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The Pendragon Legend (Pushkin Collection)
by Antal SzerbWhile visiting a Welsh castle, a young scholar finds himself at the center of occult rituals and a murder mystery in this &“absolute treat&” of a gothic detective story (The Guardian) At an end-of-the London season soiree, the young Hungarian scholar-dilettante Janos Batky is introduced to the Earl of Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric who is the subject of strange rumors. Invited to the family seat, Pendragon Castle in North Wales, Batky receives a mysterious phone-call warning him not to go. But go he does, plunging him into a bizarre world of mysticism and romance, animal experimentation, and planned murder. His quest to solve the central mystery takes him down strange byways-old libraries and warehouse cellars, Welsh mountains and underground tombs. The Pendragon Legend is Antal Szerb's first novel and is a gently satirical blend of gothic and romantic genres, crossed with the murder mystery format to produce a fast-moving and often hilarious romp. But beneath the surface, the reader becomes aware of a steely intelligence probing moral, psychological, and religious questions.
The Pendragon Murders: A Merlin Investigation
by J.M.C. BlairMerlin investigates a royal mystery at Stonehenge. A baron and his sons are found dead at Stonehenge. King Arthur's potential heirs start to mysteriously die. <P><P>And only Merlin can prove that the murders are not the work of the plague, but something much more sinister.
El péndulo
by Rafael Ábalos¿Estarías dispuesto a ocultar la más terrible de las verdades para salvaguardar el orden mundial? Dos años después de la llegada de Barack Obama a la presidencia de Estados Unidos, un hombre negro aparece ahorcado en la sede de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York con una nota clavada en el pecho que amenaza con "hacer desaparecer el cielo y hacer temblar la tierra". El FBI oculta la noticia y Donovan, jefe de prensa de la ONU, se encarga de que el insólito suceso no trascienda a los medios de comunicación. Pero no puede evitar compartir sus temores con la periodista Loanne Harvey: ¿quién es la víctima?, ¿qué significa esa nota apocalíptica?, ¿qué amenaza se cierne sobre las Naciones Unidas? A partir de entonces, Donovan y Loanne se verán envueltos en una emocionante carrera plagada de trampas, engaños y conspiraciones, que los hará oscilar entre la verdad y la mentira con la cadencia constante de un péndulo en movimiento. La meta: el hall de la Asamblea General de la ONU. En juego: la llegada del caos absoluto a la tierra.
El péndulo
by Rafael Ábalos¿Estarías dispuesto a ocultar la más terrible de las verdades para salvaguardar el orden mundial? Dos años después de la llegada de Barack Obama a la presidencia de Estados Unidos, un hombre negro aparece ahorcado en la sede de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York con una nota clavada en el pecho que amenaza con "hacer desaparecer el cielo y hacer temblar la tierra". El FBI oculta la noticia y Donovan, jefe de prensa de la ONU, se encarga de que el insólito suceso no trascienda a los medios de comunicación. Pero no puede evitar compartir sus temores con la periodista Loanne Harvey: ¿quién es la víctima?, ¿qué significa esa nota apocalíptica?, ¿qué amenaza se cierne sobre las Naciones Unidas? A partir de entonces, Donovan y Loanne se verán envueltos en una emocionante carrera plagada de trampas, engaños y conspiraciones, que los hará oscilar entre la verdad y la mentira con la cadencia constante de un péndulo en movimiento. La meta: el hall de la Asamblea General de la ONU. En juego: la llegada del caos absoluto a la tierra.
El péndulo de Foucault
by Umberto Eco«Una novela mágica sobre la magia, una novela misteriosa sobre el secreto y sobre la creatividad de la ficción, una novela agitada, una novela luminosa sobre un mundo subterráneo.»Jacques Le Goff, L'Espresso Tres intelectuales que trabajan en una editorial de Milán establecen contacto con autores interesados en las ciencias ocultas, las sociedades secretas y las conjuras cósmicas. En un primer momento dicha relación se mantiene estrictamente profesional, pero poco a poco van estrechándose los lazos. Editores y autores inventan juntos, por puro juego, un complejo «plan», urdido supuestamente por los templarios siete siglos atrás. Pero alguien toma demasiado en serio el juego, y todos ellos se verán inmersos en una inquietante pesadilla...
