Baer Creighton Series #1-3

by Clayton Lindemuth

Three complete Baer Creighton novels:

My Brother's Destroyer
Baer Creighton is a gifted distiller of fruited moonshine, cursed with the ability to detect even the subtlest deception. He lives in the woods next to his house and philosophizes with his dog Fred... until a local dog fighting tycoon steals Fred for bait.

Armed with audacity, grit, and a moonshiner's know-how, Baer vows to hunt down every man present at the fight ring and give him the cruelest death he can muster. But he tips his hand and begins a war of attrition against a cabal steeped in blood sport and thirsty for violence. Men who know how to find a man's soul, and make it grieve.

Baer's moxie will lead him to revenge, redemption, or both.


The Mundane Work of Vengeance
Six days before Baer Creighton cut down a cabal of dogfighters, a sixteen-year-old girl disappeared while walking home from school in Asheville, North Carolina. Witnesses later claimed they saw her in the back of a police car.

Twenty-five years before that, an illegal fireworks plant blew up in Benton Tennessee, killing eleven, and raining M100 firecrackers over half a county. A few days later, a thirteen-year-old boy learned his highest calling was murder.

The Mundane Work of Vengeance begins where My Brother’s Destroyer ends: Baer Creighton taking buckets of gold to Mae, dreaming of driving west.

But Baer has no idea the treachery, blood, and misery in store. At his lowest with no one to trust, he’ll have to decide whether to save a family who betrays him—or a kidnapped girl buried in a basement, a half state away.

If he can save anyone at all.

My Brother's Destroyer is the new rural noir classic of loyalty and vengeance.


Pretty Like an Ugly Girl
Luke Graves turned the family butcher business into an empire by cutting fat off the ledger as well as he cut meat off the bone.

He also learned many men sold beef, but few sold girls and boys. Demand was high—especially for the ones with brown skin—and supply, small.

Ten years later the family business included three sons and a distribution chain that delivered kids for any purpose throughout the western United States.

One evening, returning to Williams, Arizona from a pickup in Sierra Vista, the tire blows out. A chavo bolts the truck and runs for the plain. Cephus Graves takes him down with a deer rifle, then fires at a stray pit bull that catches his eye.

In the woods two hundred yards away, Baer Creighton looks up from his fire. He has a nose for evil men and he’s found a clan of them. But he’s met his match in Luke Graves.

Baer bleeds in Pretty Like an Ugly Girl.

Everyone bleeds.

Literary depth. Thriller pace. Get your fists up. This series leaves a mark!


Prepare yourself for a battle of good and evil unlike any you've seen. If you haven't read Clayton Lindemuth's unique brand of literary noir, what are you waiting for?

1109 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 13, 2018

About the author

Am I right? You're smarter than most, embrace old fashioned morals, love your country, dogs, and guns... and dig ruthless fiction...

Hi! I'm Clayton Lindemuth, and my novels embrace rural noir truth. Mind your own business, be slow to anger. But don't ever back down to evil. Justice happens when the wicked die.

If we're tracking so far, I wrote My Brother's Destroyer, and all the rest, just for you.

You'll stay awake too late, underline fun new ways to cuss, muse about new philosophies and read random passages to strangers to make the world a better place.

Literary depth. Thriller pace. If you've got the stomach to watch evil men die, dress for the woods and grab a lamp. We've work to do.

Reviews

[Wilma hutto]

I got the first book in the series for free from bookbub or the fussy librarian. The writing style was different, off putting from what I normally read. But I was intrigued. I continued reading. A love story. Good vs evil. The book's written from Baer's point of view. By the time I finished the first book, I was hooked. I bought all the books in the series. I love the series. It's awesome. I'm now reading "Sometimes Bone" by Clayton Lindemuth. I'll definitely be reading and buying more of his books

[Linda Hine]

Wow I really don’t know where to start.
Saw an add for this 3 book set,and read the reviews.
Not my usual type of reading,but I was intrigued.
Good vs Evil, Right vs Wrong these stories provide both sides of an issue and have you thinking if your opinions before and after reading these stories are
still the same . Well developed story line and characters you can relate to.
Prefect name for the main character as by the end, you want to just hug him like the big 🧸 Baer he is. Off to see what else I can read from Clayton.

[A.D. Hopkins]

Baer Creighton is a hillbilly version of Jack Reacher. The situations that require him to kill people repeatedly are far-fetched, but the character himself is very believable and rather funny. I can't resist these books.

[Kristina Trawick]

Awesome series

I almost gave up shortly into book one. The narration by Baer was a bit much. Once I got into the cadence of his speech patterns, I couldn't stop reading. These four books go where few authors will venture, into the darkest evils man will commit, to the lightness of pure love for fellow man and favored pets. Baer is a fellow caught up in the depravity of some local men when his dog is taken, forced into a dogfight then returned home torn and blinded. This starts off a series of events that lead Baer across the U.S. from North Carolina to Arizona. These stories are an exceptional read, told from Baer's perspective and alternating with a narrator. Hop on for the ride of a lifetime.

