The Mountain Mystic aka He's scared of germs, comedy ensues

We're joined by attorney and author Russell W. Johnson to his Mountaineer Mystery series to discuss some of our favorite topics - dark fiction in dark times, dealing with rejection, and whether Jessica Lange was secretly the real killer all along.

We also get a sneak peek at the second book in the series, The Mountain Mystic, and discuss character morality, conspiracy theories, and Ron Earl Phillips covers.

Russell W. Johnson is an attorney who got so sick of billable hours he started writing crime fiction. His first story was published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and won the Edgar Awards’ Robert L. Fish prize in 2015. Since then, he’s had stories published in a number of outlets, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and won the West Virginia Writers’ Pearl S. Buck Award for Writing for Social Change. His Debut Novel, The Moonshine Messiah, won the West Virginia Writers’ First Place prize for Book Length Fiction.

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