An American family destroyed in desolate Mexico when their father is hung and their mother is taken by militia leaving behind the nine year old son, Grayson, and the twelve year old daughter, Ada, to fend for themselves and make it out of the brutal terrain alive. This is the story of their incredible journeys of finding themselves as well as their family in Matador, Texas. As bizarre and macabre a tale as it is endearing and hilarious. This is the fourth novel from Country Noir author, JW Lollar who delivers rich characters and a bizarre tale of the wretches of mankind and human depravity to...

When the snow set in exactly, none of them could remember a date for certain. When it took over the world and the world ended, none of them could recall that either. The world frozen over and dank. The passages of time no longer of count. Scarce are the survivors. A girl. Zerelda Jones. Twins. Paul and Pete. A man who leads those who follow him. Jacoby. The second novel by country noir author, JW Lollar, author of The Harvest Black. No one here gets out alive. The story of bleak heroism and starvation, of survival and demise, or fear and the fearless. The gray world swallowed by snow and...

A hard-hitting starkly evocative glimpse into the family Spear, told from an unrelenting gritty reality. A family stuck in a time; stolen of an era, pluck from the sardonic virtues of a world that has passed them by. A son who was born into a manhood and inclinations, another who has the heart of too many and the inabilities to find his way. A mother made of stone. A father of rural legend and a grandfather dug from the pestilent countryside itself. The tale of the Spear is at times both a nightmare in prose and a hope for change from the somber hideous past, which bore them all. Foregone is...

When Coy Hughes returned from the war for his father's funeral he thought he'd left behind the bodies and the carnage yet instead inside him lives a monster calling at him, singing that executioner's song whilst he deals with the turmoil of a life where he feels like he doesn't belong and a love he is too afraid to feel or incapable of feeling. Country Noir author JW Lollar delivers a harsh brisk reality with gutwrenching characters in this his tenth novel.

When Marybeth Huston went missing into a tailspin goes the lives of our central cast of characters in what is JW Lollar's 13th novel. The aging passive Sheriff Gaines Huxley, who has never been much of a "policeman" finds himself unraveling the disappearance thus putting himself in a danger he's never known. A man name of Macavoy begins a vigilante justice on whom he thinks is involved beginning with Marybeth's ex boyfriend, a shady individual, and his nephew. Intricately woven stories pluck as ripe as a swollen tick full of blood with murderous prose and soaking in the fabric of depression...

Brenner Hale is an odd man. A dwarf. Alone in the world so cold. Along comes a man who offers Hale some work and what follows is a tailspin into a world he cannot find an escape tunnel out of when he gets crossed with a ruthless grifter who is of baby and a Father of the church with an uncanny form of rehabilitation on the devil's of the earth. This is the 12th Novel from JW Lollar. This book snatches you by the hand and yanks you deep into the abyss into the world of the Devil Hymn where fools die quickly and prayers and left unanswered. Lollar once again captures the beauties and the dwells...