The Primitives

About the Book

In the small town of Bonnet’s Landing, Pennsylvania, the lives of seven people are about to change. For two couples, Michael and Helen Dempsey and Peter and Lenore Margand, the facades of their marriages will be torn away. A series of grisly murders sets the town on edge. As Reverend Noah Mathis and his wife, Esther, do their best to minister to the community, the small town’s lone detective, Savile Beauteau, after twenty years with Pittsburg PD, is soon overwhelmed at the number of bodies that begin to turn up. At the center of it all lies a forbidden and fragile love that tries to survive the storm building around it. All their lives converge to reveal treachery, deceit, death, and murder. Who survives and who doesn’t depends on your definition of survival.

About the Author

Ken Varnold is a retired police officer, investigator, actor, playwright and now, an author living in Minnesota. Previous novels include “The List of Things Bought, Volumes I and II”, “Somewhere Down the River”, “Urumqi”, and now, “The Primitives”. His 1996 stage play, “starke.florida; the final hours of Ted Bundy” debuted in the UK in 2017 to critical acclaim.