Beasts of the Field - Table of Contents
A serial paranormal mystery novella
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While Beasts of the Field can be read as a standalone story, you may appreciate the characters and their interactions more if you are familiar with Judith’s first adventure, Down in the Holler, in which she investigates a cold case in rural Kentucky. Click here to read Down in the Holler.
Synopsis: When Judith Temple, full-time software developer and part-time psychic detective, agrees to help Sheriff Tim Morrissey find a missing college student, she is confident that her psychic vision will bring the case to a close. The only problem is that Judith’s vision seems to be…wrong. Contending with skeptical police, hostile locals, and her own complicated emotions about the county sheriff, Judith must make sense of her visions and conflicting information about the case to find the missing girl before the trail goes cold.
Episode I: The Woods - Following a psychic vision, Judith Temple directs Sheriff Tim Morrissey and the local police to search the secluded Kentucky mountains in hopes of finding a missing college student.
Episode II: The Search - Judith joins a search party to look for clues in the last place that Samantha Scott’s phone pinged. When she meets one of the girl’s childhood friends, she learns some unexpected facts about Samantha’s life in the lead-up to her disappearance.
Episode III: The Canvas - Judith and Tim team up to interview some locals in a nearby holler.
Episode IV: The Examiner - Judith chats with (i.e., interrogates) the county medical examiner.
Episode V: The Pinch - Suspicious of the medical examiner’s claims in the autopsy report, Judith asks some dangerous questions.
Episode VI: The Recovery - In the aftermath of a traumatic event, Judith struggles to remember something important.
Episode VII: The Investigation - Tim investigates Judith’s accident and searches for connections between it and Samantha Scott’s case.
Episode VIII: The Girlfriend - While recovering from her injuries, Judith questions one of Samantha Scott’s friends and unknowingly puts them both in danger.
Episode IX: The Puzzle - Reeling from a sudden violent death in McFerrin, Tim and Judith team up to put together the disparate pieces of the case.
Episode X: The Blade - After arriving home from investigating the latest mysterious death in McFerrin, Judith finds herself in mortal peril.
Episode XI: The Pieces - As Judith and Tim recover, they work to understand the disparate pieces of the case.
Episode XII: The Murderer - The murderer recalls the crime.
Episode XIII: The Confrontation - In the season finale, Judith and Tim rush to avert a deadly confrontation.
