, small-town horror, psychological suspense, serial-killer dread, and the classic mystery question: what happens when the person everyone trusts is the one person no one should have trusted at all?
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