Debut Novel Out March 2023


black echoes by
j.b. mcLaurin

Thirty years ago, Everett Grant took his infant son Hank and fled rural Alabama to forge a better life, leaving behind a long trail of drug abuse and crime.

All is well with their new lives in West Palm until Hank gets badly injured in a car accident. To deal with the pain, he abuses opiates, sliding into full-blown addiction.  Hank starts robbing dope houses to feed his habit, putting him in the cross-hairs of a sadistic enforcer.

The enforcer’s methods are the stuff of lore. Rumors about his appearance ring of myth: he has night-black eyes under tangles of scars on his head. He takes people out to the Everglades, maims them, remakes them into taxidermied trophies.

The common thread: once he takes you out there, no one sees you again.

Pulled back into the underworld, Everett is on a collision course with this deranged man. Worse, his past is there waiting for him.

About J.B. Mclaurin

A former public defender, J.B. lives in Huntsville, AL with his wife, two kids, and two dogs. When not working as an attorney, he runs, listens to records, reads crime fiction, horror, and thrillers, and plays drums in local alt-metal band Impossible Machine. He continues to write and plans to publish several more crime fiction and horror novels in the coming years.