Review: A NASTY LITTLE BACKWOODS TALE!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 18, 2013
Jonathan Janz's Kindle novella, The Clearing of Travis Coble, is a clever, twisty little tale of backwoods life and the skewed morality of its denizens.  With a tip of the hat to the seminal backwoods thriller DELIVERANCE, Janz takes that story and imbues it with new life, or shall I say death.  This is a great, ulitmately disturbing, story about a college professor who tracks down an acquitted killer in an attempt to feather his cap at his university and, hopefully,  find out what really happened to the two missing brothers for which the acquitted brother, Travis Coble, was tried.  Janz has really matured over the past couple of years, spinning several novels which Samhain Press has published, and augmenting his fiction output with shorter novelettes and novellas.  I think he shines at the shorter length, but that's just my opinion.  A very fine read!