Pendulum
by Adam HamdySolitary photojournalist John Wallace struggles to consciousness to find he has been bound and blindfolded by a masked man who is preparing to hang him in his own living room. Forced onto a chair with a noose around his neck, Wallace briefly reconsiders his mostly lonely life before the chair is kicked out beneath him and his world fades to black.Then he gets lucky and manages to escape his apartment, just ahead of his assailant. Bloody, barefoot, and with at least one broken rib, he has no choice but to run for his life. With no idea who would want to kill him, he makes it to the hospital and files a police report, but it soon becomes clear that as far as the authorities are concerned the only threat to Wallace's life is himself, and he is placed under suicide watch. When his would-be killer strikes again, Wallace realizes he will have to figure out who is hunting him and stop him on his own. The pendulum of fate swung briefly in his favor, but it's only a matter of time before its momentum carries it to the other side . . .
Pendulum: the explosive debut thriller (BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice)
by Adam Hamdy'ONE OF THE BEST THRILLERS OF THE YEAR' - JAMES PATTERSON, bestselling author.A photographer is mysteriously targeted for death in this white-knuckle ride deep into a terrifying conspiracy. If you love Lee Child's JACK REACHER and Terry Hayes' I AM PILGRIM you won't be able to put this down.'James Patterson calls it "one of the best thrillers of the year", and it is plain to see why...told at a great pace, has a strong central character and a snaking plot' - Daily MailYou wake. Confused. Disorientated.A noose is round your neck. You are bound, standing on a chair.All you can focus on is the man in the mask tightening the rope.You are about to die.John Wallace has no idea why he has been targeted. No idea who his attacker is. No idea how he will prevent the inevitable. Then the pendulum of fate swings in his favour. He has one chance to escape, find the truth and halt his destruction. The momentum is in his favour for now. But with a killer on his tail, everything can change with one swing of this deadly pendulum...You have one chance. Run.
Pendulum: the explosive debut thriller (BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice)
by Adam Hamdy'ONE OF THE BEST THRILLERS OF THE YEAR' - JAMES PATTERSON, bestselling author.A photographer is mysteriously targeted for death in this white-knuckle ride deep into a terrifying conspiracy. If you love Lee Child's JACK REACHER and Terry Hayes' I AM PILGRIM you won't be able to put this down.'James Patterson calls it "one of the best thrillers of the year", and it is plain to see why...told at a great pace, has a strong central character and a snaking plot' - Daily MailYou wake. Confused. Disorientated.A noose is round your neck. You are bound, standing on a chair.All you can focus on is the man in the mask tightening the rope.You are about to die.John Wallace has no idea why he has been targeted. No idea who his attacker is. No idea how he will prevent the inevitable. Then the pendulum of fate swings in his favour. He has one chance to escape, find the truth and halt his destruction. The momentum is in his favour for now. But with a killer on his tail, everything can change with one swing of this deadly pendulum...You have one chance. Run.
Pendulum: the explosive debut thriller (BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice) (Pendulum #1)
by Adam HamdyAn everyman is targeted for death by a serial killer in this high-concept, searing novel that looks at the way that we now live. A twisting, dangerous journey through a digital underworld, it heralds Adam Hamdy as an outstanding new talent. For fans of I AM PILGRIM and John Grisham.You wake. Confused. Disorientated.A noose is round your neck. You are bound, standing on a chair.All you can focus on is the man in the mask tightening the rope.You are about to die.John Wallace has no idea why he has been targeted. No idea who his attacker is. No idea how he will prevent the inevitable. Then the pendulum of fate swings in his favour. He has one chance to escape, find the truth and halt his destruction. The momentum is in his favour for now. But with a killer on his tail, everything can change with one swing of this deadly pendulum...Targeted for death. Then fate intervenes. You have one chance. Run.(P)2016 Headline Digital
Penelope
by Howard FastDissatisfied with life on the Upper East Side, a socialite finds a new favorite pastime: robbing banksWhen James R. Hastings, president of the City Federal Bank, began construction of a new branch on Madison Avenue, he vowed to make it burglar proof. Vaults set forty feet below ground, an array of cameras, and a quartet of burly guards were intended to deter any bandit. But James Hastings did not count on being robbed by his wife. Three weeks after the bank opens, a demure old woman removes a Luger from her handbag and asks a clerk to empty her register, then disappears into the bathroom with a haul of over $50,000. When the guards arrive, a scared young woman flees the bathroom and points them to the stalls. Inside, they find nothing but a discarded disguise, while the young woman walks calmly out the front door. This is Penelope Hastings—a bored banker&’s wife who, now that she has taken up crime, will never be bored again. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&’s estate.
