Agent: Jill Marsal, Marsal Lyon Literary. Fans of Rosemary’s Baby will relish this. That Deck may have a hidden agenda adds to the tension. The true story of a disappearance of a young boy on his first day at kindergarten in 1944 is the inspiration for this book which is set in the late 1960s in a strange small town in Minnesota called Lilydale where the inhabitants seem pretty creepy to the young pregnant journalist Joan who is relocating there with her boyfriend Deck. Lourey ratchets up the suspense as Joan becomes aware of a sinister conspiracy that poses a threat to her and her unborn child. She makes little headway with the locals she interviews, who seem to be united in preventing her from discovering what really happened to Paulie. After a stranger appears in town claiming to be Paulie Aandeg, who as a boy 24 years earlier never returned home after his first day in kindergarten, Joan covers the story. Joan quickly discovers Lilydale is brimming with secrets. Deck’s father also secures Joan a position on the town’s newspaper, since he’s a friend of the editor. In 1968, pregnant journalist Joan Harken, the narrator of this chilling mystery from Lourey ( Unspeakable Things), is persuaded by her fiancé, Deck Schmidt, to move from Minneapolis to Lilydale, Minn., where Deck’s father is the mayor and, as head of the county draft board, can get Deck a deferment to avoid military service in Vietnam.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |