November 1, 2026

The Traveler and The Chicken Man

Author: Edward Rand
Amazon Rating: 4.2
Genre: Thriller and Suspense
Price: $4.99   FREE (Price may have changed. Last verified on 11/1)

Death. Chaos. Feathers.

It’s the beginning of the long Fourth of July holiday week, and Indian Head is crawling with tourists from Nebraska.

That’s good, because ex-con Jack Ross is counting on those Cornhusker dollars to keep his roadside burger-and-shake joint, Crazy’s, going. And then the screaming and the dying start, and a demented killer is caught on grainy cell-phone video fleeing the latest slaughter; he’s carrying a bloody ax.

He’s also wearing a giant, gore-spattered rooster costume.

Indian Head is immediately swamped by reporters from across the globe. The FBI also arrives to “assist” overwhelmed local and state authorities. All that doesn’t matter much to Jack, though, because he’s busy watching the tourists flee the mountains, taking their dollars and his dream of keeping Crazy’s open for another season with them…and then Jack realizes he’s got bigger problems. Evidence left at the murder scenes points straight to him as the costumed killer.

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