Peggy A. Wheeler

The Desert Raven (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Maggie Tall Bear Sloan, half Irish, half Yurok, and one-hundred percent gutsy, is a retired criminologist who shapeshifts into the Pukkekwerek, the Yurok nation's monster-killing raven. After she brings down a cannibalistic child murderer possessed by a Manitou, Maggie, and her lover, Jake Lubbock, a former sheriff, move from the mountains in Northern California to a desert town in southern California. Maggie and Jake settle into their new community; with one goal, an enjoyable retirement. She buys a pub, Jake writes a book, they both join the town's law enforcement reserves, spending Sundays with family.

All is well for Maggie and Jake until the local sheriff shows them photos of a dentist, his wife, and teenage son, roasted over separate fires on spits, their flesh cannibalized. The police dub the murderer, "The Aunt Lorrie's Salt Killer," because the murderer's calling card is a container of the salt balanced on the victims' corpses. Maggie suspects The Salt Killer may be The Chenoo, an ice-demon from Passamaquoddy and Micmac lore.

The sheriff calls on Maggie and Jake to lead a task force to investigate, and that's when things get strange. To complicate things, Sally, a ghost, and Maggie's closest friend, materializes to warn Maggie of an impending and unavoidable tragedy: someone close to Maggie will die.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dragon Moon Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781774000090
• Artikelnr.: 56955591

Autorenporträt

Peggy A. Wheeler is published under the names of Peggy A. Wheeler, Peggy Wheeler and Peggy Dembicer. Her non-fiction articles and poetry have appeared in a number of national magazines and anothologies. She has written for Llewellyn Worldwide. Most recently, she her short story Mama's Special Stew appears in WOMEN WRITING THE WEIRD II: Dreadful Daughters, by Dog Horn Press.

Her B.A. in English Literature is from U.C.L.A. Her M.A. in English with a Creative Writing emphasis is from California State University at Northridge. While attending U.C.L.A., Peggy was one of only twelve students (and the only undergraduate) chosen to study with Robert Pinsky, former Poet Laureate of the United States. She won first prize awards for two of her poems from an Evergreen Women's Press nationwide poetry contest. Her poetry received honorable mentions from the judges of a Los Angeles Poetry Festival and The Academy of American Poets. Peggy's poem Du Fu was nominated for a Rhysling award for Best Science Fiction Poem. Her manuscript for THE RAVEN'S DAUGHTER was a top ten finalist in the 2014 CCC Great Novel contest.