Devils in Dark Houses

The new millennium is getting downright bizarre. From high tech games of sabotage to vigilante murder and ghosts who may or may not have their own dark agendas, Detectives Shirdon and Martinez must put their 20th century street smarts to work on four 21st century cases in which nothing is what it seems, and every answer reveals more questions. Devils in Dark Houses features 4 connected novellas, each a case featuring a pair of old school cops in the Pacific Northwest. Case 1: The Eye That Blinds As their supposed “real” lives spiral further out of control, three college friends retreat into the one place they still reign—the online kingdom of fantasy and masquerade. After a seemingly random accident puts Shirdon and Martinez on their trail, the trio’s tangled web of lies threatens to unravel… Case 2: Each Castle Its King Cal and Rachel Goodman sink their savings and their hopes in a fixer-upper the locals call “Blood House.” But their dream turns into a nightmare as they discover that their marriage is as cracked and crumbling as Blood House—and hiding just as many sinister secrets … Case 3: Nostri Sixteen-year-old Emma Kaster meets a charismatic street kid named Senz with an obsession for the Roman philosopher Seneca. What starts out as a series of pranks soon turns deadly as Emma and Senz confront the ultimate revolutionary question—are you willing to die for your beliefs? And just as important, are you willing to kill for them? Case 4: Devils in Dark Houses Shirdon and Martinez are on the case of a charismatic, controversial homicide detective whose mysterious disappearance eleven years ago comes back to life in the form of a mentally ill man calling himself the Hound. As the two detectives try to unravel fact from fantasy and truth from lies, the past and present collide in an explosive show-down that will test the detectives’ deepest beliefs about the world they live in…

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