by Dennis M Clausen

In the fall of 1926, itinerant laborer Judd McCarthy disappears while traveling between two small towns in the Midwest. Thirty-three years later, lawyer Joel Hampton thinks he is going insane. As Joel’s symptoms become more severe, psychiatrist Ned Finley is convinced his patient is being possessed by the spirit of a violent man who once lived in a nearby county and loved a woman named ‘Katharine.’ When Finley visits the county, he feels his own life threatened by some menacing presence.

“This expertly written thriller, a kind of Stephen King-Ross MacDonald hybrid (and in a class with either) beautifully evokes the feeling of a small town dying—its buildings, its streets and, most of all, its lost souls.”

Publisher's Weekly

“The Search for Judd McCarthy . . . will stay with readers long after they read the last page and close the book . . . This is one of those books that should get plenty of word of mouth publicity once it finds itself into enough hands”

Writer’s Digest

“haunting. . . .” 

San Diego Union-Tribune