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The Overlook Press
April 2018
On Sale: April 17, 2018
320 pages
ISBN: 1468315870
EAN: 9781468315875
Kindle: B07938VLGT
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Horror
For fans of Cold Mountain and The
Alienist, the stunning debut novel of historical
suspense about a charismatic conman haunted—perhaps
literally—by a ghost from his past
Boston,
1870. Photographer Edward Moody runs a booming business
capturing the images of the spirits of the departed in his
portraits. He lures grieving widows and mourning mothers
into his studio with promises of catching the ghosts of
their deceased loved ones with his camera. Despite the
whispers around town that Moody is a fraud of the basest
kind, no one has been able to expose him, and word of his
gift has spread, earning him money, fame, and a growing
list
of illustrious clients.
One day, while developing
the
negative from a sitting to capture the spirit of the young
son of an abolitionist senator, Moody is shocked to see a
different spectral figure develop before his eyes. Instead
of the staged image of the boy he was expecting, the camera
has seemingly captured the spirit of a beautiful young
woman. Is it possible that the spirit photographer caught a
real ghost? When Moody recognizes the woman in the
photograph as the daughter of an escaped slave he knew long
ago, he is compelled to travel from Boston to the Louisiana
bayous to resolve their unfinished business—and perhaps
save
his soul. But more than one person is out to stop him . .
.
With dramatic twists and redolent of the mood of
the Southern Gothic, The Spirit Photographer
conjures the Reconstruction era South, replete with
fugitive
hunters, voodoo healers, and other dangers lurking in the
swamp. Jon Michael Varese’s deftly plotted first novel is
an
intense tale of death and betrayal that will thrill readers
as they unravel the dreadful mystery behind the spirit in
the photograph and what ultimately became of her.
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