Daryl Anderson Mystery

Welcome to Daryl Anderson Mystery.  If you love mystery and the supernatural, you've come to the right place. Here you'll find information about all of my books. Join me in a tour through the winding labyrinth of dark fiction.

Black Springs, 1972 Black Springs lies in the dark heart of the Shenandoah. Now something is stirring in the darkness. Something evil. Read more. Book 2 of the Murderer's Apprentice Download today! Kindle Instant Preview

 Baltimore, 1966 12-year-old Dara Burke is about to discover that some monsters are real.  Read more . . . Book 1 of The Murderer's Apprentice Mysteries Download now! Kindle Instant Preview

When a retirement community’s most despised resident is found dead in his tricked-out golf cart, former homicide detective Addie Gorsky springs into action! Read more . . . Book 1, an Addie Gorsky Mystery Kindle Instant Preview Download today!

 In this swamp of murder and deceit, no one is safe! Read more . . . Book 2, an Addie Gorsky Mystery Kindle Instant Review Download today!

 Beware the Tender Mercies of the Wicked! Read more . . .  Book 3, an Addie Gorsky Mystery Kindle Instant Preview Download today!

Grip was Charles Dickens’ beloved pet raven: Grip the Clever, Grip the Knowing, Grip the Wicked.  This mischievous bird with an impressive vocabulary was the great writer’s boon companion. Sadly, one night in 1841, Grip died after a brief and violent illness, probably caused the bird’s propensity to eat paint. (At that time, paints were especially toxic, with some containing high levels of arsenic–a fact that comes into play in my supernatural mystery The Murderer’s Apprentice.) Dickens’ account of the raven’s final hours is heartrending. In a letter to a friend, he related how Grip spent his last moments repeating his favorite phrase: Hello, old girl. When Grip croaked his last, Dickens was grief-stricken. Remembering is an integral part of grieving. Upon Grip’s death, Dickens was so distraught he had the raven stuffed and mounted. But he also bequeathed another kind of immortality upon his friend–a literary one—when Dickens wrote the talking raven Grip into his novel Barnaby Rudge. A