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Earl Marcus found new hope after confronting the unspeakable evil unleashed by his father’s fundamentalist Church of the Holy Flame. Now plying his trade as a private investigator in the North Georgia mountains, he’s drawn once again into a dark abyss of depravity, and murder.
Tasked with what seems like a routine job, Earl stumbles into a mysterious cornfield where an old mountain legend appears to have awakened. Just as he begins to hear rumors of a place in the woods behind a dark cornfield where a killer collects human skulls, his partner Mary Hawkins vanishes.
As the litany of terror grows, the poisoned spirits of Earl’s past return to claim their final victims. And on an old train trestle over a swift-running river at the edge of a cornfield Earl will confront his worst fears. Time is running out for Mary—and unless Earl can wrest her from the control of a secretive cabal comprised of some of the area’s most elite—and wealthiest—citizens, she could be lost to him forever in In the Valley of the Devil, the second harrowing installment of the Earl Marcus mysteries by Hank Early.
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- ISBN: 9781683315933
- File size: 4962 KB
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- ISBN: 9781683315933
- File size: 3290 KB
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- English
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May 1, 2018
Private investigator Earl Marcus thought he had battled every evil hidden in the North Georgia mountains, but when his girlfriend goes missing, he finds a level of depravity that surprises even him.Having tackled his father's fundamentalist church, exposed child abusers, and been bitten by a poisonous snake in Early's debut (Heaven's Crooked Finger, 2017), Earl has more than earned some peaceful time with his love, Atlanta police officer Mary Hawkins. Urged, however, by Ronnie, a sketchy friend of Earl's, to investigate mysterious doings at a mazelike cornfield, Earl and Mary become disoriented, and suddenly Mary disappears. It doesn't take long for the plot to involve corrupt politicians, criminals, and legends of a racist stalker named Old Nathaniel, who may have captured Mary because she's African-American. Earl calls up the few friends he can trust, including a blind man named Rufus and Ronnie, whose poor choices in life are balanced by his unswerving loyalty to Earl. If this were the sort of story you'd subject to logic, you might also think Earl would involve Mary's professional cop colleagues, but then he wouldn't have a reason to go around the mountains beating people up, getting shot and stabbed--and besides, he's the one who loves Mary. Earl, who narrates the story, interrupts the already pedestrian prose too frequently to muse on everything from the nature of love to the meaning of dreams.Early's hero is a nice guy who certainly means well, but only those readers interested in further exploring mountain tropes will want to follow him on his next adventure.COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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