Banjo Strings Novel Excerpt Horror Book Review

A pair of plantation slave ghosts are carrying out a mission of vengeance against the first-born sons of two old and prominent plantation families in Wainwright County, Mississippi. This tightly kept secret is exposed in a letter to “The File Room,” a new cable and internet show that investigates and confirms supernatural phenomena. The program is sponsored by the recently exposed organization ‘The Campus,’ that has monitored and policed the supernatural world for over a century.

The show’s producer, a descendant of the agency’s founder, discovers evidence pointing to a renegade band within the agency, helping keep the families’ dark secret. He is forced to “recruit” an old friend, a disgraced former TV reporter, sending him undercover on a “simple reconnaissance mission” to the post-Katrina landscape of Wainwright County. Dodging the local sherrif and the families was one thing, dealing with the unpredictable and deadly ghost Polly was another…

Excerpt includes chapters 1 - 5