Pantheon
July 2015
On Sale: July 7, 2015
Featuring: Edmund Campion
290 pages ISBN: 0804169284 EAN: 9780804169288 Kindle: B00OEXJB5O Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
From a thrilling new voice in fiction comes a chilling and
deliciously dark novel about an idyllic Midwestern college
town that turns out to be a panorama of depravity and a
nexus of horror.
For years Normandy Falls has
been haunted by its strange history and the aggrieved
spirits said to roam its graveyards. Despite warnings,
Edmund Campion is determined to pursue an advanced degree
there. But Edmund soon learns he isn’t immune to the
impersonal trappings of fate: his girlfriend, Morgan Fey,
smashes his heart; his adviser, Professor Martin Kingsley,
crushes him with frivolous assignments; and his dead-end job
begins to take a toll on his physical and mental health. One
night he stumbles upon the body of Emily Ryan, an
unapologetic townie, drowned in her family pool. Was it
suicide or murder? In the days that follow, Emily’s husband,
Charlie, crippled by self-loathing and frozen with fear,
attempts to flee his disastrous life and sends their twin
daughters to stay with the Kingsleys. Possessed by an
unnamed, preternatural power, the twins know that the
professor seduced their mother and may have had a hand in
her fate. With their piercing stares, the girls fill Martin
with a remorse that he desperately tries to hide from his
wife. Elsewhere, a low-level criminal named the Gonk takes
over a remote cottage, complete with a burial ground and
moonshine still, and devises plans for both. Xavier
D’Avignon, the eccentric chef of a failing French
restaurant, supplies customers with a hallucinogenic
cocktail. And Colette Collins, an elderly local artist of
the surreal, attends a retrospective of her work that is
destined to set the whole town on fire.
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