Keith McCabe

Victims and Hunters Keith McCabe

In this historical fiction by Keith McCabe, deadly and powerful women converge in this epic murder mystery. Maryelaina Lemberg, a pioneering female detective from Boston, leads an investigation into a brutal series of murders in 1914. For years dismembered remains have appeared throughout New England on a dangerous stretch of road known as Hemlock Highway, a road notorious for harboring gangs and bandits. When a woman is arrested as a suspect in her husband's murder, Maryelaina travels to Williamstown to visit with her in jail, but is doubtful of the woman's guilt. When Williamstown police force Mary to leave the city, Mary vows to prove the woman's innocence by continuing her quest to locate the killer. Mary joins forces with a Pinkerton detective who is in search of a missing man that has disappeared somewhere inside Massachusetts. Together they work with police as more bodies appear inside the burgeoning city of Ardmore, a town plagued by a gang war. As these gangs compete for dominance over the fair city, Mary begins to uncover a dark conspiracy that has operated in secret for decades. This leads Mary down a bloody trail in her quest for answers. The deeper she delves into this mystery, the more Mary puts herself at risk at the hands of a cruel and savage monster operating quietly from the shadows. Mary ventures into the Massachusetts forests in pursuit of the killer that is at the heart of this bloody crusade, and it is only there where she can find understanding - but only at a terrible cost.