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Claws: The Legend Behind Texas's Most Bizarre Unsolved Murders

Claws: The Legend Behind Texas's Most Bizarre Unsolved Murders - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Timothy Gene SojkaSeries:A Red Dirt Road NovelPublish date:2024-10-31Pages:348
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Black Rose WritingISBN-13:9781685135638ISBN-10:1685135633UPC:9781685135638Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Horror, Thrillers, Magical RealismBook Topic:SupernaturalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.46Product ID:SC7ST61P4V

"A master of intrigue, suspense, emotion, and wit. Sojka evokes laughter, despair, fear, suspense, and thrills." -Sublime Book Review

Teeny Voix lies burritoed in her blanket, girded by Lego landmines, protected by her plushy opossum when the bedroom door creaks, and her lecherous stepfather enters . . . again, while her momma ignores. Weeks earlier, the mute girl penned a mysterious letter, unwittingly hailing a goliath who mauls then kills Teeny's stepfather.

The bizarre death forces Teeny to use wit, fortitude, and an eclectic collection of combatants to brave life and death battles with the wicked White Van People, an organized and well-financed child trafficking operation.

Set in the summer of 1976, in the dark Piney Woods along Interstate 10, Claws embraces the soaring pines, dark chocolate waters, oppressive heat, and eccentrics of southeast Texas.

Pedro "Paunch" Perez, a portly, suspended detective, pursues Teeny, selecting himself as the mute girl's protector, and tracks her via the geographically impossible deaths that follow in her wake, each mystery laying the groundwork for a case that will remain unsolved and unexplained for over fifty years.

Using classic folklore to create new legend, Sojka hones his talent for plot twists while daring readers to solve the mysteries behind Claws.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Black Rose WritingISBN-13:9781685135638ISBN-10:1685135633UPC:9781685135638Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Horror, Thrillers, Magical RealismBook Topic:SupernaturalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.46Product ID:SC7ST61P4V
Sojka, Timothy Gene: - Tim's earliest jobs included frying chicken, mixing cow chips with peat moss to create rich manure, and stacking pallets of fertilizer. Not a cowboy or redneck (Tim would consider either a compliment) but a small-town country kid. While most storytellers claim to be influenced by other authors, Tim's influences include country music singers / legends Hank Williams Jr., Tanya Tucker, Charlie Daniels, Charley Pride, Charlie Rich, George Jones, George Strait, and Merle Haggard. "I was five years old, standing in a smokey juke-joint, when I first heard Charley Pride's Kiss and Angel Food Mornin'. I remember the words becoming images in my head, like a movie, more story to me than song. I aspire for my novels to embrace that rhythm, storytelling, emotional gut punch, and ironic beauty."
Publisher: Black Rose Writing

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