The Lovely Beast by Js Cook
Jacob van Willingen arrives in a remote Romanian village aiming for a short visit. A member of the highly secretive Society for Psychical Research, Jacob has been charged with exterminating Caleb Donnithorn--but the society's intelligence about the reclusive nobleman is less than complete. As he studies his target, Van Willingen is drawn to Donnithorn, enthralled with the nobleman's alluring brides, three of society's most luminous geniuses gathered from the corners of Europe to create a fantastical machine: a resurrection engine that can capture a human soul at the moment of death. Caleb Donnithorn represents everything that is evil in the world, but there is more to him than is initially apparent. What he knows about van Willingen is a truth so shocking it will shake the young scholar's world to its very foundations. Cast out from his friends and his beloved Society of Psychical Research, Jacob van Willingen will jettison everything he holds dear to remain with one whose love commands the highest price of all.
Cook, J. S.: - J.S. Cook grew up surrounded by the wild North Atlantic Ocean, in a small fishing village on the coast of Newfoundland. An avid lover of both the sea and the outdoors, she was powerfully seduced by the lure of this rugged, untamed landscape. This love of her island heritage and its deeply Irish culture led her to create The Kildevil Cove Murder Mysteries series, police procedurals that feature career detective Deiniol Quirke and his partner, millionaire property developer Tadhg Heaney. Her interest in police procedurals was recently reignited by an opportunity to work with a police profiler from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, editing two forensic field manuals to be used by LA County law enforcement and as part of the curriculum at the California Institute of Criminal Investigation. She maintains an avid interest in forensics and often designs and conducts her own forensic experiments, including a body farm in her backyard. Reviewers have called her past work ...strong, solid detective fiction...with a depth and complexity of plot and characters.... When she isn't writing, J.S. Cook teaches communications and creative writing at the College of the North Atlantic, waits hand and foot on her spoilt-rotten dogter, Lola, and nurses an abiding love of a fine chardonnay.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781627988438 |
| ISBN 10 | 1627988432 |
| Title | The Lovely Beast |
| Author | Js Cook |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Dreamspinner Press |
| Year published | 2014-07-16 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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