A Dark Shadow's Kill

by Bob Doerr

A Dark Shadow's Kill This book keeps Jim close to his home in Clovis, New Mexico. Jim’s peaceful morning is disrupted by Jessica Perez, a teenager, who arrives at his house unannounced, asking for his help in locating her missing mother. Jim reluctantly agrees to help, while hoping the police will ask him to stay out of their investigation. The police tell Jim their investigation has hit a dead end and suggest he take a rookie deputy out to the Jessica’s home to see if they can come up with any new ideas. While they are talking to the daughter at her home near Melrose, NM, the young deputy gets a call that sends Jim and the deputy to a remote location where a woman’s body has been found. The investigating takes a new turn and more murder victims start turning up. Information is slowly developed indicating one or more killers are looking for something and killing anyone in their way. Jim and the authorities soon realize that the killers will not leave any stone left unturned, and Jessica may be that last stone.

A Dark Shadow’s Kill is the eleventh book in the Jim West mystery/thriller series.

217 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 9, 2025

About the author

Bob spent nearly thirty years in the Air Force, all of it with the Office of Special Investigations. He then spent eight years as a financial planner before getting serious about his writing. Selected in 2013 by the Military Writers Society of America as its Author of the Year, Bob has fifteen books published. His fifth book in his Jim West mystery series was a winner in the 2013 Eric Hoffer Book Awards. His book Another Colorado Kill took silver for fiction in the Stars and Flags Book Awards for 2012. The third book, Loose Ends Kill, was selected as a Finalist for the 2011 Eric Hoffer Award and then was awarded the Silver medal for Fiction/mystery at the Military Writers Society of America's 2011 conference. Cold Winter's Kill was a Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award in 2010.