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Freelance insurance investigator Jack Carlson is looking into a rash of accidental deaths in the rural town of Winship. When he reaches the Norman Rockwellesque community, he finds that people there aren't just dying, they're disappearing as well. Soon Carlson is awash with more questions than he can handle: who murdered the town's insurance salesman and his secretary? why did the town doctor commit suicide right in front of him? who, or what, is the mysterious Order of St. Michael? And what's with the town's unearthly, late-night glow? Carlson is an appealing creation, and Tessier has dropped him into the middle of an intriguing twilight zone scenario. Unfortunately, once Tessier sets his world spinning, he's unable to hold it all together, and he ends the story without revealing answers to any of the questions he's so painstakingly raised. Included is an unrelated novella, Scramberg U.S.A.; it tells of a young hoodlum's revenge against the town that done him wrong, another interesting tale that gets away from its author in the end. The result, Tessier's first original novel in almost 10 years, makes for an addictive but unsatisfying read.
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- PublisherCemetery Dance Publications
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1587671743
- ISBN 13 9781587671746
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages233
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. James Higgins (illustrator). NEW BLACK LEATHER-BOUND, HARDBACK in TRAYCASE. SIGNED by THOMAS TESSIER [NO Inscription]. LIMITED Ed. #V/52. Full Color Front Plate. 1st Cemetery Dance Ed./1st Printing. DJ in Clear, ARCHIVAL MYLAR WRAP. NO remainder mark. "Private investigator Jack Carlson is traveling to the small, remote upstate city of Winship to look into a rash of suspicious insurance claims. Like the farmer who accidentally blew himself up in a garnet mine, and the teenager who died in a peculiar car crash. The Winship police and Medical Examiner appear cooperative but offer no real help. Local insurance agent Joe Bellman is evasive and fearful. And shortly after meeting Jack, both Bellman and his secretary Chris Innes turn up dead, an apparent case of murder-suicide. Jack isn't buying any of it. As he pokes behind the Norman Rockwell exterior of Winship, he finds a place smoldering with crime, corruption and bizarre religious fervor. He becomes involved with a club dancer named Kelly, who may know some of the secrets but who may also be a mortal threat to Jack. The town of Winship is itself part of the puzzle, a place where unseen choirs can be heard, where the ground appears to glow, creating confusion and mental disorder in anyone nearby, where gangs of young thugs roam free to bully and beat people. A friend of Kelly's disappears in an open meadow, as if swallowed up by the earth. Behind it all may be a cherubic old priest, Father Jimmy. And as Jack tries to unravel the growing number of mysteries ¿ both criminal and mystical ¿ he finds himself in a fight to save his own life, and sanity." | SHIPS AIRMAIL INTERNATIONALLY! [Extra Postage for International Delivery]. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 000772
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