Six Deadly Dramas - E-book - ePub

Technically, the six novels in this anthology are not dramas in the classical sense of the word with actors following a written script; rather, the word drama is being used here as it is when one talks of a courtroom drama. In order of appearance, this anthology contains a tragic drama, a sarcastic drama, a gothic drama, a sexual drama, a courtroom drama, and a metaphysical drama. In the space allowed, I will give brief descriptions of these novels, but if you would like more complete descriptions, you can obtain them in the Kindle store under the separate listings for each book.
Midnight on Death Row: A shooting in 2006 by two eighteen-year-old students at a high school in Georgia leaves nineteen dead. One of the perpetrators is killed at the scene, while the other, Karyn Hill, is arrested. After she is sentenced to death, her mother and sister struggle with vastly different feelings about her possible execution. In the end, the tragedy inherent in the senseless murder of nineteen people overwhelms everyone in a tidal wave of grief.
In Destroyed by Malice, the world's most famous novelist, Barker Drule, is gunned down by an unknown assailant. It isn't long before detective Jeff Willard is convinced that the murderer is a member of the Drule family. Perhaps it's Lenore who was raped by her father; perhaps it's the beautiful Raylene who wrote a novel that her father managed to suppress; or perhaps it's Ricky, his cocaine-addicted son, who is desperate to get his hands on his father's fortune.
The Blackwater Journal: Sixteen-year-old Alanda Streets is trapped in a room from which there is no escape. There are padlocks on the door, the windows have been boarded up, and Alanda's only contact with humanity is her father, the man who has imprisoned her and told her that she must die because of the terrible secret she discovered in his past. Is there any way out of her terrifying predicament? Or is her life about to come to an end?The Dark Side of the Moon: Carolyn Black, a high school teacher, is attracted to Kevin Snyder, a student in one of her classes.
Kevin doesn't realize that Carolyn is attracted to him, but everything changes after they make love in the back seat of Carolyn's car. Two weeks later, Carolyn discovers that Kevin is involved in drugs, but when she tells him that she is ending their relationship, he threatens to commit suicide. That night, Carolyn changes her mind about Kevin and desperately searches for him before he has a chance to harm himself.
When she finally finds him in his car behind an abandoned house, he is holding a gun to his head. And then.In The Trial of Eugene Bishop, a black undercover cop is accused of shooting a white man to death. After initialing denying any involvement in Derek's death, Eugene changes his story and claims that he shot Derek when he was threatened with lethal force. But the evidence at the scene doesn't seem to support his claim of self-defense, and he is charged with first degree murder.
In the end, the results are not quite as clear as some might like, but this only means that the reader is the real juror in this very challenging case where the scales of justice are so evenly balanced between the competing forces of the law and the safety of innocent people. In The Book of the Dead, a woman interested in psychic phenomena begins to hear a man's voice. The voice is from a man named Daren Slade, and he begins his narrative with the futile attempt he made to save a drowning woman.
Later, at his 25th high school reunion, he reconnects with his high school sweetheart, Savannah Cross.that night, they begin a tumultuous drive during which they become involved in a number of bizarre incidents before they return to the river where Daren attempted to save the drowning woman. Here, he encounters.