Rick Zabel: 2 books

Miles Orrick, a lonely old high school art teacher, must hurriedly hide the body of a neurotic sheriff's adulterous wife who died in his apartment during a heavy snowstorm. Scared and confused, he is taken from the beauty and wonder of art and thrust into a world of hate and disarray. Miles has never had to run before -- now he has to run for his life.

Dallas Pittman, a haughty, successful factory accountant from Chicago, moves his emotionally unstable new wife, Ronnie, and unruly teenager, Zazu, back to his decrepit rural hometown, where he is reunited with his two sorely frustrated brothers, each of whom are keenly suspicious as to why he suddenly...