Recently-reunited childhood friends Charlie, Sam, and Malachi have come to a startling conclusion: whatever the Jabberwock is, it "wants to play" with them -- and it's imprisoned the whole county to make sure the trio won't abandon it.
Meanwhile, Viola Tackett has murdered the only law enforcement officer in the county, and she's staging a kangaroo court to solidify her authority as residents vanish, one by one.
Can Charlie, Sam, and Malachi survive Viola long enough to defeat The Jabberwock and return their town to the rest of the world?
★★★★★ "If you’ve been reading this amazing series, you probably knew it couldn’t get any more intense or complex. Well, The Hanging Judge reaches down your throat and grips your gut with an iron fist and doesn't let go, even when you reach "The End"." -- Kate Hickey
★★★★★ "Each book that I read in the Jabberwock series leaves me wanting more as every book ends. The suspense has my heart beating faster, the descriptive prose makes me feel as if I’m part of the story and the plight of each character infuses me with an unhealthy dose of angst. But I read on, yearning for more of the story as I wait for the next book." -- Lynn Geth
★★★★★ "This story. Stick a fork in me, 'cause I think I'm 'bout done. This tale isn't so much scary as...creepy. Haunting. The crawl-under-your-skin-and-lay-eggs-there menacing that just won't let loose. Yep. That kind of petrifying." -- Kentucky Bohemian
★★★★★ "The fourth book in Ninie Hammon's Nowhere USA series, hits the ground running, and doesn't slacken the pace until the last page, where it leaves you champing at the bit for the next installment." -- M. Durston
The Hanging Judge is the fourth book in Ninie Hammon's new series, Nowhere USA, a riveting psychological thriller about the residents of a forgotten county that inexplicably sinks through reality to find itself in the middle of Nowhere.
Fans of Justified, Under The Dome, and LOST will find themselves right at home in Nowhere USA.
Ninie Hammon (rhymes with shiny, not skinny) grew up in Muleshoe, Texas, got a BA in English and theatre from Texas Tech University and snagged a job as a newspaper reporter. She didn't know a thing about journalism, but her editor said if she could write he could teach her the rest of it and if she couldn't write the rest of it didn't matter. She hung in there for a 25-year career as a journalist. As soon as she figured out that making up the facts was a whole lot more fun than reporting them, she turned to fiction and never looked back.
Ninie now writes suspense--every flavor except pistachio: psychological suspense, inspirational suspense, suspense thrillers, paranormal suspense, suspense mysteries.
In every book she keeps this promise to her Loyal Reader: "I will tell you a story in a distinctive voice you'll always recognize, about people as ordinary as you are--people who have been slammed by something they didn’t sign on for, and now they must fight for their lives. Then smack in the middle of their everyday worlds, those people encounter the unexplainable--and it's always the game-changer."