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Anthony M. Strong

An impossible killer stalks the Bayou…
 
NYPD detective John Decker thinks his family’s dark past is behind him when he’s offered the job as town sheriff in his sleepy southern hometown. Happy for a change in scenery, and a quieter way of life, he accepts the position.
 
But when a pair of mutilated bodies are found in the woods just days before a massive storm is due to make landfall, the similarities dredge up the horrific memories of his mother’s unsolved murder almost thirty years ago. A murder that drove his father to madness and an early grave, and John to abandon his high school sweetheart and escape to New York.
 
The Medical Examiner insists that the killer cannot be human…but that’s ridiculous. There are no large predators in the area. The men were clearly targeted by someone…or something.
 
As the skies darken and the weather worsens, more bodies pile up.
 
But what is the connection? He must find out who—or what—is behind these attacks. Because if he doesn’t, the next victim might, once again, be someone he loves…

Dalan Decker

West Street Publishing

John Decker Supernatural Thrillers

What Vengeance Comes

A murdered billionaire. A priceless statue. A reclusive cult.
 
In New York City, Homicide Detective John Decker arrives at a brutal crime scene. A man has been tortured and murdered in his own house, a sprawling mansion on the Upper East Side. But this is no ordinary home invasion. Nothing has been taken, and there appears to be no motive. Until beautiful Egyptologist Emma Wilson shows up with an enigmatic letter penned by the victim.
 
Soon Decker is thrust into a shadowy world of ancient beliefs, fanatical cults, and the quest for a priceless artifact – a rare statue of the Egyptian god Anubis.
 
Now, with their lives in grave danger, Decker and Emma must solve the mystery of the statue, and stay one step ahead of a cult with one thing on their minds, the return of their god, and the judgment of all mankind.

Jet Malakai

Soul Catcher

The bogeyman is real.
 
In a tunnel deep beneath an Alaskan mountain, a man is brutally murdered.
 
Just one in a series of grisly deaths, it is not long before whispers grow that the Qalupalik, a terrifying creature born from centuries of superstition and fear, has come to wreak havoc on the small coastal town of Shackleton, Alaska.
 
With no way to stop the slayings, the town turns to disgraced ex-cop John Decker, hoping he can do what they could not. The assignment, far from his native Louisiana, might be just what Decker needs to put the past behind him. But as the bodies mount and the town grows frantic, Decker realizes that whatever is on the loose is no mere superstition. The bogeyman is real, and it's up to him to stop it.
 
Cold Sanctuary is part of the John Decker series of novels. However, each book is a stand-alone story and does not require you to have listen to the other books in the series.

Cold Sanctuary

John Decker finds himself up against a relentless foe!
 
Deep in the Florida woodlands, a pair of recreational divers are attacked and killed. Miles away, a research team captures an impossible sight on their remote-operated submersible. Meanwhile, a team of bank robbers speeds toward their Florida hideout.
 
As deaths mount, ex-sheriff John Decker is called from a much-needed vacation by a longtime friend, to help a baffled police department track an impossible enemy. Thrust into one of the most dangerous situations of his life, Decker must combat not only a ruthless killer but a cadre of criminals with nothing to lose.
 
And the stakes could not be higher, because if Decker fails, it could lead not only to his own death but the demise of the woman he loves.

Crimson Deep

A terrifying force unleashed on the Irish countryside.
 
Under a ruined monastery near the quaint village of Clareconnell, a labyrinth of caves hides a dark secret. The remains of Grendel. Defeated by Beowulf and entombed there by the Danes, he has remained hidden for 1000 years, guarded first by warriors, then by monks, and finally by the villagers themselves.
 
But nothing stays lost forever.
 
A team of archaeologists are excavating the monastery and searching for his grave. Because Grendel’s bones may hold the key to a medical breakthrough that could change the world.
 
When John Decker, newly recruited to the shadowy organization called CUSP, arrives in the Emerald Isle to retrieve the bones, he discovers that there’s more to this idyllic village than meets the eye. For Clareconnell has a dark and shameful past, and now that the caves have been opened, the villagers must pay for their sins…

Grendel's Labyrinth

An impossible killer stalks the streets of London.
 
Jack the Ripper faded into history over a century ago, his identity lost to the ages. Until a work crew restoring a Mayfair home make a shocking find. A secret basement room walled up since Victorian times. The Whitechapel murderer's lair. And inside, a corpse that has waited in silent darkness for over a hundred years. But it won't stay that way…
 
Within hours of the room's discovery, the body goes missing, and the murders begin anew.
 
With a violent killer on the loose and the body count rising, John Decker, still new to CUSP, is sent to England, along with seasoned operative Colum O'Shea. Their mission: stop a ruthless monster from obtaining the one thing that will allow him to escape forever.
 
As the city huddles in fear and the terror mounts, Decker finds himself in a race against time to catch a hellish fiend smarter than any he has ever faced. Because if he doesn't, the next death might hit a little too close to home.

Whitechapel Rising

A secret mission. A horror beyond imagination.
 
