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On a June night in 1856, a pro-slave gunman tried to silence The Sharon County Sentinel’s crusading Free State editor forever. Wounded and enraged, Emerson Knaule chased down his would-be assassin through the streets of Henrysville, Kansas, and wielding a righteous wooden mallet helped lay the foundation for civil war and a media empire with the legend born that night at The Skinning Tree.
Now veteran Iraq War newsman Michael McKane has backed away from his fast-track career in favor of small-town life and into Knaule’s legacy at the Sentinel. But Kansas never seems to stop bleeding. The bodies of young women are turning up with a serial killer’s calling card; local methamphetamine makers are mysteriously disappearing. “Mac” McKane wonders if courage is a thing of the past.
Heartfelt small town characters weave a tale that burns like a lit fuse. A town seeks salvation from terror, an editor tracks a killer, and a madman hungers for another victim; all under the shade of The Skinning Tree.
“...a gripping story that pulls the reader through a montage of subplots to a spectacular climax.” – The Iola Register
“ The Skinning Tree creates a cast of characters that strip the veneer from Henrysville, Kansas, to reveal a sordid sin city...a fast-paced – make that hurricane-paced – story of a newspaper editor in a small Kansas town...” – Emerson Lynn, The Iola Register
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Like A Whisper For Help before it, The Skinning Tree turns over the rocks of
small town America to give readers an unflinching peek underneath... Anyone
with experiences in small towns is going to see people they know – or
maybe themselves – in The Skinning Tree.”
– Kevin Dilmore, author of A Time to Sow and
A Time to Harvest
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