Historical Thriller - TWISTED CROSS

My next novel is on the way.  Here is a taste.

Alone, Jonathan Thomas buries his family along the Oregon Trail.  In Twisted Cross Jonathan encounters hopeful emigrants and abused Indians facing a plague of cholera.  The hardships of life on the frontier are intensified by encounters with scurrilous opportunists and profiteers with murderous intent. Victimized and stalked, Jonathan struggles to survive. Potawatomi Indians who own the trading posts, ferries, and sawmills at Uniontown give him work, and Clara, a French half-breed girl living in both worlds, gives him reason to return.  He earns a living with the Army on the Oregon Trail and with missionaries building Indian missions on the Santa Fe Trail all the while haunted and hunted by those who would kill him.

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Novel by Tom Ellis - political murder thriller

Candidate to Kill

This political thriller full of twists and turns tells what happens when a district attorney with a dubious past succeeds a congressman who has suddenly died.

A Midwestern Congressman is killed in a car accident four months before his re-election. A stunned state party hierarchy scrambles to identify a likely candidate who can become a four month incumbent. The prestige of the state's most powerful senator, who is planning a future run for the Presidency, requires that they salvage the campaign and retain the congressional seat. Joe Murphy, a young ambitious county prosecutor, is appointed to fill the unexpired term after a hurried investigation into his background reveals nothing. Hidden in Joe Murphy's past is a dark episode from his college days, which twenty-five years later he has pushed into the hidden dark attic corners of his life. Joe Murphy's campaign is headed for victory when people and events from past threaten to ruin everything. Powerful forces of evil take over. The campaign ends with a thrilling surprise that evolves from a primeval soup of excitement, love, anguish, greed, justice, corruption and power.

Tom Ellis is a new author but an old political junkie. Candidate to Kill is his first novel which looks at the dark side of power and corruption to craft a thrilling story, richly described, with plenty of twists and turns.

Order at:  www.candidatetokill.com