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Day Shift

A Novel of Midnight, Texas
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
400 Seiten
Englisch
Penguin USerschienen am29.03.2016
DON'T MISS SEASON 2 OFÿMIDNIGHT, TEXAS, THE NBC PRIMETIME TELEVISION SERIES BASED ON THEÿBESTSELLING NOVELS!

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels returns to the one-stoplight town of Midnight, Texas, a place where no one is quite what they seem
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There is no such thing as bad publicity, except in Midnight, where the residents like to keep to themselves. When psychic Manfred Bernardo finds himself embroiled in a scandal and hounded by the press after one of his regular clients dies during a reading, he turns to enigmatic, beautiful, and dangerous Olivia Charity for help. Somehow he knows that the mysterious Olivia can get things back to normal. As normal as things get in Midnight...

Includes an excerpt of Night Shiftmehr
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KlappentextDON'T MISS SEASON 2 OFÿMIDNIGHT, TEXAS, THE NBC PRIMETIME TELEVISION SERIES BASED ON THEÿBESTSELLING NOVELS!

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels returns to the one-stoplight town of Midnight, Texas, a place where no one is quite what they seem
ÿ
There is no such thing as bad publicity, except in Midnight, where the residents like to keep to themselves. When psychic Manfred Bernardo finds himself embroiled in a scandal and hounded by the press after one of his regular clients dies during a reading, he turns to enigmatic, beautiful, and dangerous Olivia Charity for help. Somehow he knows that the mysterious Olivia can get things back to normal. As normal as things get in Midnight...

Includes an excerpt of Night Shift
ZusammenfassungThe no.1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels returns to the town from Midnight Crossroad with an all-new Serie tale...
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-425-26320-4
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2016
Erscheinungsdatum29.03.2016
Seiten400 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht213 g
Artikel-Nr.35501949
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GenreSF/Fantasy TB

Inhalt/Kritik

Leseprobe
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

It isn't the rumbling of the trucks that seizes Manfred Bernardo's attention; it is the silence that falls when their ignitions die. Big trucks often go through Midnight, slowing to stop for (or speeding up to beat) the traffic light at the intersection of the Davy highway and Witch Light Road. Since Manfred's rented house lies on Witch Light Road, he's grown used to the sound until it is simply background music. But the absence of that sound pierces his preoccupation. He's on his feet and opening the front door before he's aware of pushing back from his desk. He grabs a jacket from the rack by the door.

Glancing across the road, he sees his friend Fiji Cavanaugh come out into her front garden, which is at its bleakest in January. It's cold today, by Texas standards, but sunny. Her cat, Mr. Snuggly, a golden tabby, is at his current favorite sunning spot, the base of the pot where Fiji plans to try a gardenia. Even Mr. Snuggly is staring west.

Manfred exchanges a nod with Fiji, who is bundled in a quilted coat. He notes that today she has inexplicably arranged her hair in two dog-ears, like a six-year-old. Then he turns his attention back to the trucks. One is an equipment truck, and it's laden with building supplies: boards, bricks, electrician's wire, plumbing pipes, hardware. Two battered white vans have disgorged a clown-car number of small brown men, wearing hoodies they will surely discard as the day warms. Emerging from a Lexus, clearly in charge, is a tall white woman in tan slacks and a blue silk T-shirt. She's wearing a faux-fur vest. Her thick brown hair is gathered back into a sleek ponytail, and she wears silver earrings and a silver necklace. She also wears glasses, with big square tortoiseshell frames, and her lipstick is an aggressive red.

All these various vehicles, with their assortment of passengers, have converged around the defunct Río Roca Fría Hotel at the southwest corner of the intersection. As far as Manfred knows, it has been closed for decades. The work crews immediately start pulling the boards off the doors and windows and tossing the ancient plywood into a large skip that yet another truck has deposited on the cracked sidewalk. The workmen swarm into the dark interior of the hotel.

It reminds Manfred of a giant boot kicking a dormant anthill.

Within five minutes, Fiji has crossed the road to join him. Simultaneously, Bobo Winthrop saunters down the steps of his business and residence, Midnight Pawn, which is situated at the same intersection as the Río Roca Fría Hotel but catty-cornered to it. Manfred sees (with resignation) that Bobo is looking quietly handsome today, though he's wearing faded jeans and an ancient T-shirt with an equally ancient flannel shirt open over it. Manfred and Fiji stand with Bobo, and as they do, Manfred sees that west of the intersection, Teacher Reed has come out of Gas N Go; it's directly across the highway from the pawnshop on the east and the hotel on the south. His statuesque wife, Madonna, is standing on the sidewalk in front of the Home Cookin Restaurant with Grady, the baby, who's wrapped in a blanket. She's holding Grady with one arm, shading her eyes with the other. Across the street from Madonna, Joe Strong and Chuy Villegas have stepped out of the Antique Gallery and Nail Salon. Joe is like his name: muscular. He looks as though he may be forty. Chuy is shorter, his dark hair is thinning a bit, and his skin is the color of toast.

Even the Rev, in his rusty black suit, emerges from his white-painted chapel to cast an unreadable look at all the activity.

We're only missing Olivia and Lemuel, Manfred thinks. Of course, Lemuel cannot come out during the day, and Olivia is gone on one of her mysterious business trips.

After a few more minutes of watching and wondering, Joe Strong takes the initiative and strolls across Witch Light Road. He threads himehr
Kritik
Praise for Charlaine Harris and her Novels of Midnight, Texas

The Mark Twain of things that live under your bed Houston Press

[An] out-of-the-ordinary mystery. Publishers Weekly

Fun but creepy...A very quirky mystery that reveals more fascinating details about the varied denizens of this little town. Locus

A little magic, a little mystery, and a lot of imagination make for a story that is both fun and edgy. Kirkus Reviews

As intimate and deep as the Stackhouse novels. Library Journal

Move over Bon Temps, