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At dawn in the rail town of Slate Ridge, a ticket clerk is found dead on the station platform-shot clean, left where everyone can see, and quickly forgotten by a town that survives on silence. Gideon Cross steps off a train with no badge and no reason to stay-except that someone noticed something they weren't meant to, and paid for it in blood. Freight goes missing. Schedules don't match. Men who ask questions vanish into unlogged cars bound for nowhere. Cross stays. As corruption tightens its grip on the rails and daylight proves just as dangerous as night, Cross forces a reckoning in a town built to make men disappear. But in Slate Ridge, justice comes at a price-and the platform always remembers who paid it. A KILLING ON THE PLATFORM is a hard-edged railroad Western of quiet courage, buried crimes, and the brutal truth that sometimes the only thing standing between order and murder is a man who refuses to look away.

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With a calm presence and a storyteller's eye, Tub McKinney writes Western fiction rooted in grit, resilience, and the quiet strength of ordinary people facing unforgiving worlds. His stories favor weathered towns over wide-open myth, and men and women shaped more by hard choices than easy heroics. McKinney's work is known for its grounded realism-measured prose, clean dialogue, and characters who carry their pasts as plainly as the dust on their boots. He draws inspiration from frontier history, pulp-era storytelling, and the enduring human struggle to stand firm when the ground won't. When he isn't writing, McKinney believes the best stories are still found in listening-to old places, overlooked lives, and the long silence between gunshots. He lives and works quietly, letting the stories speak for themselves.

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