Foul Rising by Mark H. Bliss

 Foul Rising by Mark H. Bliss - 201 pages

Floodwalls are meant to protect people. But what if they do just the opposite? What if they only make flooding worse for those not behind the wall? Professor Tanner Holloway thinks so. So does Harvey Winston, mayor of East Elmwood, Illinois, a small, blue-collar village across the Mississippi River from the floodwall-protected city of Elmwood in Southeast Missouri.

This fictional book is based on Cape Girardeau, Missouri.  I have been to Cape Girardeau and have seen the flood wall and its artwork.

Nightmare City by Andrew Klavan

Nightmare City by Andrew Klavan  303 pages

As a reporter for his high school newspaper, Tom Harding was tracking the best story of his life - when, suddenly, his life turned very, very weird. He woke up one morning to find his house empty . . . his street empty . . . his whole town empty . . . empty except for an eerie, creeping fog - and whatever creatures were slowly moving toward him through the fog.
Now Tom's once-ordinary world has become something out of a horror movie. How did it happen? Is it real? Is he dreaming? Has there been a zombie apocalypse? Has he died and gone to hell?
Tom is a good reporter - he knows how to look for answers - but no one has ever covered a story like this before. With the fog closing in and the hungry creatures of the fog surrounding him, he has only a few hours to find out how he lost the world he knew. In this bizarre universe nothing is what it seems and everything - including Tom's life - hangs in the balance.