Lena: 3 (Florida Folk Magic Stories) - Softcover

Campbell, Malcolm R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0997951761 ISBN 13: 9780997951769

Verlag: Thomas-Jacob Publishing, LLC, 2018

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Páginas:152Géneros:12:FA:Modern&contemporaryfiction(postc1945)12:FM:FantasySinopsis:WhenpolicechiefAltonGravelyandOfficerCarothersescalatethefeudbetween&ldquo,Torreya,sfinest&rdquo,andconjurewomanEulalieJenkinsbyrunningherofftheroadintoanorthFloridaswampalongwayfromtown,theborrowedpickuptruckissalvagedbutEulalieismissingandpresumeddead.HercatLenasurvives.Lenacouldprovideanaccurateaccountofthecrime&mdash,thetankertruck,thedeadmaninthetrunkofthesquadcar,andthefire&mdash,butthecountysheriffisunlikelytointerviewapet.Lenadoesn,tthinkEulalieisdead,buttheconjurewoman,sfamilyandfriendsdon,tbelieveher.Eulalie,sdaughterAelaidewantstostirthingsup.Thechurchdeaconwantseveryonetostayoutofsight

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When police chief Alton Gravely and Officer Carothers escalate the feud between “Torreya’s finest” and conjure woman Eulalie Jenkins by running her off the road into a north Florida swamp a long way from town, the borrowed pickup truck is salvaged but Eulalie is missing and presumed dead. Her cat Lena survives. Lena could provide an accurate account of the crime—the tanker truck, the dead man in the trunk of the squad car, and the fire—but the county sheriff is unlikely to interview a pet. Lena doesn’t think Eulalie is dead, but the conjure woman’s family and friends don’t believe her.

Eulalie’s daughter Aelaide wants to stir things up. The church deacon wants everyone to stay out of sight: he fears reprisals since it’s hard to tell the difference between the police, city fathers, and the KKK. Lena teaches Adelaide rudimentary spell work—how to hex the chief of police and how to read the possum bones to find Eulalie’s fiancé Willie Tate who’s working down on the coast and tell him to come home. There’s talk of an eye witness, but either Adelaide made that up to worry the police or s/he is too scared to come forward.

Then the feared Black Robes of the Klan attack the first responder who believes the wreck might have been staged and Lena is the only one who can help him try to fight them off. After that, all hope is gone because if Eulalie is alive and if she finds her way back to Torreya, there are plenty of people waiting to kill her and make sure she stays dead.

Biografía del autor:

Malcolm R. Campbell is the author of six novels, including one comedy/satire and six within the contemporary fantasy and magical realism genres. His short stories include the paranormal "Emily's Stories," "Cora's Crossing," "Moonlight and Ghosts," and "The Lady of the Blue Hour." A three-story collection of folk tales, The Land Between the Rivers, is set in the Florida Panhandle not far from the settings used in his Florida Folk Magic Stories series. His work has appeared in The Lascaux Prize 2014 Anthology, Spirits of St. Louis: Missouri Ghost Stories Anthology, "Quail Bell Magazine," "A View inside Glacier National Park: 100 years, 100 Stories," "Future Earth Magazine," "The Smoking Poet Magazine," "Nonprofit World Magazine," "Nostalgia Magazine," and "Living Jackson Magazine." Campbell lives on a north Georgia farm with his wife and three cats. He grew up in the Florida Panhandle where Boy Scout camping trips, family day trips and dozens of hours spent driving his smoking 1954 Chevrolet from the Georgia border to the Gulf coast introduced him to every river, swamp, sink hole, beach, and all-night diner within an 11,000 square mile area often called "the other Florida" and "the forgotten coast." Florida's Tate's Hell Forest, longleaf pine forests, Apalachicola River, Garden of Eden trail, small towns, and dusty unpaved roads were a perfect place for growing up and for telling his Florida Folk Magic Stories.

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• Verlag: Thomas-Jacob Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0997951761
• ISBN 13: 9780997951769
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 150