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The Dark Below

Not all secrets stay buried. Not all deaths are what they seem.
​When Chase Loudermilk, a troubled veteran, is found dead, everyone assumes it’s suicide.
Everyone except his criminology professor, Teddy Drummond. A former cop haunted by painful memories, Teddy suspects Chase has been murdered, and that the answers lie hidden in his shadowy past.
Drawn reluctantly into the case, Teddy teams up with Detective Raina Bragg—a woman with every reason to hate her. As the two dig into the town’s buried secrets, what they uncover is more than a motive. It’s a chain reaction of choices, each darker than the last.
Then another body turns up.
​Now, in a place where everyone’s lives are tangled and few are truly innocent, Teddy and Raina find themselves in a race against time to stop a killer and expose the truth: that some consequences take years to surface—and the most dangerous secrets are the ones nobody sees coming…
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AU: Amazon
The Dark Below had me sitting there reading like I had fallen down a hole and kept sliding and could not find anything to grab on to, because this story stays twisting every which way.

-Reader Review
The Dark Below is a taut, atmospheric thriller that grips from its opening line: “Not all secrets stay buried. Not all deaths are what they seem.”
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-Reader Review
A dark read that took me on a wild ride and had me guessing till the last chapter.
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-Reader Review


​The Killing Plains

Two victims. Twenty years apart. One elusive killer.
Crescent Bluff, West Texas. Everybody knows everybody. And everybody has a secret.
When a boy is found dead with the skin of a hare’s head in his hand, everyone knows who killed him—Willis Newland, just released from prison after serving twenty years for an identical murder.
But what if everyone’s wrong?
Detective Colly Newland reluctantly agrees to investigate a case that seems to involve the whole town, including her dead husband’s extended family. But the deeper she digs, the more secrets she unearths. And as threats against her escalate, Colly realizes someone is willing to kill to keep theirs…
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An original suspense thriller of a murder mystery with unexpected plot twists. The Killing Plains is an inherently fascinating and compulsive page turner of a read from start to finish.

-Midwest Book Review
[A] gritty, atmospheric mystery...

-Lesa Holstine,
​The Library Journal Review
Sherry Rankin’s “The Killing Plains” is a gripping and atmospheric novel that plunges readers into the heart of a desolate landscape where secrets and danger lurk beneath the surface. [...] A masterclass in suspense and storytelling.

-Reader Review
WOW. What an amazing read.

-Reader Review
I was blown away by how good this was. The characters were great and well developed. I consider myself well read and am good at picking out the villain, but this book had me changing my mind about “who did it” every chapter.

-Reader Review