Ohio, 1979.
The late 1970s are the era of the serial killer.
There are no cell phones, no GPS, and no internet. Law enforcement agencies still rely on analog methods to track suspects and share information. Many Americans think nothing of hitchhiking, while the concept of ‘stranger danger’ is only beginning to enter the national consciousness.
It is an environment predators can easily exploit.
Milton Jones is a self-employed plumber in rural Ohio and the single father of a teenage daughter named Judy.
Beneath his barn lies a converted root cellar—a secret prison chamber Milton calls the Dungeon.
In the spring of 1979, Milton crosses the line from fantasy to unspeakable crime, when he kidnaps a young woman and locks her beneath the earth.
As Judy begins to suspect the terrible truth about her father, she finds herself facing an impossible choice:
Will she become Milton’s accomplice—or the only person capable of stopping him?
The Dungeon is the first installment in Deadly Byways, a six-book suspense series inspired by actual crimes from a bygone era.
Genre: Mystery
The late 1970s are the era of the serial killer.
There are no cell phones, no GPS, and no internet. Law enforcement agencies still rely on analog methods to track suspects and share information. Many Americans think nothing of hitchhiking, while the concept of ‘stranger danger’ is only beginning to enter the national consciousness.
It is an environment predators can easily exploit.
Milton Jones is a self-employed plumber in rural Ohio and the single father of a teenage daughter named Judy.
Beneath his barn lies a converted root cellar—a secret prison chamber Milton calls the Dungeon.
In the spring of 1979, Milton crosses the line from fantasy to unspeakable crime, when he kidnaps a young woman and locks her beneath the earth.
As Judy begins to suspect the terrible truth about her father, she finds herself facing an impossible choice:
Will she become Milton’s accomplice—or the only person capable of stopping him?
The Dungeon is the first installment in Deadly Byways, a six-book suspense series inspired by actual crimes from a bygone era.
Genre: Mystery
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