F. E. Higgins: Bone Magician, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Bone Magician
- Publisher:
- St. Martins Press-3PL, 02/2011
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780312659448
- Item number:
- 5362857
- Volume:
- 306 Pages
- Weight:
- 866 g
- Format:
- 235 x 162 mm
- Thickness:
- 33 mm
- Release date:
- 15.2.2011
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
Pin Carpue is on his own in the world. His mother is dead and his father is missing after being labeled a suspect in a rash of murders. Pin finds a job working for the local undertaker as a body watcher, making sure people are really dead before they're buried. The body he's supposed to be watching tonight is currently surrounded by three people engaged in a most unusual ceremony. An old man, a bone magician, and his young female assistant are waking a woman so her grieving fiancé can have one last goodbye with her. Pin can't believe it will work, but then the dead woman sits up and speaks.
Pin is determined to discover how the magic works. He cannot believe they are raising the dead. He cannot believe his father is a murderer. Then Pin himself nearly becomes the killer's next victim.
As this mysterious tale unfolds with delicious creepiness, Pin will learn more about the bone magician, the girl Juno, and a hideous creature called the Gluttonous Beast that is kept in a local tavern where people pay for a glimpse of it.
Biography
F. E. Higgins wurde in London geboren und wuchs in Irland auf. Heute lebt sie in einem kleinen englischen Dorf, von dem man sagt, dass es dort spukt - mehr noch als an allen anderen Orten des Landes. In ihrem alten Haus aus dem 15. Jahrhundert schrieb F.E. Higgins ihre ersten Romane gruselig, bildermächtig und knisternd vor Spannung. Mit ihren atmosphärisch dichten und präzise recherchierten Erzählungen aus dem England des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts in der Tradition eines Edgar Allen Poe oder Charles Dickensen ist sie inzwischen international erfolgreich.
