Before he was killed, Morse tried to explain that the killer was actually local townsperson Ubel Griswold. Thirty years ago, Oren 'Bone Man' Morse was murdered by several townspeople that believed that he was responsible for a series of brutal and gruesome murders in the town of Pine Deep. In Material Witness, a stand-alone short story that takes place in the early days of Joe Ledger's service in the Department of Military Sciences (a top secret division of Homeland Security), Joe Ledger and the DMS must protect a Pine Deep resident spook and author who is in over his head with the wrong people and may know more than he is letting on and in Pine Deep, nothing is what it seems. Pine Deep also appears in a crossover short story of Jonathan Maberry's Joe Ledger series of books, Material Witness. The first book in the series, Ghost Road Blues, won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel in 2006 and was one of Complex magazine's '25 Best Horror Novels of the New Millennium'. The trilogy is composed of Ghost Road Blues, Dead Man's Song, and Bad Moon Rising. In the books the town is considered to be 'the most haunted town in America' and has a booming supernatural tourism industry based around the town's history and Halloween.

The series is set in Pine Deep, a fictional rural Pennsylvania town that becomes plagued by an evil force thought previously killed thirty years ago. The Pine Deep Trilogy is a series of supernatural horror novels by Jonathan Maberry. Series of novels by Jonathan Maberry Pine Deep Trilogy Ghost Road Blues,

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