“Russell Johnson has packed more twists and turns into THE MOUNTAIN MYSTIC than you’ll find in the West Virginia backroads his characters roam. The mystery that plays out keeps you turning pages at top speed. It’s one hell of a thrilling ride.”
“Russell Johnson has packed more twists and turns into THE MOUNTAIN MYSTIC than you’ll find in the West Virginia backroads his characters roam. The mystery that plays out keeps you turning pages at top speed. It’s one hell of a thrilling ride.”
The Mountain Mystic, is the sequel to Russell’s debut novel, The Moonshine Messiah, with the third book in the treillage forthcoming.
Some of the awards I’ve been honored to receive.
Russell’s first short story, Chung Ling Soo’s Greatest Trick, was published in Ellery Queen and won the Edgar Award’s Robert L. Fish prize.
“True Crime” a fictional retrospective on an honor killing in the West Virginia Coal FIelds, won the Pearl S. Buck Award for Writing for Social Change.
Russell’s first novel, The Moonshine Messiah, won first prize for book length fiction at the West Virginia Writers Annual Writing Competition
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Craig Johnson
author of the Walt Longmire series