Meet legendary storyteller Wally Avett, author of Murder in Caney Fork!

Meet legendary storyteller Wally Avett, author of Murder in Caney Fork!

It's time for the “First Friday” event in downtown Murphy NC, sponsored by the Cherokee County Arts Council.  Wally Avett will be doing a book signing for Murder in Caney Fork on Valley River Avenue, just off the town square. Meet this legendary storyteller and get an autographed copy of his new book.

This event spotlights demonstrating artists (weaving, pottery making, ceramics, cane chair and other homemade furniture, jewelry, etc.), live music, wine tastings, refreshments and fine dining.  It's done the first Friday evening (5-8 pm) of every month, April thru October, when the area’s summer people are in residence.

Murder in Caney Fork

Wesley Ross, a decorated World War II Marine of Carlson's Raiders, returns to his home in Eastern North Carolina to find all has changed, and much that has not. No longer fighting the Japs, he leans on “the pen is mightier than the sword” and begins working in his uncle’s law firm.

Then a bully storekeeper, who has terrorized his hometown for years, rapes another returning veteran’s wife and runs him down in cold blood. Bible Belt vigilante justice — an eye for an eye, life for a life — intervenes.  Old instincts are hard to suppress as Ross sees only one way to protect his family and all those in his community.

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Also put on your calendars the release date for his next novel, Last Bigfoot in Dixie (September 2014, published by BelleBooks www.bellebooks.com )

The Last Bigfoot in Dixie

            Deep in the Great Smokies, a huge black bear kills a child in a campground and the hunt begins in Mayberry-in-the-Mountains.

            Wade, an outdoorsman and backwoods columnist, is quickly deputized to find and slay the massive beast terrorizing tourists and locals alike.

            Along the trail, he is attacked by the beast, wounded by a pot-grower's booby trap and stalked by Junior, an authentic Appalachian psychopath.  Two deputies are gunned down and rumors of buried Yankee gold surface.

            There is a literate Cherokee giant, a wannabe writer whose gifts prove helpful, even after mushroom trances and spiritual quests enhanced by a Minnesota Vikings horn-helmet and his nickname is Bigfoot…

Wally Avett is represented by Loiacono Literary Agecy www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com