The King Snake

By AR Simmons

The King Snake, the fifth Richard Carter novel by AR Simmons, is a contemporary crime mystery. A series of snipings in Hawthorn County pull Richard into The Ozark Foothills Drug Task Force.
A sniper is picking off low-level drug abusers. Is it a drug turf war? Maybe. Then the sniper begins targeting policemen. So is police corruption involved?
The FBI categorizes homicide by motive: criminal enterprise, criminal competition, contract murder and drug murder, all of which seem possible motives for the sniper (The King Snake).
When a friend is killed, it nearly plunges Richard into clinical depression. But there might be even worse to come. The King Snake could be drawing a bead on him.
Like all the stories, this one involves an obsession—but one of a different stripe.
Try The King Snake (a stand-alone novel) if you enjoy: Crime Mystery Series, Police Procedurals, or Detective Series with culturally immersive elements.