Ghost Hauler A Novel | Stephen Van Olsen | The Nikkie Group LLC

The FBI's Highway Serial Killings Initiative has linked over 850 murders to long-haul truckers. Ghost Hauler takes you inside the cab of one of them.

For decades, Stephen Van Olsen has driven America's interstates: clean logbooks, polite small talk at truck stops, a growing collection of teeth in his glovebox. He hides in plain sight while the ghosts of his victims ride shotgun, their voices growing louder with every mile.

Told entirely from the killer's calm, methodical point of view, Ghost Hauler is a psychological deep-dive with no heroes and no redemption arc. The prose is spare and declarative, the dread relentless. Van Olsen doesn't explain himself. He doesn't need to.

Readers who questioned whether The Hunter's Craft was actually fiction will find that same unnerving quality here: a narrator so credible, so banal, that the horror lands not in the acts but in the ordinary miles between them.

Ideal for fans of: Thomas Harris, Jim Thompson, Donald Ray Pollock, and true-crime style killer narratives.

Standalone novel. No prior reading required. Also Book 2 in the Stephen Van Olsen series.

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