In the last months of World War II, the German Navy premiered a new and terrifying weapon. A submarine of incredible range that could strike anywhere, anytime. And it did, prowling the shipping lanes night and day, and striking fear into the Allies. It was just what Hitler needed to turn the tide of war.
 
Until it disappeared without a trace.
 
Now, more than seven decades later, the wreck of a previously unknown U-Boat has been found off the South American coast. A submarine so well preserved that it shouldn’t exist. Eager to learn its secrets, a team of marine archaeologists arrive at a unique seafloor habitat to study the wreck up close. But something has survived on the empty sub. A dark and terrifying presence.
 
Answering the panicked researcher’s distress call, CUSP sends John Decker to assess the situation. What he finds on the cold and lonely ocean floor is unlike anything he has seen before. A horror from the blackest days of the war. And it doesn’t want them to leave. At least, not alive.
 
This is book six in the John Decker series, but it can be listened to as a stand-alone novel.

Black Tide

In the darkness they wait, patient, hungry…
 
They are found huddled together in a frontier mineshaft. Three mummified corpses sitting near a vein of gold so rich it would have made them wealthy. Yet they never tried to leave. Instead, they sat down and starved to death rather than walk out.
 
When Robyn Miller inherits her father's share of an old ghost town in Nevada that has been in the family for generations, she decides to pack up and make a new life by creating a one-of-a-kind wedding venue and tourist attraction.
 
Eager to put her plans into action, she hires a trio of geologists to survey the crumbling gold mine so that she can start offering tours. But only one of them makes it out alive, and he brings with him a tale of mummified corpses and seams of gold.
 
He also tells of a creature deep in the tunnels. A beast with glowing red eyes that attacked them, killing his companions and almost murdering him.
 
The local police, unable to find answers, call in the FBI, who in turn ask CUSP for help. When John Decker arrives in the remote mining town he finds a terrifying adversary that dates all the way back to the Gold Rush, and an ancient legend come to life.
 
This is book seven in the John Decker series, but it can be read as a standalone novel.

Ghost Canyon

Deep in the Amazon jungle, a world beyond imagination.
 
In the dense and dangerous Amazon, the crew of the supernatural reality series, Cryptid Quest, makes a stunning discovery. A Bronze Age fortress of Mayan design, hidden by impenetrable jungle and far from where it should be. But that’s not all. They also find tantalizing evidence of Egyptian and Greek influence—An impossible collision of ancient cultures that leaves them baffled. Then, without warning, they disappear without a trace.
 
Determined to find out what happened, John Decker travels to South America. Arriving in the humid Amazonian jungle, he joins a team of specialists pulled together from all corners of the globe, including a ghost from his past—An old flame he thought was out of his life forever.
 
But this is the least of Decker’s worries because when the group treks deep into the overgrown and unexplored jungle, they find themselves trapped in a forgotten land where death lurks around every corner, and the nightmares of the ancient world live on. Cut off from civilization, and under siege, they must solve the riddle of the ancient ruins and find a way out, or die trying…
 
This is book eight in the John Decker series, but it can be read as a standalone novel.

Cryptid Quest

An island with a secret, deep inside the Bermuda Triangle.
 
After a tumultuous year, the last thing on John Decker’s mind when he and his fiancée, Nancy, arrive on the tropical island paradise of Singer Cay, is the Bermuda Triangle. He’s about to marry the woman he loves, surrounded by friends and family. A well-earned break and a dream destination wedding.
 
But Singer Cay hides a dark and mysterious past. There’s the abandoned resort on the far side of the island, where another bride vanished on her own wedding night one hundred years ago, during a storm that blew up out of nowhere.
 
A quarter century later, as thunder rumbled and lightning split the sky, a squadron of Navy torpedo bombers on a routine training exercise flew over the island and vanished into thin air.
 
Now another deadly storm is rolling in, a violent tempest with the power to separate Decker and Nancy before they can even say I do, and plunge them deep into the heart of the Bermuda Triangle…

Last Resort

John Decker has never been so far from home…
 
Alone in the year 1911 and stranded in London, John Decker searches for Mina, whom he fears is trapped in the past along with him. Instead, he finds the precursor to CUSP, an organization known as The Order of St. George. And when he does, it raises more questions than answers.
 
Meanwhile, in a village on the city's outskirts, something terrifying has been released. A supernatural force that drives people to murder.
 
Agreeing to help the Order, Decker arrives in the tiny hamlet of Mavendale to investigate, where he finds an abandoned workhouse shuttered decades before, a history soaked in blood, and a malevolent entity looking for victims…

Dark Force

The Ghost of Christmas Past is waiting…
 
It's Christmas in 1911, and John Decker is stuck in London, far from those he loves. When he gets invited to a holiday party at a manor house in the country, he reluctantly agrees to go, expecting a quiet few days of holiday cheer.
 
But Blackthorn Manor is not just any country house. It hides a dark secret from centuries past, and a restless spirit that never left.
 
After a seance designed to entertain the guests, a ten-year-old boy goes missing, and Decker finds himself embroiled in a deadly mystery spanning the ages.
 
A Ghost of Christmas Past is a complete standalone story.

John Decker Supernatural Thrillers - The book series

John Decker Supernatural Thrillers - The book series

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