Supernatural Horror ♦ Seasonal Nightmares ♦ Stories Rooted in the Real
A. B. Richards is a supernatural horror author who lives in the shadow of a forest in Houston, Texas, with her husband and assorted rescue pets.
She has a passion for the paranormal, true crime, and unsolved mysteries, and her stories are inspired by real-life events, legends, and folklore.
She is the author of Rescue: A Litter of Quetzels, a collection of short stories following the investigations of Detective Quetzel Cazarres, and Icebox, a novel based on the infamous Icebox Murders that took place in Houston in 1965.
Every October and December, she brings seasonal terror to life in the Halloween Bites and Creepy Christmas anthologies from Black Mare Books.
Weak as a kitten.
That’s what the old-timers say, anyway. Houston Homicide Detective Quetzel Cazares believes that, too. So when she finds a scrawny little cat abandoned at a gruesome crime scene, she takes pity on him and adopts him.
That decision just may save her life.
Five stories. Five murders. One tiny, fluffy connection.
LARGE PRINT EDITION
Weak as a kitten.
That’s what the old-timers say, anyway. Houston Homicide Detective Quetzel Cazares believes that, too. So when she finds a scrawny little cat abandoned at a gruesome crime scene, she takes pity on him and adopts him.
That decision just may save her life.
Five stories. Five murders. One tiny, fluffy connection.
An unsolved murder.
A long-vanished suspect.
A city in the grip of a brutal serial killer.
Homicide detective Quetzel Cazares is called out to investigate skeletal remains found in the roots of a lightning-blasted tree at the moldering Houston Astrodome. Could this be the key to solving the infamous Icebox Murders from 1965? Her notorious cold case gets pushed to the back burner when a particularly depraved killer starts leaving dismembered bodies scattered around Southeast Houston.
Charles Rogers was a bright kid from a hardscrabble background. As a young Navy pilot in World War II, his small act of courage is rewarded by an extraordinary gift. But the gift curdles into a curse. Desperate to find a cure, he stumbles onto the trail of a sinister criminal ringleader whose penchant for monstrous violence haunts Charles’ darkest nightmares.
Two killers, separated by decades, connected by evil.
One determined detective.
Someone’s got to lose.
LARGE PRINT EDITION
An unsolved murder.
A long-vanished suspect.
A city in the grip of a brutal serial killer.
Homicide detective Quetzel Cazares is called out to investigate skeletal remains found in the roots of a lightning-blasted tree at the moldering Houston Astrodome. Could this be the key to solving the infamous Icebox Murders from 1965? Her notorious cold case gets pushed to the back burner when a particularly depraved killer starts leaving dismembered bodies scattered around Southeast Houston.
Charles Rogers was a bright kid from a hardscrabble background. As a young Navy pilot in World War II, his small act of courage is rewarded by an extraordinary gift. But the gift curdles into a curse. Desperate to find a cure, he stumbles onto the trail of a sinister criminal ringleader whose penchant for monstrous violence haunts Charles’ darkest nightmares.
Two killers, separated by decades, connected by evil.
One determined detective.
Someone’s got to lose.
