Linda Hall

I was only fourteen when I witnessed a murder on the riverbank. A murder that went unpunished. Unless you count what happened to my family. We were forced out of town by the teenage killer's prominent parents. And the murder was forgotten-;by everyone but me. Now, the killer is a respected businessman. I can't let him get away with it. But I'm a single mother with a child to protect, what can I do? The new man in my life, Mark Bishop, warns me to...

A young woman's new life of love and faith is threatened by a dangerous stalker from her past in this inspiring novel of romantic suspense. Lilly Johnson wasn't always the law-abiding, churchgoing woman she is today. Not even her boyfriend, youth minister Greg Whitten, knows the truth about her former life. With engagement on the horizon, Lilly fears what would happen if Greg ever found out her secrets. And now her worst nightmare is coming true. Someone...

"Twenty years ago, two weeks before their intended wedding day, tragedy tore Megan Brooks and Alec Black apart. They haven't seen each other since. Someone has been watching them, though, and attacking the members of the would-be bridal party. Megan knows she must confront her past by coming home and facing Alec, now the sheriff of Whisper Lake, Maine. He's the last man she wants to see, yet he's the only one who can keep her safe when the killer...

When an explosion at City Hall kills two people, all the evidence of wrongdoing points to shy make-up artist Anna Barker. Hardly the type of person you'd think of as a killer, Anna hopes with all her heart that Sheriff Stu McCabe, the lead detective, will be able to clear her. But Stu has a tormented past of his own, and he isn't inclined to trust anyone--not eve sweet, lovable Anna. He'd learned the hard way that people are not always what they...

How does fear — deep, ongoing, systemic fear — impact on Black lives? Through reflections on her own life, anthropologist Dr. Linda Jean Hall Ph.D. draws on traditions of African storytelling to explore the question of how systemic fear affects the twentieth- and twenty-first-century Afro American experience. By using the framing of pandemic waves — a concept all too familiar in the wake of COVID-19 — Hall employs a personal lens to parse...