[Patricia Sirios]

WOW A ok once in a long, long time!

These books were excellent! Exciting and interesting and held my attention maybe too much so. Started out pretty slow but when it got good, it got good fast and was riveting the rest of the way. About a broken hearted old mountain man that has a softness for dogs. Especially his! Beware if you take a disliking to one of "ole Baer's" critters! Your life span just got shorter! Haven't enjoyed myself reading a book or set of books more in years! Thanks Mr Lundermuth. It was a great ride! Looking forward to the next Baer Creighton books! Hope it's soon!

[Vic Falconer]

Gritty and realistic

Baer Creighton is completely off the grid. He takes crap from no one and when he or his dog are harmed, he hits back ... Hard! Follow Baer as he sets out to avenge his dog, take down bad men wherever he encounters them, help out his niece Mae and her kids and be chased across several states while bringing justice upon those who deserve it. Baer Creighton is a very real and interesting character and Clayton Libdemuth weaves his stories around Baer like an artist. Great writing and story line. Well worth a look!

[Roxie Klinksiek]

A small town with a group of corrupt men who control most of the county is the setting for this story about one man's vengeance for the killing of his dog. Baer makes likker, the best. He resists being controlled by the leader of the "bad guys". Their battle of wills comes to a head when Baer's dog is used as a bait dog in a dog fighting ring. The story is fast paced and it moves smoothly from the present to the past as Baer's story is told. The prose is both gritty and lyrical. If you like unique characters and a country setting you may want to read this story.

[Monroe Bryant]

Baer is a bear.

Couldn’t put this four book series down. Those that need killin, got killed. Sometimes life is cruel and sometimes it’s true. Either way, I really enjoyed these books. Refreshing that no one, even though you don’t expect it, is spared if they are bad and Baer sees it “Red”. And your last thought, being a Mason, I know that light is good.

[Liz Burke]

Great stories about what happens when you push a man too far

This is the story of a man who lives in the woods and makes moonshine minding his own business not bothering anyone until someone steals his dog.And that's how it all begins.This is a great set of stories and I look forward to reading more from this author.

[Patricia Taylor]

Loved this series

I was so glad I bought this whole series at one time I was sad to read the last page because I wanted more. Back woods people have their own code or honor. Some quiet different from our present day

[Stephen Mitchell]

Kept reading to the end

I read the first four books in the Baer Creighton series from the beginning to the end. I could not put them down. A bit more violence than I typically read, but Baer somehow makes it feel justified. Great read.

[Michael V]

Barr Creighton Series

These books are well worth the read. Barr is an interesting character with a simple no nonsense moral compass . The books move along at a good pace always keeping your interest.

[Al_owl]

Mountain Men are good even when they are bad

He just wants to be left alone so he can make the best moonshine in the mountains near Ashville, but some bad men make the mistake of killing his best friend Fred, his dog.

[john smith]

Another great outing into an all too real world.

Great read. A real page Turner. Grounded real characters, starts and all and a catchy story to boot. If you haven't tried the Baer right on series then your missing something.

[Debbie]

these were very different for me. Took a while to get my head around the language but once that was done then I really enjoyed them. Quite violent but the storyline flowed and how can you not love a man that loves and talks to dogs, especially when they talk back.

[deborah doudoukjian]

Not my usual

So, as many others have said, this isn’t my usual type of book. Being a dog lover, I had a hard time with the1st few chapters of book one. I did keep reading, and what a ride! Read the 1st four and have ordered the last two.

[d pickering]

Enter a different world, and enjoy

Other reviews were spot on, this series is like nothing I have read before. Now that I have finished the Baer Creighton books I feel like grieving the loss of a close friend. Highly recommended.

[Terri]

Bear Creighton Series 1 &2

Great read. I couldn’t get anything done while reading these stories! Stayed up to long and got up to early just to get into the next chapter.

[ellen maygra]

Really enjoyed these books!
Look forward to reading more from this author.

[carol michaels]

Difficult reading in first chapter. Depraved storyline. Extremely violent, bloody, and vivid descriptions of death. The only redeeming relationship was a man and his dog.

[Mel Buckley]

Strange but likable

Bart is a strange but likeable character that values his kin, his liqour, and his dog but not much else.

[Karen Boyd]

Could not put down

Riveting story about outlaws and family. Good versus evil, family against family.
Riveting book. I read all 4 within 3 days!

[John Williams]

Couldn’t put it down!

Baer Creighton is my kind of guy, he doesn’t take any crap from

any one, and he loves dogs. Great read and I enjoyed it all.

[Al]

Well, it was ok...

[harry fairweather]

I saw the ad for the 4 books just finished them.Absolutely brilliant about to buy number 5.

[gary roe]

New style

Enjoyed this book or rather four books. A unique style of writing puts you there in the story with Baer.

[Marianne Byrum]

Baer Creighton Series 1 to 4

These books were a surprise to me. I love the way Baer talks. And, his dogs, too! I enjoyed these books very much!

[Roberta Blackler]

Best set of books I’ve read for years! Gripped!