The Gorge Butcher: A Red River Gorge Thriller, (Paperback)

In Kentucky's Red River Gorge, the woods do not give up their dead easily.<br>When six college students vanish from an illegal campsite after a night of rain, rumors spread faster than the search teams can move. At first, Detective Ellie Mercer expects the usual explanations: bad weather, alcohol, cliffs, panic, a wrong turn in unforgiving terrain. But the Gorge has its own history, and the missing students are only the first fracture in something much older.<br>Near the campsite, investigators uncover a rock shelter filled with bones, old fire remains, handmade fiber, and markings no one can explain. Then a warning arrives from someone watching the search from the trees: YOU LOOK TOO CLOSE.<br>As Ellie follows the evidence deeper into the Gorge, she is drawn into a world of hidden trails, buried crimes, local legends, and a terrifying question no official report can answer. What if the monster people fear is not the thing in the woods-but the human evil that learned how to hunt beside it?<br>Atmospheric, brutal, and emotionally charged, The Gorge Butcher blends literary suspense, Appalachian horror, police procedural, and creature myth into a haunting novel about grief, survival, and the stories people choose when the truth is too terrible to face.<br>For readers who love dark wilderness thrillers, morally complex detectives, ancient secrets, and horror grounded in human consequence.

• The Gorge Butcher: A Red River Gorge Thriller, (Paperback)
• Author: Curt Boggs
• ISBN: 9798198729827
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-05-26
• Page Count: 220