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A Field of Darkness

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A Field of Darkness
by Cornelia Read
Mysterious Press 2006

At turns vicious, comic, and provocative, the author’s first novel is told in one of the most seductive new voices we’ve ever read! Madeline Dare is a reporter in Syracuse, NY. She’s old money (so old it’s all gone) living in the working-class world with her blue-collar inventor husband and his family. When her still-wealthy cousin is implicated in the unsolved murders of two young women 20 years in the past, Dare sets out to clear his name. What first caught our attention was a sentence on the opening page, which reads: “Like maybe it was one long sly Dada-surrealist wink from the universe, a warning I should have been hip enough to catch.” EDGAR NOMINEE - Best First SIGNED $32.95

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