Literary Hunger

In the sun-bleached penal town of Parchman Falls, inmate Ezra Voss isn't fighting for civil rights—he's rewriting them. After a routine grievance over spoiled rations gets him transferred to a minimum-security work detail, he discovers that the warden’s wife has been collecting first editions of crime classics. When guards start turning up dead, posed exactly like scenes from *Crime and Punishment*, *The Postman Always Rings Twice*, and *American Psycho*, the town panics. But Ezra, who has read every book in the prison library twice, sees the pattern before anyone else. The real killer isn't a literary snob—it's a survivalist who uses fiction as a map to eliminate anyone who stands between the inmates and a single decent meal. As the body count rises, Ezra must decide: expose the killer and save the system that starves him, or let the bloodshed continue—because for the first time, the prison kitchen is serving real meat.