No Train Leaves Blackwood Junction
A Noir Thriller

About this book:

The rain at Blackwood Junction doesn't fall—it clings, soot-thick and greasy, coating the platform where the 10:14 express should be pulling away. Instead, the engine's fire is doused, the brakes lock tight, and Station Master Gregory Vance declares the line closed by order of a management no one has seen. Exiled detective Silas Vance didn't come to this godforsaken mountain stop for a mystery; he came to disappear. But the telegraph is tapping nonsense from a station abandoned five years ago, the station master is sealing every exit with chains and padlocks, and the fog pressing against the waiting-room windows isn't weather. It's waiting.

Stranded with a traveling salesman counting losses, a preacher counting prayers, and a woman in a green coat who knows far more than she's saying, Silas has until dawn to learn why the signals are all red—even the ones that don't exist. The tracks vanish into black timber. The river has swallowed the only road out. And Gregory Vance holds keys that don't just open doors. They keep things locked in.

No train leaves Blackwood Junction. But something else might.