Greylock

Gold Medal Winner, 2022 Global Book Awards.Chanticleer Book Award Winner, 2015, First Place. Best Book Award Finalist, 2017, by American Book Fest."A plot replete with all the wonderful trappings of a romance-laced mystery with unexpected twists and turns." U.S. Review of Books."A smart, entertaining supernatural thriller. Think Stephen King meets Raymond Chandler with a score by Tchaikovsky. Briskly paced, this novel was a genuine pleasure to read." David Corbett, best-selling author of The Mercy of the Night.Pianist Alexei Georg harbors a dark secret. He is haunted by a creature of darkness that relentlessly pursues him from Boston to Russia to Mt. Greylock. Whenever Alexei performs an old Russian sonata, a menacing presence appears in the audience, in the aisle, and on the stage with him. Is there a ghost inside Alexei's music?When Alexei's wife, Carole Anne, a prima ballerina is found murdered, Alexei becomes the prime suspect. Trapped in an unhappy marriage, broken by secrets and obsession, Alexei flees Boston to Russia. But Alexei cannot flee the supernatural powers living within his music.Alone on the summit of Mt. Greylock, Alexei escapes into an affair with the ravishing Lia Marrs. But the creature of darkness knows no bounds. Alexei must find a way to halt the dark force threatening his life or become a prisoner to its power."I've not seen anything like it since Hitchcock and du Maurier gave us The Birds. Greylock is a stunning masterpiece." Five stars, Veteran Book Reviewer Don Sloan.Paula Cappa is the recipient of the prestigious Eric Hoffer Book Award, and, the Silver Medal from Global Book Awards 2021 for her mystery Night Sea Journey. She received the Readers' Favorite International Bronze Medal for Supernatural Suspense, and a Gothic Readers Book Club Award Winner in Outstanding Fiction for her ghostly novel The Dazzling Darkness.Click the LOOK INSIDE feature on the book cover to sample the opening of Greylock. Stop by Paula Cappa's website and blog at paulacappa.wordpress.com .

a plot replete with all the wonderful trappings of a romance-laced mystery with unexpected twists and turns. Greylock has the potential of being earmarked as another award winner." RECOMMENDED by the U.S Review of Books.

"Cappa's latest is nothing less than a mind-boggling mystery ... always keeping an elusive edge to her characters' personas

Richard Thomas, author of Disintegration.

"Echoing notes of Phantom of the Opera, mixed with Raymond Chandler's Marlowe, and Peter Straub's Ghost Story, Greylock is a thrilling musical tragedy steeped in lore, mythology, and the madness of composition, leading to a crescendo of epic proportions. Paula Cappa is a gifted author, and this book will have you swooning in the aisles."

an intricate symphony of music, madness, and murder. If you're looking for an imaginative, sophisticated read, you've found it. Five stars."

"Tchaikovsky meets The Shining in Gothic Readers Award winner Paula Cappa's newest supernatural thriller

Elisabeth Zguta, author of Breaking Cursed Bonds.

"Greylock exposes the deep currents of the human compulsion for success. Bold characters with the loftiest of dreams, placed in bleak surroundings at the fringe of nature, lead the reader to jagged truths. Using classic Gothic style with modern twists, Paula Cappa merges old tales with nature's wonders and music."

David Corbett, award-winning author of The Mercy of the Night.

"Greylock is a smart, entertaining supernatural thriller. Think Stephen King meets Raymond Chandler with a score by Tchaikovsky. The author's passion for both the arts and the natural world shines through on every page. Briskly paced and yet lovingly detailed, this novel was a genuine pleasure to read."

Terry M. West, author of The Night Is Long and Cold and Deep.

"Paula Cappa's prose is highly engaging, and her words are elegant, rich, and purposeful. Her work always feels perfectly balanced and constructed. She is simply one of the best in the horror fiction business."

Nicholas Rossis, award-winning author of Pearseus.

"Rarely have I come across such an original and well-written story. A unique, expertly-written mix of genres that makes for a haunting book."

From the Inside Flap

Gold Medal, Global Book Awards, 2023, The Dazzling DarknessGold Medal, Global Book Awards, 2022, GreylockSilver Medal, Global Book Awards, 2021, Night Sea Journey, A Tale of the SupernaturalBest Book Award Finalist, American Book Fest, 2017, GreylockEric Hoffer Book Award Winner, 2015, Night Sea Journey, A Tale of the SupernaturalChanticleer Book Award Winner, 2015, GreylockBronze Medal Winner, Readers' Favorite International Book Award, 2014, The Dazzling DarknessGothic Readers Book Club Choice Award Winner, 2013, The Dazzling Darkness GREYLOCK COVER: Cover for Greylock is designed from a photograph by the late William Tague of Massachusetts, Berkshire Eagle photographer. Much of Mr. Tague's work was devoted to Mt. Greylock. He lived on a flank of Mt. Greylock and created mysterious and unforgettable portraits of the mountain. For more of his photography, see Images of America, Bill Tague's Berkshires by Tyler Resch.

About the Author

Paula Cappa is an award-winning novelist and short story author. Her novels include Greylock a Chanticleer Book Award Winner and an American Book Fest's Best Books Award Finalist. The Dazzling Darkness, Gothic Readers Book Club Award Winner for Outstanding Fiction, and, Readers' Favorite International Bronze Medal Award. Night Sea Journey, A Tale of the Supernatural, an Eric Hoffer Book Award Winner, 2015. Her novels are published in trade paperback by Crispin Books, Milwaukee WI. Her short fiction has appeared in Coffin Bell Literary Journal of Dark Literature, Dark Gothic Resurrected Magazine, Whistling Shade Literary Journal, SmokeLong Quarterly, Sirens Call Ezine, Every Day Fiction, Fiction365, Twilight Times Ezine, and in anthologies Journals of Horror: Found Fiction, Mystery Time, and Human Writes Literary Journal. Cappa is a freelance copy editor and writes a weekly blog, Reading Fiction at paulacappa.wordpress.com.

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