The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries
by Michael SimsFor classic murder mystery readers, a scintillating anthology of lost treasures to read alongside Edgar Allan Poe and Sherlock HolmesA Penguin ClassicFor The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries, writer and anthologist Michael Sims did not summon the usual suspects. He sought the unfamiliar, the unjustly forgotten, and little-known gems by writers from outside the genre. This historical tour of one of our most popular literary categories includes stories never before reprinted, features rebellious early &“lady detectives," and spotlights former stars of the crime field—Austrian novelist Auguste Groner and prolific American Geraldine Bonner among them. For twenty-first century connoisseurs of crime, The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries celebrates how the nineteenth century added a fierce modern twist to the ancient theme of bloody murder.
The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime
by Michael SimsA wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn't like to be told what to do. And, in crime fiction, such female detectives as Loveday Brooke, Dorcas Dene, and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard are out there shadowing suspects, crawling through secret passages, fingerprinting corpses, and sometimes committing a lesser crime in order to solve a murder. In The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime, Michael Sims has brought together all of the era's great crime-fighting females- plus a few choice crooks, including Four Square Jane and the Sorceress of the Strand.
The Penguin Complete Father Brown
by G. K. ChestertonAll five books: The Innocence, Wisdom, Incredulity, Secret, and Scandal of Father Brown, each containing short stories of the famous amateur sleuth.
Penguin Lost
by George Bird Andrey KurkovThe long-awaited sequel to the acclaimed Death and the PenguinAndrey Kurkov's first book to be published in English, Death and the Penguin, was hailed by leading critics in the US and the UK as "a tragicomic masterpiece" (The Daily Telegraph) of suspense about life on the crime-riddled streets of an impoverished, post-Soviet Kiev. But until now, fans haven't been able to read the sequel and find out what happened to Viktor and his silent cohort, the penguin Misha, whom Viktor was forced to abandon at the end of the novel while fleeing Mafia vengeance.Admirers need wait no longer. Now available for the first time in the US, Penguin Lost sees Viktor grab at the opportunity to return to Kiev incognito and launch an intensive, guilt-wracked search for Misha.It's a search that will take Viktor across the Ukraine to Moscow and back, vividly depicting a troubled landscape. It once again lands Viktor in league with a series of criminals and corrupt officials, each of whom know something of what happened to Misha, and each of whom are willing to pass that information along if Viktor will just help them with one more job. . . And it's a tale told once again in a style that's part Bulgakov and part Hitchcock, simultaneously funny and ominous, nearly absurd and all-too-real.Readers may find themselves rooting even harder for Viktor this time, as he presses forward on his odyssey under even more dangerous circumstances, in another brilliantly rich and topical book from a contemporary Russian master.From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Penguin Pool Murder (The Hildegarde Withers Mysteries #1)
by Stuart PalmerOn a trip to the New York Aquarium with her third-grade class, a teacher discovers a dead body: &“One of the world&’s shrewdest and most amusing detectives&” (The New York Times). For the third graders at Jefferson School, a field trip is always a treat. But one day at the New York Aquarium, they get much more excitement than they bargained for. A pickpocket sprints past, stolen purse in hand, and is making his way to the exit when their teacher, the prim Hildegarde Withers, knocks him down with her umbrella. By the time the police and the security guards finish arguing about what to do with Chicago Lew, he has escaped, and Miss Withers has found something far more interesting: a murdered stockbroker floating in the penguin tank. With the help of Detective Oscar Piper, this no-nonsense spinster embarks on her first of many adventures. The mystery is baffling, the killer dangerous, but for a woman who can control a gaggle of noisy third graders, murder isn&’t frightening at all. The Penguin Pool Murder is part of the Hildegarde Withers Mysteries series, which also includes Murder on the Blackboard and Murder on Wheels.
The Penguin Who Knew Too Much (Meg Langslow #8)
by Donna AndrewsThe day Meg and her fiance Michael move into their new house, someone discovers a dead body.
