The Catskill Mountains are rich in folklore, legends, and
tales of the supernatural. Once guided by ghosts, Dan Stone doesn’t disbelieve
what can’t be explained. And there’s no logical reason for the patch of
blighted ground beside a boulder near Hemlock Lake . Known as the Devil’s
Tombstone , the rock marks the spot where, two centuries earlier, a man
murdered his young wife and then disappeared.

As a part-time investigator assigned to cold cases, Dan
is troubled by more recent deaths and disappearances. Reviewing files dating
back two decades, he sets out to discover new leads. But it’s slow going. A
massive snowstorm socks the mountains. Dan’s infant son disrupts his sleep. And
dynamic preacher Wesley Falton pitches his revival tent, challenging Hemlock
Lake traditions and the spiritual leadership of Reverend James Balforth. As Dan
digs deeper into the past, he suspects his cold cases are linked to a fresh
murder. When hard evidence eludes him, he appeals for help from beyond the
grave. As he does, he wonders whether ghosts make their presence felt because
we believe in them, or because they believe in us.

The answer may lie at the Devil’s Tombstone.

This book is available at Amazon. 

Carolyn J. Rose grew up in New York’s Catskill Mountains,
graduated from the University of Arizona, logged two years in Arkansas with
Volunteers in Service to America, and spent 25 years as a television news
researcher, writer, producer, and assignment editor in Arkansas, New Mexico,
Oregon, and Washington. She lives in Vancouver, Washington, and her interests
are reading, gardening, swimming, and NOT cooking.

Find out more about her and her books at http://www.deadlyduomysteries.com. Or look for Carolyn on
Goodreads, Twitter and Facebook. 

Arson. Murder. Vengeance. Betrayal. Love. Loss.
Redemption.

For generations only a few families held title to land in the isolated Catskill
Mountain community of Hemlock Lake. But with the turning of the century one
man, lured by easy money, sells his inheritance to a developer of luxury homes.
As the contractor bulldozes farmland and forest, neighbors cry environmental
rape, and someone threatens to burn what is built.

Hoping to stop the arsonist, but tormented by personal demons, Sergeant Dan
Stone reluctantly returns to his family home on the shores of the lake. The
previous autumn his wife died in its dark waters and his brother put a bullet
in his brain. That tragedy sent Dan’s father drifting toward death.

Isolated by his pain, and haunted by the ghosts of his wife and brother, Dan is
thrust into the no man’s land between newcomers and longtime residents who
stonewall his investigation into threats, graffiti, theft, and a blaze that
nearly kills the construction foreman. Townspeople blame outsiders,
eco-terrorists, a ragged tramp haunting the woods and the mysterious creator of
rock cairns that often mark the sites of crimes to come. But as summer sizzles
on, the arsonist turns killer, and Dan suspects it’s someone he knows well: a
firefighter, a friend, or a woman with a killing in her past.

This book is available at Amazon. 

Seven months after cheating death in the dark waters of
Hemlock Lake, Dan Stone discovers a search dog trainer and his dogs shot down
at a remote cabin in the Catskill Mountains. Only one young dog, badly wounded,
survives the attack. No longer wearing a badge and intent on rebuilding the
family home and making a life with Camille, Dan feels an obligation of blood to
Clarence Wolven, a distant relative. He arranges the funeral and adopts the
three-legged dog he names Nelson. When the sheriff’s investigation stalls, Dan
returns to the cabin with Jefferson Longyear. They feel the presence of
Clarence’s angry ghost and Nelson bolts into the forest. Trailing him deep into
rugged “forever wild” land, they discover a serial killer’s dump site.
That grisly find is just the first. As summer wears on, Dan suspects the killer
is taunting him and may even be someone he knows. Goaded by a ghost he only
half believes in, Dan is drawn deeper into the investigation until his life and
that of a young girl depend on a dog’s loyalty and a sniper’s aim.

This book is available at Amazon.

If you live in the PNW (Portland Oregon/Vancouver
Washington) area join us for a book celebration for ‘The Devil’s Tombstone’ by Carolyn
J. Rose and ‘Meet Your Baker’ by Ellie
Alexander January 31st 1-3 pm at Vintage Books at 6613
E. Mill Plain Blvd, Vancouver, WA 98661. We will also have giveaways with gift
cards, baking supplies and books! 

Killers and Cozies—From serial killers stalking their
victims in the deep words to a cozy murder at a family bakeshop, come join two
Pacific Northwest authors as they chat about crime writing.

This event was organized by CBB Book Promotions.