All things hidden eventually come to light - it's only a matter of when. In the thrilling sequel to The Hell's Half Acre Chase, CSIS Agent Noa Sinclair is in too deep with the infamously dangerous and ever-expanding Niagara Company. But he has yet to figure out the means behind the mob's seemingly prophetic insider trading, or Sebastian Nové's strategy, and his superiors are getting frustrated. As he digs further to uncover the truth, Noa gets roped into more than he bargained for. Both he and Sebastian cannot seem to outrun their pasts... This is the second book in the series For Part 1, check out the Hell's Half Acre Chase!
Imagine you picked up a regular newspaper one morning to find that it showed tomorrow's news. What would you do? Noa Sinclair is a recent graduate of the enigmatic St. Isidore Home for gifted children. By less than proper means, he lands a job in the Canadian Intelligence Service and becomes fixated on the Niagara Company: an incredibly powerful and efficient criminal syndicate making its mark along the US/Canadian border. He infiltrates the Niagara Co., hoping to uncover their secrets. On the other side of the cat-and-mouse chase is Sebastian Nové, the young and suave boss of the Niagara Co., who has in his possession a newspaper that always prints one day ahead. But a past connection and a hidden motive may throw Noa’s case into disarray. Will he find out what it is before it’s too late? This is the FIRST book in a TWO part series! Stay tuned for book 2: The Hell's Half Acre Trade.
A historical novel about "the Paris of the Plains," a part of Fort Worth known as the most dangerous strip of land west of the Mississippi for nearly three decades, captures a place where there are twice as many whorehouses as churches and more murders per square yard than anywhere else along the frontier. Original.
A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial killers in Kansas, whose horrifying crimes gripped the attention of a nation still reeling from war. In 1873 the people of Labette County, Kansas made a grisly discovery. Buried by a trailside cabin beneath an orchard of young apple trees were the remains of countless bodies. Below the cabin itself was a cellar stained with blood. The Benders, the family of four who once resided on the property were nowhere to be found. The discovery sent the local community and national newspapers into a frenzy that continued for decades, sparking an epic manhunt for the Benders. The idea that a family of seemingly respectable homesteaders—one among the thousands relocating farther west in search of land and opportunity after the Civil War—were capable of operating "a human slaughter pen" appalled and fascinated the nation. But who the Benders really were, why they committed such a vicious killing spree and whether justice ever caught up to them is a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. Set against the backdrop of postbellum America, Hell’s Half-Acre explores the environment capable of allowing such horrors to take place. Drawing on extensive original archival material, Susan Jonusas introduces us to a fascinating cast of characters, many of whom have been previously missing from the story. Among them are the families of the victims, the hapless detectives who lost the trail, and the fugitives that helped the murderers escape. Hell’s Half-Acre is a journey into the turbulent heart of nineteenth century America, a place where modernity stalks across the landscape, violently displacing existing populations and building new ones. It is a world where folklore can quickly become fact and an entire family of criminals can slip through a community’s fingers, only to reappear in the most unexpected of places.
