Books by Bill J. Looney
When director Bradley Taylor arrives in Charleston to film a documentary on Edgar Allan Poe, murder is the last thing on his mind. As the Police Department investigates the discovery of a college literature professor's brutalized corpse, found dumped in the undergrowth of the Unitarian Church Cemetery, it becomes immediately apparent that the documentary and the murder are linked. Now, with a team of killers on the loose and the film's remaining literary experts missing. Detective Shelby James and his partner, Sophie Laroche, must race against the clock to prevent even more murder in the Holy City. In a detective story worthy of Poe, they soon realize that the famed literary genius may have left one last clue from beyond the grave.
Cracking the riddle may be the key to catching the killers, but will they solve the mystery in time?
When an undercover FBI agent in the Art Crime Unit goes missing in Charleston, South Carolina, the race is on to retrace her steps. Working with the Charleston Police Department, and the handsome Detective James, Agent Withers soon discovers a veritable chess board of players:
a set of reprehensible German aristocrats, a beautiful mob enforcer, a museum curator obsessed with buried treasure, and a sorcerer bent on revenge. What dark secrets did Agent Edwards discover amidst the historic streets of the Holy City? And what evils have been awakened? The hunt for The Storm is only beginning.
In the heart of the mountains, Detective Cooper Hamilton is drawn into a chilling mystery when a local artist is discovered frozen to death on his front porch, the first in a string of strange deaths. As Cooper begins to investigate, he assembles an unlikely team—his own erudite uncle, an enlightened professor, the local priest, and a cosmopolitan woman with a mysterious past. Together, they uncover sinister forces lurking in Keene Valley, where an ancient supernatural threat attempts to sow discord amongst the local residents. With every step closer to the truth, the team realizes they must contain the malevolent power... or risk becoming its next victims.
A suspense thriller
In forest near an apple orchard dies The thief, the murderer, the liar lies..... The coal fields of Kentucky have been invaded by a killer who leaves poems, religious symbols, and meticulously arranged death scenes as he seeks an ancient relic of the First Crusade. State Police Detective Cotton McDonald and mine owner Jennings Lockwood join forces to investigate and stop the carnage, aided along the way by priests, a witch, and messages from the dead. This thriller reveals its many surprises as the world decends on eastern Kentucky to find the Lost Star of Jerusalem.
In 1986 until 1989 a killer or killers stalked the lovers lanes of Southeast Virginia, primarily on a stretch of road known as the Colonial Parkway. The 23 mile stretch of road connects the historic towns of Jamestown and Yorktown and snakes through Virginia's colonial capital of Williamsburg. The murderer is believed to have killed eight young victims before disappearing. The FBI was never able to identify or catch the murders. The case became cold but remains open. The Colonial Parkway Murders as they have come to be known remain unsolved 30 years later.
An Anthology of Dragon Tales from the Harlan High School Class of 1970, Harlan Kentucky.