Bøger af Kent Holloway

FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE EZEKIEL CRANE NOVELS AND THE GRIM DAYS MYSTERIES!A Holy Land...A Holy War...A Holy Terror Against EvilIn the final years of the first Kingdom of Jerusalem in a vault hidden deep beneath the Temple Mount Baron Gregory De L'Ombre has made an astonishing discovery. Imprisoned within the vault are twelve monstrous abominations created by one of King Solomon's wives as an ultimate act of revenge. The secrets of the vault will ensure Gregory's absolute power and forever enslave the Outremer-the Holy Land. No man dares stand against him.But the Djinn is no mere man.A creature of smoke and shadow...a living legend...only the Djinn grasps the full scope of the baron's plans. Only he-along with his army of Knightshades-can save the Holy Land from a fate more terrible than anyone imagines.

A song of mourning...and warning.From the depths of Briarsnare Marsh the Yunwi Tsunsdi-the Little People-sing their dirge when death approaches to claim a soul. Sometimes though even death can be fooled. The residents of Boone Creek are shocked by the grisly discovery of seven mutilated corpses-their sons and daughters brothers and sisters-but an even bigger surprise awaits them when the grave gives up its victims.This miraculous resurrection has not gone unnoticed.The Leechers--thirteen men doomed to walk for all eternity in the shadowland between life and death bound by a curse to hunt those who would use uncanny power--unleash their judgment on anyone with a connection to those who have returned.Now it's up to Ezekiel Crane the enigmatic seventh son of a seventh son to thwart the Leechers' grisly mission and discover who has sent them to wreak vengeance on the sleepy Appalachian hamlet he is sworn to protect.The dirge is being sung. Death is coming to the Dark Hollows...with a vengeance."Holloway skillfully weaves a back-woods tapestry of Sherlock Holmes with TV's Supernatural and Justified into a thrilling Appalachian story of magic and mayhem. The Dirge amps up the action menace and mojo for a spookfest of epic proportions with a layered mystery and surprises at every turn. Join Ezekiel Crane and bring your ten-demon bag for another Dark Hollows adventure. This series somehow got even better." - Kane Gilmour Bestselling Author of RAGNAROK and THE CRYPT OF DRACULA

A choice will be made.A destiny will be fulfilled.A soul will be devoured.In folklore the Sin-Eater comes to the dead and dying ritually consuming a meal that symbolizes their sins granting them absolution and a peaceful transition to the hereafter.In Boone Creek Kentucky the Sin-Eater is devouring something else-the souls of the living-and it's up to the cursed seventh son of a seventh son Ezekiel Crane to stop him.But as the investigation deepens Crane will discover that the rampage of the Sin-Eater in his own hometown is no coincidence and the search for the truth will take him down a dark path...a path set by his lifelong enemy the malevolent Willow Hag.A path to the Ghostfeast where everything will end.

One-Eyed Jack has returned...FBI crime analyst Kili Brennan has come to Boone Creek in the Appalachian foothills of Kentucky looking for her missing brother...looking for answers. Instead she finds a world of suspicion and superstition. Locals say her brother and a string of others may have been killed by One-Eyed Jack-the fabled giant guardian that protects the fantastic archaeological monument he was researching.As Kili's search intensifies the danger escalates and the only person that can help her is a man whose mysterious past might be just as frightening and infinitely more dangerous than the dark secrets she is determined to uncover.A man named Ezekiel Crane.

A Haunted House...Missing Children...A Dead Man Walking...The Grand Avenue Detectives are on the case. Every small town has its secrets... Places you never go, except on a dare... People who, when you see them coming, you cross the street and go the other way... When a young girl in Burnside, Kentucky goes missing during an afternoon thunderstorm and the 'zombie' of the richest man in town is seen shambling the streets, inventor and 12-year-old sleuth 'Lucky' Lee Aker enlists his friends, Shane Morrow and '8-Bit' Grant to solve the case. Naturally the trail leads them to the town's most haunted place-Southwood Manor. But this mysterious house, its enigmatic occupant, and others in town with sinister purpose do not easily give up their secrets.

