Unraveling: A Novel by Karen Lord (Paperback)

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Fiction – Fantasy – Epic – Mystery amp; Detective – Woman Sleuths – FAiry Tales, Folklore, Legends amp; Mythology\nRELEASE DATE: 7\/9\/2024 (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER’S WAREHOUSE )\nThe search for a notorious serial killer takes a therapist on a nightmarish quest to an alternate world to find the sinister secret behind his crimes, in a dark fantasy inspired by Caribbean urban myth, from the award-winning author of The Blue, Beautiful World.\nDr. Miranda Ecuovo works as a forensic therapist, helping traumatized witnesses recover their memories so that they can testify about the crimes they observed. Her most famous case resulted in the conviction of the serial killer Walther Gray, a pathologists assistant known as the Butcher of the City.\nOne day Miranda is seized by Chance, one of the spirits known as the Undying, and transported to a fantastical dreamlike world. There she is greeted by an Angel and presented with an unusual mission: Help catch the rogue Undying who was the true mastermind behind the Butchers crimes.\nNow Miranda and Chance must stop the murderer before he kills again. Together they will race through a surreal otherworld of magical labyrinths and wondrous spiritsbut also into the maze of Mirandas own memories when they retrace her original investigation.\nAs Miranda draws closer to the truth, she finds herself confronted by even bigger questions than the killers identity. How could his victims deaths be forgotten so easily? And what can she do to create a world where the vulnerable can be safe and have their lives treated as precious?\nAUTHOR BIO:\nBarbadian writerDr. Karen Lordis the author ofRedemption in Indigo, which won the William L. Crawford Award and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Her other works include the science fiction novelsThe Best of All Possible WorldsandThe Galaxy Game, and the crime-fantasy novelUnraveling. She edited the anthologyNew Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean.\n\”The natural heiress to Octavia Butler and Ursula Le Guin.\”–Financial Times\n\”Karen Lord’s new novel,Unraveling, mixes up a witches’ brew of folklore, archetype, and social critique and serves it in a mug of serial-killer whodunit.\”–Los Angeles Review of Books