Showing results by author "Carter Swart" in All Categories

Dark Roads is a collection of journeys to dark places. Mysterious places where murder and mayhem happen to ordinary people under extraordinary circumstances. Suspenseful and thrilling, Dark Roads will haunt, intrigue, and entertain the listener.

Jim Nightingale is a law man used to chasing really bad men in the name of justice, but when he returns home from his posse after a long pursuit, his life is turned upside down. Nightingale is brought low, lower than he can live with so his answer is the pursuit of justice with a big dose of revenge.

Patrick Dunnigan, a successful gentleman gambler running a regular table game in a grand hotel in Kansas City, receives a disturbing letter from his uncle, Ethan Brooke. Seems the old man is spooked about developments in the little town of Sundown, New Mexico. Two local business men in town, Race Keene and Emmett Culpepper, are after the timber on Ethan’s property and his neighbors’ land. According to Ethan, the men have hired a group of gunslingers and thugs to pressure the farmer’s to give up their land. The tough old man is afraid for the first time in his life.

In the latest Lou Corso mystery, Lou Corso, a hard-drinking, hard-living ex-cop is confronted with a chance for a new life. When Lou's client Connie Terwilliger is threatened by her vicious husband Victor, Lou and the group of Good Samaritans who help him shelter battered women rescue Connie and put her in a safe house. After Connie is murderously attacked, Lou finds himself pulled between his current commitments and a decade-old list of cold cases involving murdered or missing women.

Deceived by Death introduces Lou Corso, a tough cop with a good heart, whose rage at his sister’s brutal killing shapes his behavior in a defining moment that ends a long and successful career in the LAPD. He and his partner have tracked a pair of psychotic brothers Lance and Todd Reno to a cabin hideaway. Their private torture chamber is currently occupied by a young girl who is about to die a slow, painful death.

Jim Sutter, a diminutive, sad-eyed drifter with a hidden past, rides into the South Dakota cowtown of Bitter Creek in a time of savage drought. Set upon and beaten by toughs, he is rescued by widowed rancher Jenny Olds, whom he soon comes to love. Jim decides to stay on with Jenny and soon finds himself in the middle of a blood feud between the powerful cattlemen's association and the sodbusters, led by fiery Lucas Brand. Hugh Tallant spearheads the fight for the ranchers, seeking to crush the sodbusters who control the vital Bitter Creek River.

Two best friends with (almost) the same name make a podcast! Join us as we discuss current events, pop culture, music, college, lots of books, and generally anything under the sun. We promise we'll keep the nerdy literature talk to a minimum!