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Reckoning Up
Black Cat Hollow
Coming January 28, 2026
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In a split-second decision that will shatter his life, insurance salesman Jack Spinks stops to help a young woman walking alone down a back country road. After getting into his truck the mysterious young woman grabs the steering wheel and forces the truck off the road, sending it plunging over a cliff and into the woods. What begins as a simple act of kindness spirals into a nightmare as Jack finds himself trapped in a dark and perilous world, hunted by the woman’s cryptic pursuers. As he fights for survival, Jack’s journey uncovers a haunting connection to his own past—one that may hold the key to unraveling the mystery and escaping the deadly forces closing in on him. From the highly acclaimed author of A Single Shot, A Reckoning Up Black Cat Hollow is a pulse-pounding crime thriller that weaves together psychological suspense and a gripping mystery, where every step brings Jack closer to a truth he’s long buried—and forces him to confront who, or what, he can truly trust.
A Single Shot
After the loss of his family farm, John Moon is a desperate man. A master hunter, his ability to poach game in-season or out is the only thing that stands between him and the soup kitchen line. Until Moon trespasses on the wrong land, hears a rustle in the brush, and fires a single fateful shot.
Boot Tracks
Boot Tracks is a commanding tale of a man and a woman struggling against a destiny they cannot control, told in Matthew F. Jones’ characteristically taut, economic style. An assassination gone terribly wrong; a couple searching for one last chance to find a safe place in a hostile world.
Deepwater
A sexy, riveting psychological thriller about a young man with an unknowable past who lands in a small town, seduces a man’s wife and steals his beloved dog. Matt Jones has created a cast of wonderfully complex characters and enough twists and turns to keep you flipping the pages until the very last one.
Blind Pursuit
A vanished child, an unstable nanny, and a mysterious couple in a black sedan–these are the key elements of Matthew F. Jones’s fourth novel, Blind Pursuit. The story begins near Albany, New York, when Caroline and Edmund Follett’s 8-year-old daughter disappears on her way to the school bus. The only witness to the abduction is a 12-year-old boy who saw the child getting into a black sedan.
The Cooter Farm
Jones’s blackly humorous first novel, set on the Cooter family’s failing dairy farm in New York State, is firmly grounded in the gothic tradition. The Cooter Farm is a powerful drama of family dysfunction and child abuse, told from the perspective of Ollie, who asks nothing more than a normal family life. Ollie’s story is at once a poignant coming-of-age tale liberally laced with gothic overtones and a serious consideration of social issues with a hint of absurdity.
The Elements of Hitting
Walter Innis, son of a frustrated and violent fallen baseball star and a tragically unhappy woman driven to infidelity, carries his family’s legacy of torment into his own adult life – with disastrous results. Ultimately, it is as a Little League coach that Walter discovers a route to happiness and hope beyond the reach of the past.