The Killing Grounds

"This bite-size tale packs an outsize punch." —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) When the Southern Tier Strangler, a serial killer taking victims across the Rust Belt, winds up dead on Bina Morton's autoliner, she finds herself caught in a murder mystery in reverse: This murderer is an estranged man from her rural New York hometown and the mother that abandoned her might have been one of his early victims. The events that follow force Bina to confront buried memories of home, the woman her mother truly was, and everything Bina herself left behind. Part of the 2023 Neon Hemlock Novella Series   Joan Tierney is a writer and flight attendant based out of Philadelphia. Her works can be found in a variety of magazines and airports, and her science fiction collection Letters From the End of the World can be found on Lulu. Her novella The Killing Grounds is part of Neon Hemlock's 2023 Novella Series.   "The discovery and death of a serial killer brings the unspoken dramas of an outside-of-th