Violence in the Night
(2025)(A book in the Hondo and Magnolia series)
A Novella by Adam Taylor Barker
Despite the fact that Hondo tracked down and caught what authorities are calling The Fortune Teller Killer, Hondo isn't convinced that he got the right man. New clues take him to Houston where he meets his war interpreter, Zarak, who survived a traumatic ambush in the Sangin River Valley with Hondo years ago.
Together, they dig into cold cases that resemble the killings that occurred in Afghanistan and New Orleans. Parents killed. Bodies burned. Children taken. But most importantly, trophies left behind. Jewelry. Earrings, necklaces, watches. Always taken from a prior victim and left at the scene of a new crime.
A trail. Like breadcrumbs. Meant to be followed.
As Hondo and Zarak pull at the threads of a tapestry of tragedies, they unravel a truth so dark and dangerous that it threatens to undo not only what they believe about The Fortune Teller Killer, but what they believe about themselves.
Killing can be contagious.
Genre: Mystery
Together, they dig into cold cases that resemble the killings that occurred in Afghanistan and New Orleans. Parents killed. Bodies burned. Children taken. But most importantly, trophies left behind. Jewelry. Earrings, necklaces, watches. Always taken from a prior victim and left at the scene of a new crime.
A trail. Like breadcrumbs. Meant to be followed.
As Hondo and Zarak pull at the threads of a tapestry of tragedies, they unravel a truth so dark and dangerous that it threatens to undo not only what they believe about The Fortune Teller Killer, but what they believe about themselves.
Killing can be contagious.
Genre: Mystery