Blood and Silence: The Origins of Will Anderson (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798999876669)

In a world where silence can kill, one rookie learns that justice always demands blood.

Before the bodies. Before the headlines. Before The Demon of Oakhaven-
he was just a soldier with a badge and a lesson waiting to be learned.
This is where it all began.

Summit Falls wasn't a war zone, but it had its battles.
Every call was a test. Every silence hid something waiting to explode.
And when a woman turns up dead inside a roadside motel, staged like a sermon,
rookie officer Will Anderson learns his first truth:
the system doesn't always protect the right people.

Under the watch of a jaded field sergeant, Will steps into a world
where justice is negotiated, loyalty is fragile,
and doing the job means losing pieces of yourself.
It's the line between order and chaos-between who he is
and who he'll have to become to survive.

From W. Mark Harrington and Dead End Ink, Blood and Silence is the gritty, emotional origin story that forges the man readers first met in The Demon of Oakhaven.
A crime thriller grounded in realism and moral tension, it reveals the scars, choices, and silences that built the detective he would one day become.

For readers who crave dark police procedurals, southern noir, and psychological suspense with a human heartbeat-
you'll find it here, in the blood, and in the silence.