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SPIDER BLUE
by Carla Damron
2005 Original Title from Bella Rosa Books

Carla Damron, a licensed clinical social worker, taps into her keen insight into human behavior in the Caleb Knowles series. Keeping Silent, the first Caleb Knowles mystery, received impressive reviews from print and on-line media. Spider Blue is the second in the series featuring social worker Caleb Knowles and his brother Sam, a deaf artist. Like Keeping Silent, Spider Blue is set in the midlands of Damron's native South Carolina.

SPIDER BLUE
A Caleb Knowles Mystery
Social Worker Caleb Knowles' quiet southern life is disrupted by two horrendous crimes: Frances Callahan, a young nurse and mother of two, is found stabbed to death in front of her suburban home. Across town, a worker in a mill draws a gun and opens fire on his fellow employees. Caleb has a personal and professional connection to the murders: a good friend, Maggie Wells, lives across from the murdered woman and now fears for her own safety. And, after a bizarre suicide attempt, the gun-wielding mill worker becomes Caleb's client.
With the help of his brother Sam, a deaf artist, Caleb uncovers the strange link between the two crimes in the form of another client: a disturbed teen age boy, the millworker's son. But Caleb's investigation into these events draws him into a dark, confusing world of drive-by shootings, gangs, and street drugs. And Caleb's efforts to protect his friend might just prove deadly--for Sam and for Caleb.

"A personable character... readers will follow him breathlessly to the novel's well-reasoned conclusion."
—THE STATE, Columbia SC

"…Carla Damron is an author who writes with wisdom, heart and deft hand at building suspense but mostly she writes about characters any one of us could become."
—Pamela James, THE WRITERS ROOM MAGAZINE

"Ms. Damron's adaptation of the deaf is poignant and exact and the deaf communications are consistent throughout. Keeping Silent is one of the better examples of true deaf characterization."
—DEAF CHARACTERS, BEHIND THE FICTION

"Spider Blue is an intricate mystery and an emotional read. Emma will steal your heart."
—Brenda Weeaks, Myshelf.com review

photo by Jim Hussey

About the Author:

Carla Damron is a social worker, advocate and author whose novel, The Orchid Tattoo, won the 2023 NIEA Award in suspense, the Winter Pencraft Award for Literary Excellence, the Literary Titan Gold Award, and the Firebird Award for best suspense. Her work The Stone Necklace won the 2017 WFWA Star Award and was the One Community Read for Columbia, South Carolina.

Damron is also the author of the Caleb Knowles mystery series, each of which deals with social issues. This fourth installment, Justice Be Done, explores the brutal Impact of unresolved racial tensions on a southern community. Damron holds an MSW and an MFA and lives in South Carolina with her husband and large family of poorly behaved shelter animals.

www.carladamron.com

JUSTICE BE DONE
KEEPING SILENT
DEATH IN ZOOVILLE
SPIDER BLUE

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