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HARD KILLIN' FLOOR - A SOUTHERN GOTHIC NOIR NOVEL

Hard Killin' Floor, Romer Shaw, 1805 PUBLISHING, Southern Gothic, Southern Gothic Noir

AVAILABLE  DECEMBER, 2025!


The body of Elliot Glass is found face-down in the dirt behind a Clarksdale juke joint, one shoe missing and no one asking questions. The sheriff calls it just another dead Black man. Case closed.

But Elliot wasn’t nobody. He was somebody up in Memphis—somebody with ties, somebody with dirt, somebody white folks can’t afford to ignore.


As the Delta heat rises, so do the lies. A Black mortician, a white waitress, and a schoolteacher with secrets all find themselves tangled in a murder that wasn’t meant to matter—but won’t stay buried. There’s a deputy with blood on his hands, a politician scrambling to cover his tracks, and a woman who saw too much and lived to tell it.


In a land where the dead don’t get justice and the living don’t get clean, one truth echoes through the cotton and the blood:


The wrong man. The wrong woman. The wrong place to die.


ISBN: 979-8-9897952-2-2, 287 pages

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