Red Farlow Mysteries, Book 5
Mystery
Date Published: 09-14-2021
Publisher: Tirgearr Publishing
Town’s secrets cloak ruthless killer for decades
Excerpt:
Five days before, Cleet tried hitching a ride after walking three miles down the road from the state mental hospital.
Nobody slowed for him. Nobody stopped.
In fact, most drivers sped up to get past the newly released
inmate. Not that they knew he was one. They didn’t. They just assumed anyone
thumbing a ride so near the Milledgeville state mental hospital might not be a
suitable driving companion.
Cleet knew this. He’d escaped three times, and no drivers
stopped for him on those occasions either. Except this day was different as he
had a legal release. Still, no one even braked, let alone give him a ride to
south Georgia and a visit he needed to pay before heading on down the road.
The memories haunted Cleet. Arrested for killing a woman…the
lunacy board…the mental hospital. All the time, he kept mum.
After all those years, a superior court judge ruled in
Cleet’s favor and set him free. Seems another man bragged to a Georgia prison
cellmate he’d killed young women in South Georgia around the same time Cleet
was accused.
Cleet knew the man had lied, at least where Mitsy’s killing
was concerned. He didn’t know why Mitsy died, but if he had stabbed her to
death—which he didn’t—it was because she wouldn’t pay him for the Bible. Not
that the debt in itself was a reason to kill anyone. Cleet told his Aunt
Gladys, who visited just after the hospital admitted him. Years later, Gladys
hired a lawyer. Eventually, Cleet got cut loose.
Now, he was a free man.
Cleet’s release befuddled him more than anyone else.
Still, he said nothing. To nobody. No way.
About the Author
W.F. Ranew writes the Red Farlow Mysteries series from Tirgearr Publishing, the latest of which is book five, Cracker Town.
Ranew is a former newspaper reporter, editor, and communication executive. He started his journalism career covering sports, police, and city council meetings at his hometown newspaper, The Quitman Free Press. He also worked as a reporter and editor for several regional dailies: The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The Florida Times-Union, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
He lives with his wife in Atlanta and St. Simons Island, Ga.
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