Books by Lucinda Johnson
Real in the Dark
Real in the Dark
Real in the Dark
- Evil can incubate anywhere. This riveting story traces the emergence of a serial killer from the midst of an ordinary American family. Women are vanishing from towns scattered over east Texas. The grisly torture and killings have the FBI scrambling to identify the killer or killers and unravel the mysteries. This is a thriller that goes beyond crime to the real darkness that lives in humans.
Real in the Dawn
Real in the Dark
Real in the Dark
- The sadistic serial killers Robert Woodson and Mark Tracer felt they were safe from the FBI after slipping into Mexico. But, their luxurious life of violence in Mexico goes horribly wrong. They encounter forces more vicious then they could have anticipated. With the FBI and the violent vigilante justice seekers in pursuit, can Woodson and Tracer escape?
Real in the Dead
Real in the Dark
Real in the Scare
- FBI agents Jackson Avery and Charlie Black follow a gruesome trail of dead bodies through the densely forested landscape of east Texas. Robert Woodson's minion, Jengo, is on a frenzied murderous mission of his own. The killings escalate daily. Both Woodson and the FBI are after him.
Real in the Scare
Real in the Scare
Real in the Scare
- The infamous Robert Woodson migrates from Texas to Utah to Colorado, and then to New Mexico in his well-funded, extravagant killing rampage. Finally, he may have met his match when he challenges the FBI and NM local law enforcement of northern New Mexico.
Once Feared
Real in the Scare
Once Feared
- FBI Special Agents Jackson Avery and Charlie Black find their Christmas vacation in northern New Mexico interrupted by matters of murder: a body found in a hot tub, professional jealousy, insanity and science. The agents encounter astonishing information regarding certain goings on at Los Alamos.
Once Mortal
Real in the Scare
Once Feared
- A human head is found discarded in a New Mexico State Park. A body is found in a hidden mountain dumpsite on federal land in New Mexico. NM OMI Deputy Emma Spruce and NM State Police Criminal Investigator Mike Pelis uncover strange phenomenon and even stranger people. FBI Agents Jackson Avery and Charlie Black join the investigation as it takes some extraordinary unexpected turns.
Once out of Range
Once out of Range
Once out of Range
- FBI Agents Jackson Avery and Charlie Black embark on the case of a missing Texas teacher. The investigation takes them to northern New Mexico where they uncover the horrific truth about an unsuspected killer. The art world cringes at the results. Serial killers come from all walks of life.
Once Before
Once out of Range
Once out of Range
- FBI Special Agents Jackson Avery and Charlie Black are again in northern New Mexico. A serial killer's dumpsite and an abandoned underground government facility throw gruesome and puzzling issues into the investigation.
Down and Dead
Once out of Range
Down then Gone
- The FBI is called to the Taos Ski Valley in the southern Rockies when someone shoots two skiers off a chairlift. The killer has more planned than anyone anticipates. One murder after another pushes the responders to their limits.
Down then Gone
Death in Secret
Down then Gone
- Bodies begin to surface from Gray Hills Lake in northern New Mexico. Law enforcement encounters the unusual inhabitants of the lake development in their effort to solve the mysteries of the bodies. The FBI is called in when it appears a serial killer might be at work.
Down and Found
Death in Secret
Death in Secret
- Living more than one life at a time isn't easy, even for a clever narcissistic serial killer. Northern New Mexico is again the site of some very sinister activities. Local law enforcement and the FBI team-up to solve the mysteries.
Death in Secret
Death in Secret
Death in Secret
- Sometimes the official historical records skip important tracks. NM State Police and the FBI encounter new information regarding the history of northern New Mexico as they follow a deliberately laid trail of human bones. Who left the bones for them to find? Why? What nefarious activities do they uncover in the secret recesses of the southern Rockies?
Death out of Focus
Death out of Focus
Death out of Focus
- Mystery, crime novel that takes FBI Special Agent Charlie Black, along with Agents Sam Wester and Carlos Sanchez back to northern New Mexico in response to bodies found neatly buried in a corn field outside of Taos. A proficient, practiced and out-of-the-ordinary killer is at work.
Death Disturbed
Death out of Focus
Death out of Focus
- A secret cemetery is discovered high in the mountains above Angel Fire, New Mexico. The FBI joins forces with the state police to investigate who is buried there, by whom, and why. The answers come quickly as the tangled mystery is unraveled.
15 Days Since
Death out of Focus
ITEM #16 Not on the Menu
- What's human life worth?
- Who is expendable?
- Who gets to decide?
ITEM #16 Not on the Menu
ITEM #16 Not on the Menu
ITEM #16 Not on the Menu
- Criminals in the Taos valley New Mexico were feeling secure and cozy. No one was likely to crack their well built covers. After all, who'd care what was going on in such a remote place? Until a shooting at a grocery store coffee shop garnered the attention of the FBI, the illegal activity was invisible. That all changed one rainy morning.
17 Miles to the Turn Off
ITEM #16 Not on the Menu
17 Miles to the Turn Off
- People can rationalize almost anything, even murder. Sometimes people can justify their insanity to themselves. Then, sometimes their irrational psychosis slips out of their private space. it can spin so far out of control that savagery takes over. They are then exposed. Such a scenario plays out in northern New Mexico. But it could happen anywhere, anytime.
Books by Kat Pruitt, Illustrated by Rebecca Griftner
Kat Pruitt, Author
- The ever-talented Kat Pruitt and her wonderful illustrator Rebecca Griftner have put together two wonderful and frisky adventure tales, chock full of memorable characters and lessons for us all.
Rebecca Griftner, Illustrator
- Rebecca Griftner lives in the Windy City. She loves pets of all shapes and sizes, baking treats, fuzzy blankets, coffee and making anything out of paper.