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What is considered a crime in the jaded twenty-first century might pass for nothing in 1930 and this is apparently what happened when aspiring political candidate Earl Swanger ended up dead next to a bridge in rural Texas while on his way to a campaign event. Contemporary news stories revealed stab wounds explained away, meandering witness accounts, and a rush to judgment. Then the story simply disappears from the news. Modern eyes easily detect conspiracy and coverup, and the fact that witnesses were kept quiet and anonymous. Harmon Creek results in a story that is part In Cold Blood, part Red Harvest, and part Dateline episode. This tale is about much more than a single murder. It touches on racial injustice, and emphasizes the fact that people in power will go to great lengths to protect themselves. Yes, it is crime fiction, but it is likely much closer to the truth than the results at the time indicated. Candidate Swanger's family always thought it was murder, pure and simple, and after reading Harmon Creek, you very likely will too.

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"Thomas Fenske currently lives in North Carolina but he was born and raised in Texas, and his native Texan roots run deep.He's braved long stretches of endless Texas highways in search of the best chicken-fried steak, chili, Texas BBQ, and Tex-Mex food. He's hiked west Texas mountains, canoed rapids on the Guadalupe River, suffered through waves of mosquitoes in The Big Thicket, and rafted the Rio Grande. He's blistered in the heat of the long Texas summers, endured hurricanes, ice storms, hail, wind, and floods. He has even ridden across ranchland looking for a lost ""little doggie""...how many Texans can say they did that?Why did he leave the Lone Star State? Well, one must do many strange things to better provide for a family.He and his lovely wife of thirty-plus years currently share their home with a dog and nine cats. Somehow, he still manages to write amidst the chaos."

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