Bøger af Nash Black

Are the paranormal and supernatural connected to our physical world? Death is the great unknowable. Tales, legends, and myths have been told for centuries in the attempt to explain the chasm that is faced by every human being. The void of the death haunts us - it's our greatest fear. Nash Black explores recorded links to the paranormal, through the art of fiction, with seven short stories and one novella, promoting these tantalizing yet daunting questions. Is there a bridge between our physical world and the netherworld? Are those who have gone beyond or who have 'passed over' trying to close the gap between their realm and ours? Do the dead inhabit a parallel dimension where contact is possible and probable?

Evan Blade lives under an assumed name to hide a previous existence when he loved the wrong woman, trusted a partner, and killed an innocent man. He learned to work from shadows on the carnival circuits of his childhood. His stealth and skills serve him well as a private detective. Petra Isolta McIntyre, by the time she was six years old: had been kidnapped, sold on an underground baby market, had four different names, and witnessed three murders. Sheltered in obscure places by a valiant guardian, she returns to Capital City, Kentucky, after fifteen years, to find him near death in her kitchen. Evan inherits the guardianship of Petra, who, when he first learns the kid is a girl, describes her as "so sexless, she wouldn't attract a blind drunk in a dark bar." He juggles confetti-like fragments of information against time, to identify the deranged killer bent on eliminating every probable witness. Each direction Evan takes, point to an elected official, who is also his long-time employer with much to lose if Evan's digging unearths enough evidence to prove him guilty of murder. Can he find long buried answers to keep his promise to an old friend to protect Petra, especially when she ignores his efforts? Nash Black introduces a new private detective to the annals of crime fiction with the character, Evan Blade. Black steps back in time to 1979, to set the story against the background of a state capital, where politics and crime have long been bedfellows.

Adam Young is in the hospital fighting for his life. His brothers take on all comers with no holds barred action. Their loyalty to each other demands caution be thrown to the winds as they unit to render justice Ono County style. Jim, the runt of the litter, is promoted to leader of the pack when Adam was brutally beaten and left for dead. 10 year-old Adam had toted 3 month-old Jim in a sling on his back as he hoed tobacco to help their mother keep the family together after their father disappeared. Adam's neck bears ancient scars of a previous deadly attack, which he has kept hidden for a life-time under a turtle necked T-shirt. His purchased of the old farm where the brothers were born inadvertently opens the doors to two unsolved deaths. The purchase alerts a watcher from the shadows who believes murder is his means of cloaking his identity and protecting his empire of corruption. Catherine Throckton died under the wheels of a hit-and-run driver of a new Corvette Stingray as Jim watched from his apartment. Eight years later the car containing the mummified corpse of Justin Rogers, a teenager who disappeared the same night, is discovered in a barn. It isn't what is owed Adam and Catherine, both of whom made their lives easier, that brings the Young clan home to Ono County, but a sense of honor honed in an ancient code. Will an entrenched cover-up of murder survive a blind-side attack from not one, but seven Young bothers united in a common cause? The Young brothers are determined to use the weapons at their command to dig-out every rat hole to expose the depravity of extortion, fraud, and murder that haunts the living. They do not fight by the Marques of Queensberry's rules, but execute their own as they seek revenge and justice while staying one step ahead of the law. From the starting line to the finish line Jim Young and his brothers are back in the race with the petal slammed against he metal. The last time he was on the track he lost an eye, will this race co

Nash Black serves a baker's dozen of chilling tales of Ono County where death is a way of life. The dead haunt the living either in memory or as spirits unable to find their way home. He gives games of childhood an eerie twist that will send chills of memories down your spine as ghosts of the past invade the present. Innocent games of tag, jacks, jump rope, swings, and mumblety-peg spell doom for the children who play them. Who knows what lurks in the lake when a lone fisherman dips his line beneath the placid waters? Drag racing on a lonely country road spells disaster, while sanctioned snow mobile racing invites a deadly finish while told from by this award finalist ghost story writer. From beyond the grave a father fights to protect his heritage from golf course developers and not even a bulldozer will stop him. Ever spill your drink at a ballgame? You may have had unseen help as Nash Black explores the history of ghosts that still go out to the old ball game in the single non-fiction story of the collection. .

