Bøker av Jd Byrne

Ben Potter's life is a shambles. As a journalist he's hit rock bottom, writing dreck about monsters and ghouls to make ends meet after a big story blew up in his face. As a son he's a disappointment, unwilling to follow his father, grandfather, and great grandfather into the family business. As a father, he's mostly just not there. Now a new assignment could change all that. All he has to do is go from London to the hills of West Virginia to investigate the strangest of stories his great grandfather told. Did a sleazy politician really raise the dead to try and win an election? And if he did, what happened to the zombies? Could they still exist? Ben needs to find out, to solve the mystery and find a way to get his life back on track. But finding the answer only presents Ben with a whole new batch of problems. Does he use what he learns to put his life back on track? Or will he be compelled to do the right thing, even if it leaves his life a mess? The hardest part of a mystery is deciding what to do once you've solved it.

In 1518, a woman started dancing on the streets of Strasbourg and could not stop. No priests, physics or leaders could help as more and more people joined her, jaunting as their feet bled and their bodies broke. Centuries later the mystery endures, explained as mass hysteria, mob mentality but suspected to be something much more sinister. In this fourth collection of Utter Speculation, nine authors offer stories of witches and wishes, love and longing, of music and mastery and the deepest secrets of restless hearts."Real-life medieval madness and chaos that was utterly frightening becomes utterly fascinating in The Dancing Plague collection from Speculation Publishing. From Brother Frix's monastery infirmary horrors ("This Way Lies Madness"/Wenzel) to Frau Troffea's cockroach stomp ("Shake, Rattle and Roll"/Updike), this is recommended reading."- Chris Bauer, author of crime thrillers about Philadelphia including 2 STREET, (where the city's most sacred group of dancers, the Philly Mummers, also die in bunches) "I'm always tickled when I hear a new Speculation is imminent because I know I'm in for a ride through unfamiliar, if not unsettling, terrain. The Dancing Plague collection is no exception. Some stories horrify, others ignite the spark of introspection, but all make me eager to keep turning the page."- William J. Donahue, author of BURN, BEAUTIFUL SOUL and CRAWL ON YOUR BELLY ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE "LCW Allingham and her two cohorts have come up with another thematic anthology in their Collection of Utter Speculation series. The Dancing Plague relates to a contagious 16th Century malady in what is now France leading to the victims convulsively dancing in the streets. This clever collection offers nine original takes on the affliction from a variety of authors dealing with time travel to scientific investigation to a modern re-occurrence. Much fun."- Don Swaim, author of THE ASSASSINATION OF AMBROSE BIERCE: A LOVE STORY