Mortuary cosmetician Callie Parrish doesn't have time to sleuth the day before her father's wedding though Jane's accusation that Callie attracts murder like a magnet seems true. She finds a John Doe homicide victim. Callie and Jane are terrified when they begin receiving threats from a man who knows Jane is telephone fantasy actress Roxanne and where she lives. John Doe is identified--Loose Lucy's ex-boyfriend. Callie is asonished to learn her brother Bill has hidden Lucy in the same house where he lives with his wife. The sheriff vows Bill is not a suspect, but he wants to talk to him....

Southern Swamps and Ruins might be termed a collection of ghost stories, but much more lies between its covers. Ghosts are not the only beings, or things, that go bump in the night in the South. Richard D. Laudenslager and Fran Rizer present fifteen original haunting tales that will live in readers' dreams (and nightmares) long after the book is closed. Guest authors L. Michelle Cox, Jenifer Boone Lybrand, Nathan R. Rizer, J. Michael Shell, Robert D. Simkins, and Two Ravens deliver six additional spine-chilling stories.

Who knew Columbia, S.C., could be so scary? Julie Bates discovers a corpse in front of the Assembly Street Post Office the same day arson destroys her home, but Julie's story is not a mystery. It's horror--southern style. Police officer Nate Adams thinks the killer who raped and murdered Julie's mother the year before is stalking her, but Julie's tormenter is not human. The well-known ghosts of South Carolina barely skim the surface of the paranormal evil that awaits Julie Bates in Columbia, South Carolina. Move over, Amityville, N.Y., this southern town is right there beside you on the scale...