[Murders Among Dead Trees 01] • Murders Among Dead Trees

Everything appears normal until you look closer. This is classic Bad versus Evil: the definitive, and last, collection of short suspense by crime novelist Robert Chazz Chute. Two-thirds of this volume appeared in previous ebooks (The Dangerous Kind & Other Stories and Sex, Death & Mind Control). Now revamped and revved up with commentary, sneak peeks and plenty of new stories that often intertwine, meet compelling characters caught in fever dreams.

What to expect? A crush is headed for a crash when a suicidal teacher wakes to find a seductive student watching her. A boy finds forgiveness for his father at the bottom of the ocean. A deadly god walks among us (and he's not happy.) A social worker discovers a mentally ill woman whose dark power might be infectious. Patients are pitted against psycho psychotherapists with varied results. The novella, The Dangerous Kind, is a Stephen Kingesque journey about two brothers who lose themselves in Maine woods. Only one brother will return home.

Sometimes paranormal and sometimes gritty and real, these are revenge fantasies run amok. The angst-ridden confront their darkest impulses. Delusions (and a few people) are murdered. Some are doomed. Few escape. Truth redeems.