Serene: A Dr. Rachel E. Color-Me-a-Mystery - Softcover

Musgrave, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1943457271 ISBN 13: 9781943457274

Publisher: EMRE Fiction, 2016

Synopsis

Read the Color-Me-a-Mystery Inspired by the Bhagwan Rashneesh Cult in Oregon

If you’ve watched the Netflix Original documentary, Wild, Wild Country, then you’ll really enjoy reading (and coloring in) SERENE. 

This is the mystery that establishes Dr. Rachel Edelstein as a sleuth with a super-power. Raised on an ashram in California, she is molested by Guru Bhagwan Sharma, but he pays for her college education after her parents are found dead inside a lab working on a secret experiment called “Serene.” 

While working as a psychiatrist in the Israeli Army, she treats two IDF soldiers who had also been members of the Omshanti ashram back home. When they are murdered in a strangely anti-Semitic way, and no DNA evidence can be found, she decides to resign her commission and return to California to try to solve the murders.

After she teams up with another Jewish psychiatrist, Dr. Jacob Stein, who attends the same Kabbalah study group, she is recruited by a scientist who worked with her parents on Serene. Dr. Joshua Lawrence implants the beta test device in her brain, but instead of allowing her to control her own libido, she is able to see the sex traumas of others, in virtual movies that are displayed when they are five feet away or closer to her.

When the third victim, also a Jewish veteran, is murdered, Dr. Rachel E. is able to find clues using her new psychic power from the Serene implant. The new clues lead to Dr. Lawrence, but when he is murdered, the case takes a strange twist. Evidence points to the development of "The Singularity," a device that allows computers to evolve much faster than human brains, which can lead to a way to control people and entire societies through weapons, androids, and implant technology.

In an exciting climax, Rachel and Jacob must track down a mysterious company that is trying to sell their new technology to the Israeli Government. Not only do they believe this company is behind the murders, but they have also connected this group to an international race to establish The Singularity and perhaps become the world’s most powerful terrorist network. This first mystery in the “Dr. Rachel E. Color-Me-a-Mystery Series” introduces you to a woman with a special analytical power that can help her solve many more cases to come.

Buy the first adult coloring book mystery in the series today!

About this title

From the Author:

When I wrote this mystery novel, I was inspired by two developments. The first was the conflict surrounding the Bhagwan Rashneesh cult in Oregon. This controversy is now featured in the Netflix Original Documentary, WILD, WILD COUNTRY.

The second development was the popularity of adult coloring books.

The result is SERENE, a Dr. Rachel Edelstein "Color-Me-a-Mystery," the first ever combination mystery and coloring book for adult readers.

The differences between the actual cult in Oregon and my fictional cult are these:

1. The Rashneeshees were located in Oregon, and my cult is in San Diego (home of the Heaven's Gate, Marshall Applewhite cult).
2. My cult develops scientific products that can be sold at a great profit, whereas the Rashneesh cult never developed beyond being an agricultural and crafts cult.
3. In my cult, the protagonist, Rachel Edelstein, gets sexually molested by the cult leader, Bhagwan Sharma, and she also becomes the "sleuth" who wants to find out how her scientist parents were murdered.
4. My mystery has many science fiction elements that propose military androids and other developments that were never a part of the Rashneesh cult.

After teaching and working at Caltech for many years, I wanted to show the dangers of combining high technology with a cult-like worship of power and an attempt to bring about The Singularity. I purposely use Israel in my mystery because Israel is on the verge of becoming a dangerous militant power, and my protagonist is a Jew who needs to reconcile this paradoxical fact to prevent her own mental and emotional breakdown. The serene "implant" gives Dr. Edelstein a power she never expected, and it helps her to solve the mystery.

I hope you enjoy this fast-paced, exciting mystery developed for your adult pleasure.

James Musgrave

About this edition

• Publisher: EMRE Fiction
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1943457271
• ISBN 13: 9781943457274
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 113
• Illustrator: Fedric Amada