Crime Thriller
Date Published: April 8, 2026
Publisher: MindStir Media
from a dark chapter in its history. Two years ago, the community was shaken by
a kidnapping and a series of murders. Tom Stallings, the celebrated town hero,
solved the crimes and identified the evil demon responsible. In an effort to
revitalize the town, Tom’s son, Josh, has purchased the town’s orchard, naming
it The Stallings Orchard at Crick Road Bridge.
However, Tom is soon informed by the local sheriff that he and his family are
the targets of a threatening letter, mysteriously signed “The Avenger.” The
unknown author accuses Tom and Josh of being land-grabbers with blood on their
hands and vows to seek revenge.
Against this tense backdrop, three individuals-each driven by their own pain
and misguided sense of justice-embark on separate journeys of revenge. While
the first merely seeks to resolve personal grievances and jealousy through
minor acts of vandalism, the other two harbor far more sinister intentions,
representing both physical and metaphorical storms on a path of chaos and
destruction.
EXCERPT
Summer was in full swing, and the good people of Eden Valley spent lazy days basking in the warm sunshine and delighting in their clover-covered hillsides. Fathers toiled in the fields while mothers hung the family clothes outside to dry, and children ran to catch iridescent dragonflies that darted across the tall grasses. They lived a life completely detached and unaware that far away, time and events were beginning to form two impending and threatening storms. By day, the hot winds from the west and south would soon be blowing across the dry plains and over the forest-covered mountains, and by night, enshrouded in darkness, they would continue to become more and more forceful as they moved forward on a deadly path of death and destruction toward their intended destination and unsuspecting victims. These were storms that had been in the making for decades, and like all life-changing storms, they would be assigned individual names.
From Chapter 11 of Storms of Crick Road Bridge
About the Author
David Kerr grew up in the small, rural community of Enon Valley, Pennsylvania,
in the ’50s and ’60s where the main source of employment was farming or
working in the steel mill industry. Surrounded by families who struggled to
maintain their middle- class lifestyle and hold tightly to the American values
of God, family, and country, little did he realize that these people and
places would become the inspiration for his novels.
A graduate of Georgia Southern University, Kerr served as an English teacher
and school administrator for forty-four years. Following his retirement, he
wrote and published two mystery novels, Secrets of Crick Road Bridge and
Storms of Crick Road Bridge.
Today, he and his wife, Lois, live in Woodstock, Georgia, where they enjoy
being close to their daughter Paige, son-in-law, Chris, and grandsons, Banks
and Ford
