A Murder in Knoxville — Wayne Zurl

Sam Jenkins is the new police chief in town and everyone wonders, will Prospect, Tennessee ever be the same? A Labor Day Murder and A Murder In Knoxville take the reader into the world of domestic violence with a smattering of political corruption. In Bullets Off-Broadway, the investigation leads Sam into the life of a victim who spent his leisure time reenacting the days of the old west and was killed with an antique revolver. The hard-boiled story of Scrap Metal And Murder begins with a simple larceny and quickly escalates into the murder of a building contractor, infidelity and more suspects than you can shake a claw hammer at. And the off-beat stories, By The Horns Of A Cow and its sequel Serpents & Scoundrels show the more bizarre side of police work as Jenkins looks for a stolen fourteen-foot-tall statue of a dairy cow and ends up among a group of snake handling fundamentalists who use their serpents in a deadly manner.