Anton Jax - Ajax Clean to those who know - is a professional cleaner. As in cleaner for the mob. Bloodstains on your shirt? No problem. Fingerprints and DNA evidence all over the crime scene enough to put you away forever? For the right price Clean will make it all go away.But now someone wants to make Ajax Clean go away.His instincts told him the job was too good to be true. He should have trusted them. Two dead bodies trace evidence pointing to him everywhere and those sirens he hears in the distance?Yeah coming for him.On the run Clean will have to take help where he can get it; from a half-crazed voodoo hitman a retired homicide detective and the beautiful young medical examiner Clean is desperately trying to protect. All he has to do now is survive long enough to clear his name get some payback and maybe if he's lucky make a clean exit.

The sleepy beach town of Summer Haven is waking up to a new nightmare-reality TV!Lance Avery--host of the popular adventure documentary show "Mysterious Expedition"--is in town to investigate a sunken shipwreck rumored to be the flagship of the infamous pirate Baron Tombstone, allegedly the last known possessor of a mystical artifact known as the Hand of Cain.Summer Haven Police Chief Becca Cole knows all about the Hand of Cain. For the last year, she's been investigating mysterious deaths tied to the artifact with a little help from the unlikeliest of partners--the Grim Reaper...Death himself incarnate in the flesh of one Silas Mot who has temporarily relocated to Summer Haven to discover why people are dying before their time.When an inexplicable tragedy strikes the TV production rumors abound that the death can only be attributed to "supernatural causes" but Becca is determined to find an all-too-human killer.Meanwhile Silas is facing a different sort of crisis. With each bizarre death he's losing his powers inexplicably transforming into a mere mortal. If Becca and Silas can't solve this latest mystery it will mean the end of his job as harvester of souls to say nothing of his very existence.

DEATH TAKES A (WORKING) HOLIDAY!Becca Cole is a big fish in a small pond. The former big-city homicide detective is now the Chief of Police in Summer Haven a sleepy Florida beach town where nothing ever happens. But all that changes when she is summoned to the scene of a grisly murder. A naked young woman lies dead on the beach a knife sticking out of her back and the supposed killer stands over the body. It looks like an open-and-shut case but not all is as it seems.The victim who was tangled up in Santeria and drug-trafficking didn't die from a stab wound. In fact an autopsy can't determine what killed her. The chief suspect turns out to be Silas Mot an enigma in his own right. In fact as Becca digs deeper into Silas's identity she discovers the startling truth. He's the Grim Reaper. The personification of Death. The guy who decides who dies and when. It seems he's in town in order to determine why unsanctioned deaths have been occurring in and around Summer Haven and he can't leave until he's cracked the case.Becca and Silas will have to team up to discover who killed the young woman if they are to put a stop to the unscheduled departures but for Silas confined to a body of flesh and blood for the first time in his existence the distractions of the world of the living may be the Death of him!

[Originally published as Killypso Island]The Cold War is heating up in paradise...'Captain Joe' Thacker didn't come to the tiny Caribbean island of St. Noel looking for trouble. Just the opposite the former flying ace turned sometimes-smuggler wants nothing more than to while away his days smoking hand-rolled Havana cigars and sipping rum as the melodic beat of calypso drums drift through the sultry air.But trouble has a way of finding Captain Joe.It begins when the local inspector decides seemingly on a whim to hassle him over a shipment of booze meant for Jacques 'the Candyman' Lagrange-a popular local figure who runs the island's only candy store and happens to be both a gangster and a voodoo priest. He's also the elder brother to the island's despotic governor. The long-simmering rivalry between the Lagrange brothers is starting to boil over making life on the island miserable and posing a serious threat to Captain Joe's livelihood. To make matters worse three suspicious figures who just might be Russian spies show up and start nosing around.Then Joe is accused of murdering the island's beloved fortune teller and the wife of the Candyman!With some help from an eclectic bunch of island dwellers Joe goes on the run and on the hunt for the real murderer. But St. Noel is a tiny island and the with police a horde of angry voodoo practitioners and a trio of insidious KGB agents hot on his heels Joe's biggest challenge will be staying alive long enough to clear his name.