Thunder Moon — Richard Helms

Tempers flare during the searing summer months in rural Prosperity, North Carolina. A series of apparently unrelated crimes unified by a single vengeful entity that has descended on Prosperity like a suffocating black cloud. The bodies begin to pile like winter cordwood, and the only thing standing between a deadly onslaught and Prosperity's descent into chaos is the steady-eyed, broad-shouldered figure of Chief Judd Wheeler.