A Killer Stalks an Island ResortJim Young is banished to a desolate winter beach to rebuild his smashed feet and legs. His left eye and racing career vanished like the Sandprints of Death left in the sand by the waves with each turn of the tides. His brother, Matt suffered a broken shoulder during the game before the playoffs that would have taken the Vikings to Super Bowl X. His life as a professional football player ends when his contract was not renewed. Maud Tosh, a friend of their mother's, flees to the coast to escape the pressures of a lover and dispose of the ashes of an abusive husband. Maud and Jim discover the body of a female guest of the hotel buried under the stairs leading to the beach. Matt uncovers the garroted corpse of an FBI agent. Their best recourse is to stay on the sidelines though Maud is searching for answers. Against their will they are drawn deep and deeper into the morass of murder. Though they know the investigation is the domain of the authorities. Sheriff Thay Townsend's duty is to the hotel patrons and his family who own the hotel. Have the brothers and Mrs. Tosh told him all they know about the victims? Are they the catalyst that has brought death to his island home? Will their questions unearth secrets both present and past that are best left buried in the shifting sands? Will a killer cross their path while Sheriff Townsend is occupied battling the havoc wrought by a Nor'easter to the island? Time is running out faster than the tidal surges that scourge the salt marshes as they race to expose a killer before their vacation ends in death. Nash Black's cryptic descriptions in Sandprints of Death leap off the page to paint a stark picture of a barrier island's winter landscape where death is bent on closing all escapes.

How thin is the veil between myth and reality?Haints¿ ghost stories are the legends and lore of the Cumberland Plateau. Using the Cumberland River, which winds its way through Brewster County as binding twine, Nash Black weaves yarns of the probable and the plausible. Scientific fact, recorded history, and ecological observation exist side by side with superstition, cultural folklore, and myths.You will ask what is fact and what is fiction as each man tells his story according to his own understanding of the world of Haints. The stories are graphic examples of an oral tradition as old as the mountains of their origin when story telling was both an important means of passing on history and an evening¿s entertainment. ¿Wow, what a gripping, spell-binding collection.¿ ¿ Paula Vaccarino ¿I read ¿Don¿t Go There,¿ and truly think it is a fantastic story, as it sounds so realistic.¿ ¿ Dr. Lynwood Montell, Ghosts Along the Cumberland: Deathlore of the Kentucky Foothills, Kentucky¿s Haunted Houses and Family Ghosts, and other collections.

In days of yore, painters created portraits, writers penned stories, musicians composed and no one ever worried about being audited. In today's world, artists need to have business savvy. Yet so many find themselves long on creativity but short on tax knowledge, and organizational and marketing skills. Writing as a Small Business is the perfect guide to help artists navigate through the world of creative self-employment. In Writing as a Small Business, you'll learn: * Why it is to your advantage that the IRS considers you a small business * How to fill out tax forms* How to engage in recordkeeping that can make you audit-proof * How to handle advances on royalties, grants and gratuities* Why even rejection letters are valuable* How to protect your work and your computer from bugs* How to prepare for the future and protect your familyAnd in a section specially for writers Nash Black takes you into the world of publishing, where you learn what it takes to merchandise and sell your work. Writing as a Small Business¿the creative people's bible for those who work from their home. Nash Black has the skills and experience to start you on your way and guide you through the process of an IRS audit. Their work is the first book you should add to your reference shelf after a dictionary.Barbara Morgan, Morgan Real Estate, 47 years serving the housing needs of the Bluegrass, Lexington, KY.

Silence Is A Sentence Of Death...Secrets from the past have the power to destroy three lives. The smoldering rubble of a landmark hotel devours Marcy Lane's links to her daughter and career. The murder of her high school sweetheart prompts an ambitious prosecutor to indict her for the crime. Marcy implores Elton Fightmaster to defend her. Elton has loved her since childhood, but he is not prepared for the rigors of a criminal trial. Marcy asserts she did not murder Bill Leighton, but fails to provide him an acceptable alibi. She abandons him to learn the incriminating truth in court and confront the betrayal of his friends. Philip Andrews takes refuge behind an alcoholic haze of shame. Will he acquire the courage to risk his remaining family to expose the dreadful secrets he and Bill Leighton have guarded since the night they graduate from high school? Is Marcy Lane a vindictive woman seeking one last role of revenge or an innocent victim of those who would use her stardom to their own ends?