Killing Them Again

A girl disappears. A sewer pipe explodes. Reporter Babe Lincoln smells something rotten. Armed with a box of shredded files and a trail of odd clues, Babe heads to Canada with her glamorous sidekick, B-movie starlet Ariana Barbeau. The trail leads to a cottage on Bear Lake near the offbeat village of Moosetown. The captive has attitude. The parrot won't shut up. And the kidnapper struts like a rooster between costume changes. Lies pile up. Truth slips sideways. Babe must decide how far she'll go and what she's willing to risk to finish her story. Killing Them Again is a satirical thriller about buried truths, twisted power, and the women who refuse to be silenced.Dave Vaughan wrote the screenplay of the award-winning film, Hokum, directed by Jared Bratt. Advocate, was another film written by him. His debut novel, Ballet of Deception, was published in 2023 and his short story, "Unscheduled Departure" appeared in the Hill Spirits VI anthology in 2024. Killing Them Again, is the inaugural winner of the first AI-judged writing competition presented by MyPoolitzer, Quantifiction, and Blue Denim Press.

After a successful career as a locomotive engineer, Dave Vaughan studied writing at George Brown College in Toronto before escaping to the quieter shores of Cobourg. Now retired, he splits his time between spoiling his grandchildren, dodging yard work, and conjuring up strange new characters who refuse to leave him alone. He is the author of the novel Ballet of Deception and is currently at work on his third novel, another twisted tale sure to draw readers into the shadowy corners of his imagination.