Randy Russell

A Rooster Franklin Mystery

1 - Hot Wire (Apr-1989)
2 - Blind Spot (Aug-1990)
3 - Doll Eyes (Dec-2015)
4 - Caught Looking (Dec-1991)

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  Mountain Ghost Stories and Curious Tales of Western North Carolina
  

  • Aug-1988
  • / Horror
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  For centuries, the mountains of western North Carolina have inspired wonder and awe. It was only natural that man, after gazing at such scenic wonders, would turn some of the mystery he felt into legend. Sometimes these legends attempted to explai...

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  Hot Wire
  

  • Apr-1989
  • / Mystery
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  A Rooster Franklin Mystery - 1
  

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  Blind Spot
  

  • Aug-1990
  • / Mystery
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  A Rooster Franklin Mystery - 2
  

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  Caught Looking
  

  • Dec-1991
  • / Mystery
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  A Rooster Franklin Mystery - 4
  

  When her sister Marilyn's superstar pitcher husband loses his lucky golden glove, and with it his magic pitching arm, Carolyn calls on her long-time friend, Rooster Franklin, to find it and save her brother-in-law's career...

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  Dead Rules
  

  • Jun-2011
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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  Till death Jana Webster and Michael Haynes were in love. They were destined to be together forever. Do But Jana's destiny was fatally flawed. And now she's in Dead School, where Mars Dreamcote lurks in the back of the classroom, with his beg...

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  Ghost Cats of the South
  

  • Oct-2011
  • / Horror
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  Award-winning "ghostlorist" Randy Russell admits to being flummoxed by cats. Some cats will give you whisker kisses or sit with you when you're sick. Others will invite you to rub them, then take a swipe at you, claws out. Some might do any of the ab...

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  The Ghost Will See You Now
  

  • Oct-2014
  • / Fantasy
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  Organized as a state-by-state guide to known Southern hospital hauntings, "The Ghost Will See You Now" includes 40-plus ghost stories and lists of sightings at more than 160 haunted locations. In addition to the numerous hospital sightings, ghosts al...

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  Doll Eyes
  

  • Dec-2015
  • / Mystery
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  A Rooster Franklin Mystery - 3
  

  Rooster Franklin, the laid-back former car thief and mystery series hero introduced in Hot Wire , proves to be nothing but a patsy in this unsuccessful tale built on greed and love-blindness. Shortly before his prison sentence is up, Kansas City, Kan...

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  The Doughnuts
  

  • Dec-2020
  • / Literary
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  The Doughnuts is the story of one epic summer in the early 21st Century and the mysterious alignment of a tenuously connected group of novelists, screenwriters, filmmakers, and detectives. As each of them grapples with the latest of life's adventures...

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  Black Iris
  

  • Jan-2022
  • / Mystery
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  Mal Townley is a failed, small-town private investigator who is on the verge of throwing in the towel when a baffling case comes his way: the disappearance of the enigmatic Iris Black, an eccentric, young novelist and author of The Days of Wine. Ever...

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  Love, Lies, Bleeding
  

  • Sep-2022
  • / General Fiction
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  From infatuation to obsession, from bliss to heartbreak, romantic love is a force we all grapple with, try to understand, often live for, and sometimes die for. Love, Lies, Bleeding is a collection of stories, long and short, traditional and experime...

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  Sad as the Day I was Born
  

  • Oct-2023
  • / Literary
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  Sad as the Day I was Born encapsulates an offbeat world full of fascinating oddities. The narrative threads a bewildering journey of a man lost on a frozen lake, a crumbling TV docudramady, an eerie apartment building, a fast-food joint serving psych...

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