Painted Death is set in an Alaskan coastal town. The disappearance of a local fishing captain leads to community discord over the inclusion of his boat in the towns commemorative mural Lost Seamen of Raven Creek. Kira Logan, the visiting designer of the mural, must solve the mystery of the captains death, and those of two other people, to save her project, help the children of the captain, and reassure the worried townspeople. The smuggling of drugs into the community adds to the conflict as the search for the distributer becomes more intense. Bizarre murders complicate the investigation and leave the police guessing. Can the murderer be found before killing again? Kira risks her life to find the answer. . . . a fascinating combination of mural painting, murder, drugs, and human intrigue. Willma Gore~Author

PERIL PRESS presents: Texas Rangers, March 1954 PAINTED DEATH by Gordon D. Shirreffs The valley swarmed with Apaches, and with two women survivors on his hands, Al Teach knew he'd carried his last mail pouch Al Teach figured he had carried his last mail pouch 5100 Words PLUS BONUS! Texas Rangers, March 1954 DONNER PARTY RENEGADE Feature by Lauran Paine The true tale of an outcast with a big durable heart 2000 Words Texas Rangers, March 1954 A TALL TEXAS TALE Money Talks by Al Sprong 150 Words Texas Rangers, March 1954 A TALL TEXAS TALE The Wet Flame by Hazel Holst 140 Words Texas Rangers, March 1954 SAGEBRUSH SAVVY Feature by S. Omar Barker A Quiz Corral Where a Westerner Answers Readers' Questions About the West 570 Words This edition includes 10 images between story/feature illustrations, cartoons from the issue, and in-house ad, the masthead and the cover to the issue of Texas Rangers that published these stories/features.

"A brilliant thriller with the elements of a crime story. Written with ease, it comprises twists which will leave the reader's mind in a constant, metaphorical question mark. - Venko Andonovski, bestselling Macedonian author of Navel of the WorldYou can't run away if the thing you're running away from is yourself. After a horrible tragedy took her father and sister, Julie moves to Croatia, where she tends bar, paints the afterlife, and maintains a quiet existence. Understanding what happened will take time. In the meantime, she finds solace in her art... until she meets him. The mysterious architect, Adam. Adam is the first man who really sees her. He loves her not despite the tragedies she's endured, but because of them. Until one mistake turns him against her. As Julie struggles to make sense of this inexplicable change, threatening letters seem to find her wherever she goes. Adam disappears. The letters are filled with demands she reluctantly obeys. Where they lead her is where her tragic story began, in the small Macedonian town by the lake, closer to answers about what happened to her loved ones. Will these letters help set her free or expose a much darker secret about her nature and the fateful winter night everything went wrong?

Madrid. Unfinished. Man dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed, synapses firing, writhing and reveling in pleasure and pain as a lifetime of chaotic and grotesque sense memories wash over and envelop him. In this bold and brilliant short work of experimental fiction by the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny, Max Porter inhabits Francis Bacon in his final moments, translating into seven extraordinary written pictures the explosive final workings of the artist's mind. Writing as painting rather than about painting, Porter lets the images he conjures speak for themselves as they take their revenge on the subject who wielded them in life. The result is more than a biography: The Death of Francis Bacon is a physical, emotional, historical, sexual, and political bombardment--the measure of a man creative and compromised, erotic and masochistic, inexplicable and inspired.

Why do we keep returning to certain pictures? What is it we are looking for? How does our understanding of an image change over time? This investigates the nature of visual complexity, the capacity of certain images to sustain repeated attention, and how pictures respond and resist their viewers' wishes.