Deadly Halloween: Sam Hunt Novellas, #3

By Bob Moats

Sam Hunt was a decorated Vietnam Army sniper. He now lived in a quiet suburb outside of Detroit and yet he enters a battle for justice after his neighbor was murdered in what looked like a hit. Sam and his new Police Detective friend, Roland Royce, solved that case and are now tasked to find the killer of children by poisoned candy. Is this the return of the Halloween poisonings and needles of the 80's? Will they track down the killer before Halloween in two days. Sam does his best to help Royce as a C.I. as he tries to battle his own inner demons caused by PTSD and alcohol. This book is a novella, longer than a short story, but shorter than a novel.
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bob Moats
• Release date: Sep 18, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201574543

Bob Moats

Detroit area resident, Bob Moats, has been writing short stories and plays for as long as he can remember. He has lost most of his original stories, typed or handwritten, in the numerous moves he has made from his hometown of Fraser, Michigan to Northern Michigan, to Las Vegas and back to Fraser, where he now lives. Moats became one of the causalities of unemployment a year ago, and had time on his hands to finally pursue a life long dream of writing a full blown crime novel. Thus was born the first book, "Classmate Murders".What followed was a series of seven books starting with "The Classmate Murders" which introduces the main character, Jim Richards, who has to admit he has become a senior citizen, reluctantly. Richards, one day, receives an email from a childhood sweetheart asking for his help, but by the time he reaches her, she has been murdered. His life turns around and he is pulled into numerous murders of women from his high school who he hasn't seen in forty years. Along with a friend of his, Buck, a big, mustached biker, they go off to track down the killer before he can get to one former classmate, Penny Wickens, a TV talk show host who Jim has just fallen for while protecting her. The killer is also murdering the women right out from under police protection, driving homicide detective Will Trapper crazy, and he slowly depends on Jim to help. There's humor, suspense, wild chases across suburban Detroit with cops, classic cars and motorcycle clubs; murder, mayhem, a good amount of romance and a twist ending.Jim and his crime fighters, continue in the other books, traveling to Las Vegas twice, back to Detroit and out to New York to solve murders involving dominatrix; mistresses; Bridezillas; magic and strip clubs.Book titles: Classmate Murders; Vegas Showgirl Murders; Dominatrix Murders; Mistress Murders; Bridezilla Murders; Magic Murders; Strip Club Murders and Made-for-TV Murders.

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Website: http://murdernovels.com

Cover design by Bob Moats

Cover Art from Fotosearch

Extra special thanks to:

To Amy Morningstar for doing edits. To the Beta readers and Al Norris for reading the final copy and hopefully catching all those annoying little errors that slip through.

Thank you to all the people who purchased this story. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it for my faithful readers.

Chapter 1

The man wheezed loudly as he punctured the candy bar through the wrapper with the hypodermic needle. He squeezed the liquid into the bar and then pulled it out. The hole that the needle made was small enough to be unnoticeable and he continued with the rest of the candy from the bag. He was out of the liquid so he sat back and looked at the small pile of poisoned candy and smiled. He coughed out loudly and hard, trying to clean out the phlegm building in his throat. It finally loosened it and he spit out the mucus into a waste basket next to his desk.

Sam Hunt was creeping through the jungle brush with his Rifle at ready for any insurgents ahead of him. He turned back to see the soldier pointing a rifle at him as the man fired several times. Sam felt the bullets puncture his body and he went down. He screamed from his bed as he sat up in a sweat. His dog, Buddy came rushing up to him trying to lick his face.

Sam grabbed the dog, hugging him tightly. Damn, that was too real. He pushed the dog aside and felt his body for bullet holes, but found none. Buddy came back to him and Sam rubbed his head and said, It’s okay Buddy, I’m alive and well.

Sam swung his legs over the dog and sat on the edge of the bed. He glanced around the room to make sure he was safe. He looked