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Small towns can harbor dark secrets…

After the tragic death of her parents, ten-year-old Paige Hardgrave is sent to live with her grandfather on his ranch.

The pain doesn’t stop with the relocation though. Shortly after the move, Paige’s new friend is murdered by an unknown assailant.

With the police unable to find answers, the small town of Middlebury grows fearful and suspicious, itching to take vigilante justice on whoever they can blame.

A slain child, a missing murder weapon, a shattered community, family secrets, and second chances forge a twisted path through Kristopher Triana’s latest dark thriller.

Get lost in this mystery today!

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May 4, 2018
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Blood Bound Books; 1st edition (May 4, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 187 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1940250315
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1940250311
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.47 x 8.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #146,944 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Kristopher Triana
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Kristopher Triana is an author of horror and crime fiction.
His novels include "Full Brutal" (Winner of the 2019 Splatterpunk Award for Best Horror Novel), "Gone to See The River Man", "Shepherd of the Black Sheep", "The Thirteenth Koyote" and many more. He has authored two short story collections, "Blood Relations" and "Growing Dark", the latter of which was called "a must read" by Rue Morgue Magazine. His books have been translated into multiple languages, and his short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Chiral Mad 4, Cemetery Dance, and The Year's Best Hardcore Horror, to name a few.
His work has drawn praise from Publisher's Weekly, Scream Magazine, Rue Morgue Magazine, Cemetery Dance, The Horror Fiction Review and The Ginger Nuts of Horror.
He lives in Connecticut.
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Blood Bound Books
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Blood Bound Books is excited and grateful to celebrate ten years of publishing the best dark fiction from authors around the globe. We may be known for our extreme horror titles, but we publish everything from supernatural thrillers to crime fiction.
The Mission: Spreading Hope Through Dark Fiction
We accomplish this by organizing blood drives, providing classroom sets of age-appropriate dark fiction books to teachers, and donating profits of certain books to children's hospitals.
Please visit our website at www.BloodGutsAndStory.com to learn more
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John Rinaldi

Poor Tom!

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2022

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<i>"The things we do for family."</i>

Poor Tom! He's about to find out that family isn't always where the heart is!

Very good but it felt sloppy in parts and predictable. But I still enjoyed the creep factor of this one.

Recommended

Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2020

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After reading this book, I am very depressed. I figure d out early what was going on, but man that was horrible

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Kerriell

Great story.

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2018

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I really liked the excellent fleshing out of the main character. Having grown up in the country I could easily picture this guy as a neighbor. A very decent creepy read.

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Christine

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Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2019

My previous experiences with this author’s work (particularly Body Art) had me mentally braced for the most extreme of the extreme … and yet, having this one turn out to be much more quiet, subtle, emotional, suspenseful, and psychological was anything but disappointing.

It opens with two little girls playing in the woods, having whimsical fun, making up stories. Then something terrible happens, and only one little girl makes it home. This tragedy hits on the heels of being recently orphaned and sent to live with her widower grandfather, who’s dealing with his own grief as well as the unexpected challenge of trying to raise a pre-teen.

The last thing he wants is for her to endure more stress and trauma. But the investigation is underway, and she’s the sole witness, being questioned by detectives as well as therapists. There are mugshots and lineups to look at. The other girl’s distraught family is demanding answers, applying social and financial pressures, even making accusations. Then there’s the kids at school, how unkind they can be … and neighbors … people snooping around the house …

I read the whole thing in a single captivated sitting, eyes wide and almost breathless, repeatedly rocked and shocked even when I thought I knew where it was going. The loss and pain, the tension, the frustration, protective love, conflict, helplessness … this book hits strong on every mark.

Now, to be sure, when there are violent bits, they are VIOLENT violent bits, pulling no punches and taking no prisoners, not sparing the sensibilities about raw red horror and gore. And they work just so damn well against the gentler overall tone, making them all the more visceral and terrible.

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D. A. Barker

An Awful Bloody Book

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2018

“Shepherd of the Black Sheep’’ by Kristopher Triana: ISBN: 978-1940250-31-1 (Blood Bound Books)
‘This is an awful bloody book. But then, being a Blood Bound Books publication it couldn’t be anything else because Blood Bound Books specialise in publishing works on matters that are generally exceedingly bloody and awful.
The book might be described as a mystery thriller and, indeed, essentially, that is what it is. But yet, to call it such would be to do it a gross injustice because it is in fact a horror story of the very first degree minus ghouls and ghosts and general mumbo jumbo. Call it then a mystery thriller wrapped in a jet black cobwebbed shroud of decidedly chilling, decidedly disturbing evil woven by Mr Triana’s genius with the pen when it comes to such.
The setting is small town northern New England in winter. The weather is bone numbing cold; as chilling to the flesh as the events that occur are chilling to the soul. The focal point is old timer Ted Hargrave’s ranch which stands on the outskirts of town; a lonesome spot, nearest neighbour a good quarter mile off. A small girl is murdered on ranch land: multiple stab wounds to the guts and Ted’s eleven year old granddaughter, Paige, who is also his ward, escapes the same fate by a whisker fleeing from the killer in terror and screaming for her grandfather who, luckily, happens to be near.
There is an obvious suspect: a drifter, a dope head, recently caught prowling about the ranch and run out of town by the Sheriff. The case looks open and shut but subsequent events quickly prove that it isn’t. More killings occur, triggering spirals of fear and suspicion which culminate in a witch hunt, its victim, perversely, poor Paige. Old Ted, enduring an intensifying waking nightmare that would have broken a lesser man, rises to the occasion and fights for his ward, for his blood grandchild, against all comers. What’s the result of the conflict? That I’ll leave for the reader to find. But, be assured, this being a Blood Bound Book, the good guys don’t come out winners.
“Shepherd of the Black Sheep” by Kristopher Triana: (blood Bound Books) if you’re a fan of horror that isn’t stuffed full of ghosts and ghouls and mumbo jumbo this is one you’ll enjoy. I have to award it five black stars. No choice in the matter at all.

D. A. Barker, (author of “Killing for Christmas,” “What am I” and, in composition, “Suzanne.”)

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A solid book.

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2018

Wow! This is a quick read that kept me turning the pages. Tom is a good man. A rancher who works hard and does his best not to hurt anyone. A good neighbor. A recovering alcoholic who still feels the call of the bottle, but resists it at all costs. A kind person who’s lost everyone he loved: wife, sister, son… He has just become the legal guardian of his granddaughter, Paige. He is not given to big public displays of emotion and doesn’t know what to do with a little girl, but he tries his best. One day, Paige’s best friend is murdered right in front of her, and she is the only witness. When the police fail to find the culprit, the crime exposes many town secrets and the pressure on Tom starts building. As Tom’s life starts collapsing, he fears that Paige may not be telling the whole truth about the death of her friend. The plot is fantastic and the characters so real that they pop out of the pages. Some twists are not completely unexpected but that’s beside the point. What makes this an excellent novel is Tom himself. I just wanted him to be OK, to get out of trouble, to avoid getting more and more tangled. As I said, he is a good man, even when he’s doing the wrong thing… I don’t want to spoil the story, but if you care about character development and a tightly wound plot, you should read this book immediately.
I received a free copy from the Publisher, but I chose to read this book and all opinions in this review are my own and completely unbiased. Thank you, Blood Bound Books!

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