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|  | | Night Crimes
Most of us who travel the New York City subways have moments of paranoia. We squeeze ourselves into a narrow space between two robust fellow travelers and then feel threatened when someone’s hand accidentally brushes against our thigh. We are convinced that everyone is looking at us strangely, or perhaps it’s just that man in the red shirt who dared to smile at us. groundless fear that accompanies us on our daily journeys. Lara Bello, a Jamaican-American artist, has been having these feelings lately. She is convinced that someone is following her, watching her every move. But no one believes her, not even her loving husband, Police Sergeant Tony Bello. Why should he? There is no reason why someone should want to follow an art instructor.
This is the argument Lara uses to convince herself while riding the subway. She was being paranoid. No one was watching her. What was there to watch? However, Lara is being persistently pursued by the man in the blue baseball cap, and he is on the train with her. He goes everywhere she does. He keeps vigil outside her Brooklyn brownstone while she, her husband, and three sons sleep. He follows her into her classroom, and tracks her to her farm upstate when she flees there to escape him.
At the same time, Lara’s husband is immersed in his own mystery. Someone is poisoning derelicts and leaving their bodies for him to find.
These two distinct scenarios begin the world of Night Crimes. The plot is intricate and riveting, weaving a complex tale of murder, obsession, and duplicity. How this ordinary couple act and think when confronted with such extraordinary circumstances is a crucial part of the narrative.
Night Crimes is exciting and suspenseful, holding the audience’s attention to the last page. The police work is authentic and well researched, but above all this lies the story of an average middle class family who find the courage and strength, that lies within us all, to overcome extraordinary and terrifying circumstances. We can all relate to the Bello family. We can even understand the motives of the villains, and this is what makes Night Crimes so real and terrifying at the same time.
| |  | | The Death of Betty Pinto
Betty and Rose are two elderly friends who run a soup kitchen in a building they both own. After a rare public argument between them, Betty is found murdered. Who killed Betty? Is it Rose, who stands to inherit Betty’s half of the building? Detective Blanchard thinks so. Or is it one of the kitchen’s clientele with a grudge against Betty who wasn’t a sweet old lady.
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The Fablesinger is a classic myth of good and evil which although cosmic in its implications, is focused on one island in the Caribbean. The Story begins with a creation myth which introduces the world of The Fablesinger. Then, in the first chapters we are introduced to the old Fablesinger, a wise and powerful shaman and healer. It is the Fablesinger's duty to protect the people in her care both spiritually and physically. Her most important duty is to train an apprentice to succeed her. However, the present Fablesinger has failed to do so and now in the twilight of her life, her village and world are threatened by the evil Obeah man a wielder of dark magic and follower of the Sasambonsam or Lord Of Darkness.
The only hope for the Fablesinger and her world lies in the hands of the untrained girl the spirits have chosen to be the Fablesinger's new apprentice.
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On a cold night in New York City, a group of people are gathered around drums in which small fires are burning. They are trying to keep warm while they watch, in the distance, a huge fire demolish a group of buildings. A man soon joins the group. He appears to know a lot about fires. Soon he begins to entertain his audience with a story about a famous arsonist Gasman.
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AND NOW A WORLD by JERRY LOWENSTEIN
by De Rose
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 Jerry Lowenstein, an octogenarian and a nice guy, has written a fantastic mystery/ suspense novel that takes place just after WW2 on and near Bikini Atoll. He actually witnessed an atomic bomb test. Can you imagine that? |
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