Penhallow (Country House Mysteries #10)
by Georgette Heyer"Miss Heyer's characters act and speak with an ease and conviction that is as refreshing as it is rare in the ordinary mystery novel. "-Times Literary Supplement"The characters are. . . among the most complex and believable characters she has created. "-Boston Evening TranscriptA family tyrant whose murder has shocking and far-reaching consequences. . . Hated for his cruel and vicious nature, yet ruling his family with an iron hand from his sickbed, tyrannical patriarch Adam Penhallow is found murdered the day before his birthday. His entire family had assembled for his birthday celebration, and every one of them had the ways and means to commit the crime. As accusation and suspicion turn in one direction, then another, the claws and backstabbing come out, and no one is exempt from the coming implosion. What readers are saying:"The psychology of the suspects was fascinating. ""An impressive piece of writing, darker than Heyer's other mysteries. "Georgette Heyerwrote over fifty books, including Regency romances, mysteries, and historical fiction. Her barrister husband, Ronald Rougier, provided many of the plots for her detective novels, which are classic English country house mysteries reminiscent of Agatha Christie. Heyer was legendary for her research, historical accuracy, inventive plots, and sparkling characterization.
Penitence: A Novel
by Kristin KovalFor readers of Ann Patchett and Celeste Ng, Penitence is a poignant exploration of love and forgiveness. It’s a suspenseful, addictive page-turner filled with literary insight that compels readers to consider whether the worst thing we’ve ever done is all that defines us.When a shocking murder occurs in the home of Angie and David Sheehan, their lives are shattered. Desperate to defend their family, they turn to small-town lawyer Martine Dumont for help, but Martine isn’t just legal counsel—she’s also the mother of Angie’s first love, Julian, a now-successful New York City criminal defense attorney. As Julian and Angie confront their shared past and long-buried guilt from a tragic accident years ago, they must navigate their own culpability and the unresolved feelings between them.Spanning decades, from the ski slopes of rural Colorado to the streets of pre-9/11 New York City and back again, Kristin Koval’s debut novel Penitence is an examination of the complexities of familial loyalty, the journey of redemption, and the profound experience of true forgiveness.
Penitencia
by Pablo RiveroInquietante, adictiva y perturbadora Pablo Rivero regresa con su novela más personal Jon lleva veinte años interpretando a un asesino en la serie más longeva de la televisión española y, pese a que la fama y el dinero le acompañan, vive tan atormentado por el personaje que representa que decide abandonarlo todo y retirarse a una casa perdida en un bosque aledaño a un pequeño pueblo. Solo tiene que asegurarse de que nadie se entere de que vive ahí y evitar a toda costa que la prensa y los paparazzi lo arruinen todo. No sospecha que librarse de su alter ego no será tan fácil. Sin embargo, al poco de instalarse una serie de escabrosos sucesos alterará su tan ansiada tranquilidad y tendrá que luchar por que los secretos que ocultan esos bosques no traigan de vuelta al personaje que tanto teme. Aunque quizá nunca se haya ido. Pablo Rivero se confirma como un joven talento enel panorama literario actual con este perturbador domestic noir que, como ya hizo con No volveré a tener miedo, nos sumerge en una atmósfera inquietante y magnética que engancha desde la primera página. «Cuando eres actor te pasas la mayor parte del tiempo intentando impregnar al personaje con tu esencia para que cobre vida. Para que todo lo que hagas resulte veraz. Cuando lo has conseguido y el público no puede imaginárselo de otra manera, cuando ya no puede separarte de él y son incapaces de diferenciar la realidad de la ficción, en lugar de felicitarte por haberlo conseguido y disfrutar, te pasas el día justificándote, haciendo ver a todo el mundo lo muy diferente que eres de él. Recordándoles que lo que han visto no es real, que tú no eres el personaje. Pero ya es demasiado tarde. Por mucho que huyas e intentes desprenderte de tu alter ego, su esencia ya se ha mezclado con la tuya y jamás volverás a ser el mismo. Su sangre corre junto a la tuya por tus venas y la mezcla de ambas te puede llevar a hacer cosas que nunca hubieras imaginado. Esta es la historia de cómo Jon se convirtió en su personaje, o lo que es lo mismo, de cómo su personaje se adueñó de él y cambió el rumbo de su vida para siempre».
