Daniel Hecht Libri

Paul Skoglund è il protagonista del romanzo d'esordio di Daniel Hecht, ex-chitarrista di discreto successo riconvertito alla letteratura. Paul è affetto dalla sindrome di Tourette, un disturbo neurologico che si manifesta con gesti inconsulti e coprolalia (impulso irrefrenabile ad utilizzare un linguaggio osceno); questo ha condizionato tutta la sua vita creandogli grosse difficoltà nei rapporti interpersonali ed anche solo a mantenere un lavoro stabile. La sua condizione di disoccupato lo costringe ad accettare il lavoro offertogli da una zia che non vede da decenni: restaurare la vecchia casa nei boschi del Vermont seriamente danneggiata dai ripetuti attacchi di gruppi di vandali. I danni però sono troppo seri per esser stati causati da una banda di ragazzini, in quella casa regna un'atmosfera minacciosa, quale segreto nasconde? Proprio in quel periodo svariati ragazzi del luogo sono scomparsi senza che la polizia sia venuta a capo di nulla; uno solo di loro è stato ritrovato, morto, apparentemente ucciso da un pirata della strada, ma la sola persona che forse potrebbe saperne qualcosa è la sorella schizofrenica con la quale non c'è verso di fare un discorso coerente. Man mano che il lavoro avanza tra le rovine la distruzione sistematica avvenuta in quella casa appare sempre più sovraumana...

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In the end, it is people, not places, that are haunted. Tommy Keeday is a gifted student at a boarding school for Navajo teens in western New Mexico. When he suddenly falls ill with bizarre symptoms, his family believes he is possessed by a chindi, the spirit of a dead ancestor. However, Julieta McCarty, the school's principal, rejects both traditional Navajo beliefs and conventional medical explanations. In a bid for answers, she reaches out to Cree Black, a Seattle-based parapsychologist. Cree's background in clinical psychology and paranormal investigation offers no preparation for the daunting task of helping Tommy, who appears to be caught in a struggle between two spirits. Is he merely a troubled teenager, suffering from a rare brain disorder, or is there truth in the Navajo legends of witches and malevolent ghosts? As Cree and her team delve deeper, they uncover secrets from Tommy's past and those around him, revealing unresolved longings and regrets that shape his fate. This novel combines in-depth research with personal experience, presenting a thrilling supernatural mystery, a passionate love story, and a thoughtful exploration of modern Navajo culture and identity.

A spine-tingling psychological thriller from the bestselling author of PUPPETS Seattle-based Lucretia (Cree) Black is a parapsychologist: a professional ghost-hunter. Her company, Psi Research Associates, takes a scientific approach to investigating hauntings, applying in-depth historical research, psychological analysis and empathic techniques. Hired by Ronald Beauforte, a most reluctant client, to investigate the alleged haunting of his ancestral New Orleans home and save the sanity of his tormented sister Lila, Cree finds herself having to face up to her own haunted past. As she gets closer to the truth and the proverbial bones in the closet of the prestigious Beauforte family come crashing down around her, Cree must struggle to keep her own ghosts at bay.

A stunning post-millennial thriller from the author of PUPPETS. Genius husband-and-wife team Ryan and Jessamine McCloud are founders of Genesis, an unorthodox problem-solving think tank. Commissioned by a billionaire corporate chief to study the causes of the rising tide of global violence and social unrest, they begin to fear that a kind of disease is behind it all. They christen this the Babel Effect. Could there be a biomedical explanation for a kind of global insanity? Or is something else at the root of the problem? The investigation is brutally interrupted when Jessamine is kidnapped, and in the face of opposition from sinister and powerful organisations, Ryan McCloud grows increasingly desperate to find a way of halting the contagion of the Babel Effect, before it's too late for his family - before it's too late for mankind.

Als een wetenschappersechtpaar onderzoek doet naar de oorzaken van criminaliteit, komen zij beiden in gevaar.

Op een school voor getalenteerde Navajo kinderen lijdt een vijftienjarige leerling aan bizarre aanvallen zonder dat daarvoor een lichamelijke of psychologische verklaring is; de hulp van Cree Black, parapsychologe in Seattle, wordt ingeroepen.

Wanneer een jong stel het verwoeste landhuis van een tante restaureert, ontdekken zij dat hierbij bovenmenselijke krachten zijn gebruikt en dat er in de omgeving enkele moorden zijn gepleegd.