Julia Keller

Phone calls before dawn are never good news. And when you're the county's prosecuting attorney, calls from the sheriff are rarely good news, either....

What’s happening in Acker’s Gap, West Virginia? Three elderly men are gunned down over their coffee at a local diner, and seemingly half the town is there to witness the act.....

Deep in the woods just outside Acker's Gap, West Virginia, rises a ragged chunk of what was once a high stone wall. This is all that remains of Wellwood, a psychiatric hospital for the poor that burned to the ground decades ago....

The first drug overdose comes just after midnight, when a young woman dies on the dirty floor of a gas station bathroom....

Royce Dillard doesn't remember much about the day his parents - and one hundred and 23 other souls - died in the 1972 Buffalo Creek disaster. He was only two years old....

How far would you go for someone you love? Would you die? Would you kill? After a three-year prison sentence, Bell Elkins is back in Acker's Gap. And she finds herself in the white-hot center of a complicated and deadly case....

High summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia - but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the small town and its hard-luck inhabitants....

In a radiant world of endless summer, the Intercept keeps the peace. Violet Crowley, the 16-year-old daughter of New Earth’s Founding Father, has spent her life in comfort. Her days are easy thanks to the Intercept, a crime-prevention device that monitors emotion. Listen for more....

From the small towns of Appalachia they came, the young men who joined the fight for liberty in World War II. Now they are elderly....

Soon after its debut at the time of the Civil War, the Gatling gun changed the nature of warfare and the course of world history....

New Earth, 2296. Two years after the destruction of a universal surveillance system called the Intercept, New Earth struggles to keep crime under control....

The second in the Bell Elkins crime series from Pulitzer-prize winner Julia Keller....

A high-end resort being built on the outskirts of Acker's Gap, West Virginia, a town desperate for jobs and prosperity, should have been welcome....

Nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, visitors see only its stunning natural beauty. But for those living there it's a different story....