Penjat
by Daniel ColeCom es pot atrapar un assassí que ja és mort? Un cadàver, amb la paraula «ESQUER» gravada al pit, apareix penjat al pont de Brooklyn. Una nova víctima apareix a Londres amb la paraula «TITELLA». A banda i banda de l'Atlàntic, els investigadors s'enfronten a assassinats cada vegada més sòrdids i rocambolescos. La seva única esperança és esbrinar qui en belluga els fils. Un thriller amb la tensió i els temps perfectament calculats perquè el lector no se'n pugui desenganxar.
PennDutch Mystery Series Box Set 1-3 (Amish Bed & Breakfast Mystery #10)
by Tamar MyersThe first three titles in the PennDutch Amish Bed & Breakfast Mystery Series in a box set! TOO MANY CROOKS SPOIL THE BROTH This debut mystery introduces Magdalena Yoder, prim, proper, and persnickety proprietor of the PennDutch Inn, where guests luxuriate in the true "Amish experience," (read: doing Magdalena's chores and paying top dollar for the opportunity!). What at first seems to be a horrible accident (and insurance nightmare for Magdalena!) could turn out to be a much more sinister event; and when another mishap occurs, Magdalena is certain there is a killer in her group - and it's up to her to sniff out the culprit...before the world's most incompetent town sheriff throws her in jail! Readers will delight in this laugh-out-loud cozy mystery debut - and relish the country cooking recipes included. PARSLEY, SAGE, ROSEMARY AND CRIME Magdalena Yoder, chaste and abstemious proprietor of the Pennsylvania Dutch Inn, agrees to let a Hollywood crew film at the inn - for an exorbitant price, of course. But when the assistant director is found pinned to a barn post with a farming tool, dimwitted local police chief, Marvin Stoltzfus fingers Magdalena as his prime suspect. Now it's time for Magdalena to use her extraordinary Amish sleuthing skills to reveal the real killer - before another Hollywood hellion goes belly up and turns Magdalena's charming PennDutch Inn into a grisly horror flick! NO USE DYING OVER SPILLED MILK Magdalena Yoder, Amish-Mennonite proprietor of the Pennsylvania Dutch Inn, travels to Farmersburg, Ohio for the funeral of her second cousin (twice removed) who had the unfortunate luck of drowning in a vat of milk...and, as Magdalena knows, Amish men just don't go swimming in milk in the middle of February. Something's definitely rotten in Farmersburg... When another relative is found belly up, Magdalena puts her (impressive, but attractive nonetheless, thank you very much) nose to the scent and discovers that a vicious cheese rivalry may be the cause of all this mayhem! In between keeping tabs on her saucy sister, Susannah, avoiding her sardine-loving host and spending time with her new boyfriend, Aaron Miller (a.k.a. Pooky Bear), Magdalena must find the killer...before more Yoders bite the dust!
Penne Dreadful (Italian Chef Mysteries #1)
by Catherine BrunsTomato sauce isn't the only thing that runs red...Local chef Tessa Esposito is struggling to get back on her feet following her husband's fatal accident. And when the police knock on Tessa's door, things just get worse. They've discovered Dylan's death wasn't an accident after all, and they need Tessa to start filling in the blanks. Who would want her beloved husband dead, and why? With the investigation running cold, Tessa decides it's time to save her sanity by reconnecting with her first love-cooking. And maybe the best way back into the kitchen is to infiltrate Dylan's favorite local pizza parlor, which also happens to be the last place he was seen before he died. But the anchovies aren't the only thing that stink inside the small family business, and with suspects around every corner, Tessa finds that her husband's many secrets might land her in hot water.
