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Bury Me in Shadows Kindle Edition

by Greg Herren (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
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After landing in the hospital after a bad breakup and an ensuing drug-and-alcohol binge, college student Jake Chapman is given two options: rehab, or spend the summer at his dying grandmother’s decaying home in rural Alabama. The choice is obvious.

His grandmother’s land has been in Jake’s family since the early nineteenth century; the ruins of the old plantation house are a short walk through the woods behind her home. An archaeological team is excavating the ruins, looking for evidence to prove an old family legend—and there’s a meth lab just over the ridge.

Once Jake is there, he begins having strange experiences—flashes of memory, inexplicable emotions—that he can’t explain, and he keeps seeing something strange out in the woods. As he explores his family history, he uncovers some dark secrets someone—or something—is willing to kill to keep hidden.
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Greg Herren is a New Orleans-based author and editor. He is a co-founder of the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival, which takes place in New Orleans every spring. He is the author of thirty-three novels, including the Lambda Literary Award winning Murder in the Rue Chartres, called by the New Orleans Times-Picayune “the most honest depiction of life in post-Katrina New Orleans published thus far.” He co-edited Love, Bourbon Street: Reflections on New Orleans, which also won the Lambda Literary Award. His young adult novel Sleeping Angel won the Moonbeam Gold Medal for Excellence in Young Adult Mystery/Horror, and Lake Thirteen won the silver. He co-edited Night Shadows: Queer Horror, which was shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award.

He has published over fifty short stories in markets as varied as Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine to the critically acclaimed anthology New Orleans Noir to various websites, literary magazines, and anthologies. His erotica anthology FRATSEX is the all time best selling title for Insightout Books. He has worked as an editor for Bella Books, Harrington Park Press, and now Bold Strokes Books.

A longtime resident of New Orleans, Greg was a fitness columnist and book reviewer for Window Media for over four years, publishing in the LGBT newspapers IMPACT News, Southern Voice, and Houston Voice. He served a term on the Board of Directors for the National Stonewall Democrats, and served on the founding committee of the Louisiana Stonewall Democrats. He is currently employed as a public health researcher for the NO/AIDS Task Force, and served four years on the board of directors for the Mystery Writers of America.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09GL4VTDW
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bold Strokes Books (October 12, 2021)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 12, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1277 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 255 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1635559936
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 44 ratings

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GREG HERREN is an award-winning New Orleans author and editor. He writes two mystery series--the Chanse MacLeod and Scotty Bradley novels--and also writes young adult fiction.

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Gary Johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars Thrilling and intense
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2021
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I'm not into first books but this was not. U This was a page Turner until the end. Boy loses boy and boy gets
Boy. Make was sent by his mom down g to Alabama date getting caught with drugs! It was neither or psych help.jack has trial s and situations that were y in test but ed up well after reading about Scotty and then Change this was a great distraction. If you like Greg's moves cu about the south you will love this.
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Paul inMass
5.0 out of 5 stars Another Winner
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2022
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Greg Herren is a favorite author and again he didn’t disappoint. Bury Me in Shadows pills you into the world Greg created and challenges your perceptions of Race, Parenting, Family, Homophobia, Self-expression and the Supernatural.
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John Bowker
5.0 out of 5 stars Bury me in Shadows is a book well worth reading.
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2022
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I have read other by Greg Herren but I think this is by far the best I have read of his books.
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Guy
5.0 out of 5 stars thriller
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2022
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Love all of Greg Herren books; this was by far my favorite. This story intertwines ghost, race, hate and love!
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S. White
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read!
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2023
A really good ghost story horror book. I finished it in two days and loved every minute of it. Give it a read.
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So Many Wonderful Books
5.0 out of 5 stars His best yet! (And that's saying a lot!)
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2021
I am always waiting for the next book by Greg Herren, and ordered this as soon as I saw it. It's really one of his best - if not the best. It's a page turner for sure but you also get to know the characters and care for them too! Keep them coming Greg!
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CA rez
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterful, engrossing mystery
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2021
A beautifully written page turner of a Southern Gothic mystery. I couldn't put it down.
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Rob Osler
5.0 out of 5 stars Scintilating Southern Mystery That Brings the Heat
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2022
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This book was spooky and immersive. Jake, a troubled college guy, winds up staying for a summer at his grandma's creepy, steamy, back-woods-Alabama house that has seen better days. In fact," seeing the past" figures predominately in this well-crafted story as no sooner does Jake move into the house than he starts reliving memories, seeing apparitions, and feeling ill. Ghost story? Family drama? Murder mystery? Romance? Historical? Dark and sinister suspense? Yes x 6. And so much more. Greg Herren manages to weave elements of several genres into one highly successful yarn that hooked me at page one, kept me on the edge of my seat throughout, and left me shaken, yet hopeful, at the close.
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