Maggie Award Winning Mystery Novels by New York Times Bestselling Author Charlotte Hughes

Publisher's Weekly loved Valley of the Shadow

“Hughes’s snappy dialogue and strong writing aptly describe the small Southern town and its attitude towards a girl corrupted by the big city.”

--Publishers Weekly, about Valley of the Shadow.

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And After That the Dark, Charlotte's First Thriller

"Charlotte Hughes is the Real thing...One of those southern thrillers that never lets up..Exciting enough to even give terror a good name.-Pat Conroy about AND AFTER THAT THE DARK

"Like a lazy southern river, steady and pure.."- Gothic Journal

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Five Stars for Night Kills

"...escalating events of mounting suspense tied together by a difficult to detect common denominator. NIGHT KILLS is true suspense that scares the audience at every twist and turn."

Harriet Klausner, Romantic Times

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Purchase these mysteries beginning November, 2004.