Penned (Kate Turner, DVM, Mysteries #4)
by Eileen Brady"Veterinarian Brady imbues this page-turner with authentic details about a vet and the critters she treats." —Kirkus ReviewDr. Kate Turner, DVM, is seven months into her one-year contract to cover for a Hudson Valley vet taking a year-long world cruise. She's getting used to the hospital and house-call workload but not to the sometimes dangerous, if not deadly, critters—animal and human—she meets.Eighty-something-year-old Gloria LaGuardia has been installed at an assisted living center by her niece. They bump into Kate at the Oak Falls annual Halloween street bash. And while Gloria's conversation indicates some mental confusion—she asks a couple dressed as rabbits if they are real or not—she's still sharp. And she says, "Someone evil is here. I saw him."Saw who? Will this chance meeting draw Kate into the path of Carl Wolf, a notorious fugitive twenty-one years on the FBI's Most Wanted List? Is Wolf hiding in plain sight in or around Oak Falls?When Gloria, once an artist endowed with a sharp eye, is murdered, Kate doesn't know what to think. But author Tucker Weinstein approaches her at Gloria's funeral and indicates he believes the old woman. Further, he's devoting a chapter in his book to Carl Wolf.The FBI doesn't appear interested. Gloria's family just wants to move on. But publicity-hungry Tucker mentions Kate in a newspaper interview that goes viral. She's overloaded with new clients like Billy, a Nubian stud goat living penned up with alpaca, llamas, and more goats on a local farm producing milk, wool, and cheese, and a grumpy Chihuahua dressed up like a Thanksgiving turkey. Yet she senses someone is now following her. An undercover FBI agent? Carl Wolf on the prowl?Determined not to be a victim, Kate digs deep into the arson/murder Wolf committed long ago. Are the clues to unmasking him hidden in the past, or closer than she thinks?
Penned In (A Farm-to-Fork Mystery)
by Lynn CahoonAngie Turner, chef at Idaho&’s finest farm-to-table restaurant, has organized a team-building event at a haunted prison, only to find a real-life murderer in their midst. . . . Contented employees make for a successful restaurant, which is why the County Seat&’s crew goes on a quarterly out-of-office meeting. This time, the location is the Old Idaho Penitentiary near the Boise Foothills, a prison brimming with ghostly lore. The lock-in features actors role-playing as guards, fascinating prison stories . . . and an unscripted murder. Who sentenced one of the faux guards to a very authentic death? Angie, her boyfriend, and the County Seat gang are locked in with a killer—excellent motivation for a little sleuthing. Between ghostly apparitions and flesh-and-blood suspects, Angie&’s plate is full, but will her luck, and her life, hold out until the gates reopen at dawn? Praise for Lynn Cahoon's Tourist Trap Mysteries &“Murder, dirty politics, pirate lore, and a hot police detective: Guidebook to Murder has it all! A cozy lover&’s dream come true.&”—Susan McBride, author of The Debutante Dropout Mysteries &“Lynn Cahoon has created an absorbing, good fun mystery in Mission to Murder.&”—Fresh Fiction
Pennies from Heaven
by James P. BlaylockJerry Larkin discovers an age-old secret buried beneath the foundation of the house that he and his wife Jane, an avid reader of ghost stories, bought six months ago in the idyllic town of Old Orange in southern California.Jane Larkin, whose MacArthur grant led to the creation of public gardens and a farmers market in the town’s central park, works against time to save what she has built as a 100-year storm moves in off the coast.Lettie Phibbs, a strange librarian whose Antiquity Center holds the secrets to the hidden history of Old Orange, inserts herself into the Larkins’ lives, growing increasingly eccentric and menacing, as unpredictable as the storm itself.PENNIES FROM HEAVEN, a six-day mystery, tells the tale of a small town haunted by the reanimated ghosts of a buried past, a story that reaches a terrifying crescendo of murder and intrigue in a high-paced rush toward fate and redemption.Praise For Pennies From Heaven"Pennies from Heaven is a gripping mash-up of mystery, history, thriller and horror. Expect conspirators, murderers, fraudsters, charlatans and unquiet spirits among the cheerful co-op gardeners. Author James P Blaylock weaves these diverse strands with effortless skill, painting people and landscapes with the authentic touch of long familiarity. You can almost smell the desert, the wet wind, and that very malicious ghost." —Clare Rhoden, Aurealis #161"The supernatural elements in the book are vital and well done (the eventual capture of the ghost is colorful and ingenious), but the spook stuff takes a backseat to the human dynamics, the caper aspect and the interpersonal hijinks. Blaylock has always had an affection for eccentrics, misfits and visionaries, and while Jane and Jerry are more “normal” and wholesome than his typical cast, they qualify as non-whitebread souls. As for Phibbs, Blaylock succeeds in creating a true monster." — Paul Di Filippo, Locus Magazine