Avalon Moon

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Avalon Moon

by Michael Amos Cody
ISBN: 978-1-963695-67-0 paperback $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-963695-68-7 ebook $9.99

May 19, 2026

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF STREETS OF NASHVILLE

In Avalon Moon, a local man has gone missing and then is soon found dead in a highland meadow, side-by-side with an unknown woman. When another man and woman go missing and a female deputy is found murdered, Gabriel Tanner, editor of Runion’s weekly newspaper, and Plumer Reeves, a reclusive local hawkshaw working for the niece of the first dead man, suspect a monster is hunting in their western North Carolina mountains. Two extraordinary young women, the Avalon community’s Ariel Anderson and Lonesome Mountain’s Livvy Goforth, join Tanner and Reeves to lead the attempt to discover and stop the killer.

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Praise for Avalon Moon by Michael Amos Cody

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In Avalon Moon, Michael Amos Cody has written a story that has the dark and haunted feel of an old-time Appalachian ballad. Literary echoes of writers such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Charles Brockden Brown add to the novel’s richness and make Avalon Moon an exceptional addition to the genre of Southern Gothic fiction.—Ron Rash, author of Serena and The Caretaker

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Michael Amos Cody’s Avalon Moon is a deliciously gothic tale stitched into a brutal murder mystery. As a serial killer stalks the mountains of North Carolina, Cody’s precise language shifts effortlessly like light through the trees – from lush gothic poetry to gritty Appalachian realism. Facing ancient gods and hungry beasts in the deep woods, the reader can’t help but dread a darker truth: evil is only ever a breath away.—Andrew K. Clark, author of Where Dark Things Grow and Where Dark Things Rise

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Michael Amos Cody delivers a thrilling and tense Appalachian noir in his latest novel Avalon Moon. By turns suspenseful and evocative, this story of a killer on the loose is exactly the kind of story that will keep you up at night. Deftly written, with a sharp ear for dialogue and a faultless sense of place, Cody affirms his place as one of the most exciting writers of crime fiction in Appalachia today.—Charles Dodd White, author of In the House of Wilderness and How Fire Runs

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Praise for Cody’s previous novel, Streets of Nashville

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… Cody is a talented new voice in Southern fiction whose stories will appear on bookshelves for many years to come.—C.W. Blackwell, author of Hard Mountain Clay

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An elegantly written, mysterious and electric crime novel. Michael Amos Cody’s experience as a Nashville songwriter and Ezra MacRae’s encyclopedic knowledge of country music bring Streets of Nashville to life.—Alex Kenna, author of What Meets the Eye and Burn This Night

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…a haunting tribute to the resilience needed to survive—and thrive—in the heart of Music City, solidifying him as one of the region’s most compelling voices.—Christy Alexander Hallberg, author of Searching for Jimmy Page 

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Michael Amos Cody was born in the South Carolina Lowcountry and raised in the North Carolina highlands. He spent his twenties writing songs in Nashville and his thirties in school. He’s the author of the novel Gabriel’s Songbook (Pisgah Press 2017) and the short story collection A Twilight Reel (Pisgah Press 2021), winner of the Short Story / Anthology category of the Feathered Quill Book Awards 2022. Cody’s novel Streets of Nashville (Madville Publishing 2025) was named a Finalist for the Best Thriller Book Awards 2025 by bestthrillers.com and won the Independent Press Award 2026 in the category of Thriller. Cody lives with his wife Leesa in Jonesborough, Tennessee, and teaches in the Department of Literature and Language at East Tennessee State University.