Three people wake up in a deadly purgatory and must defeat a fierce warrior known as a 'Sheriff' in order to reach one of four towns inhabited by evil if they are to survive and find some hope of escape.

The sleep of reason leaves you powerless against evil...

John Beaudry was a fearless sheriff in the Wild West who ended up killed by the notorious Rutherford crew, leaving behind a young and fragile boy. Many years later, Roy Beaudry is a grown man who never managed to live up to the standards his father set. However, when an old friend of his father reaches for help, Roy returns to his father's country, determined to overcome his nature and confront his demons. A local rancher has been missing for a while after interfering in the dealings of the same Rutherfords, who are suspected of pulling off a recent train robbery, and Roy gets a chance to stand up against the Ratherford clan and avenge his father's death.

The Texas Sheriff takes a fresh, colorful, and insightful look at Texas law enforcement during the decades before 1960. In the first half of the twentieth century, rural Texas was a strange, often violent, and complicated place. Nineteenth-century lifestyles persisted, blood relationships made a difference, and racial apartheid was still rigidly enforced. Citizens expected their county sheriff to uphold local customs as well as state laws. He had to help constituents with their personal problems, which often had little or nothing to do with law enforcement. The rural sheriff served as his county’s “Mr. Fixit,” its resident “good old boy,” and the lord of an intricate rural society. Basing his interpretations on primary sources and extensive interviews, Thad Sitton explores the dual nature of Texas sheriffs, demonstrating their far-reaching power both to do good and to abuse the law.

This book is based on actual investigations I handled as a homicide detective. Follow the gripping life of a close knit, unstoppable squad of four detectives and their sergeant. Learn of the rarely told, unconventional methods of solving a murder. See how I delves into the dark side of the job that few cops dare to discuss. Watch how the job entangles a detective in unforeseen love and ignites his urge to revenge the deaths of his victims. This mystery is full of plot twists, sex, cop humor, drama and horrific violence. Drawing from memorable life experiences, I bring the reader intimately into investigations directly from the eyes of a cop who has witnessed the horrors of death.

Burt Jordan and his old coon hound Jasper never imagined they'd have to face off against big city developers who were hell-bent on bulldozing a beautiful hillside covered in oak trees. Wheeler-dealer Sam Hood desperately needed to score one more big hit so he could pay off his investors and retire in peace. Little did he know that on "a dark and stormy night" he would meet the greatest challenge of his life. In short, he messed with Mother Nature and he lost. While Hood tries to start up the project, employee Tom Blackfoot falls in love with a beautiful waitress who works in the local diner. The story comes full circle when her father and his dog challenge the developers.

The definitive account of the lynching of twenty-three-year-old Matthew Williams in Maryland, the subsequent investigation, and the legacy of "modern-day" lynchings. On December 4, 1931, a mob of white men in Salisbury, Maryland, lynched and set ablaze a twenty-three-year-old Black man named Matthew Williams. His gruesome murder was part of a wave of silent white terrorism in the wake of the stock market crash of 1929, which exposed Black laborers to white rage in response to economic anxieties. For nearly a century, the lynching of Matthew Williams has lived in the shadows of the more well-known incidents of racial terror in the deep South, haunting both the Eastern Shore and the state of Maryland as a whole. In The Silent Shore, author Charles L. Chavis Jr. draws on his discovery of previously unreleased investigative documents to meticulously reconstruct the full story of one of the last lynchings in Maryland. Bringing the painful truth of anti-Black violence to light, Chavis breaks the silence that surrounded Williams's death. Though Maryland lacked the notoriety for racial violence of Alabama or Mississippi, he writes, it nonetheless was the site of at least 40 spectacle lynchings after the abolition of slavery in 1864. Families of lynching victims rarely obtained any form of actual justice, but Williams's death would have a curious afterlife: Maryland's politically ambitious governor Albert C. Ritchie would, in an attempt to position himself as a viable challenger to FDR, become one of the first governors in the United States to investigate the lynching death of a Black person. Ritchie tasked Patsy Johnson, a member of the Pinkerton detective agency and a former prizefighter, with going undercover in Salisbury and infiltrating the mob that murdered Williams. Johnson would eventually befriend a young local who admitted to participating in the lynching and who also named several local law enforcement officers as ringleaders. Despite this, a grand jury, after hearing 124 witness statements, declined to indict the perpetrators. But this denial of justice galvanized Governor Ritchie's Interracial Commission, which would become one of the pioneering forces in the early civil rights movement in Maryland. Complicating historical narratives associated with the history of lynching in the city of Salisbury, The Silent Shore explores the immediate and lingering effect of Williams's death on the politics of racism in the United States, the Black community in Salisbury, the broader Eastern Shore, the state of Maryland, and the legacy of "modern-day lynchings."