Harper's Bizarre

<p><span style=color: rgba(38 40 42 1)>Harper Alabama is one of those tiny college towns where nothing bad happens. The population blooms every fall with fresh young faces the students bright and eager to learn and settles back into a gentle hum each summer as the year-round residents are left to their gardening and barbeques. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(38 40 42 1)>Until one day that quiet breaks.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(38 40 42 1)>There is a senseless murder-and then more. And Police Chief Grady Noland is challenged to find what links a teenage friendship a family's poisoning a jailbreak and an abusive ex-spouse. Can he before someone else dies?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(38 40 42 1)>Author Mike Thorne himself a professor in a sleepy college town for years was inspired to write the crime novel </span><em style=color: rgba(38 40 42 1)>Harper's Bizarre</em><span style=color: rgba(38 40 42 1)> by two horrific murders in his hometown. In real life they happened decades apart but in his fiction Thorne weaves them together to explore new possibilities of plot. Fans of Thorne's previous crime novel </span><em style=color: rgba(38 40 42 1)>Murder in Memory</em><span style=color: rgba(38 40 42 1)> will recognize Harper and some of the town's inhabitants.</span></p>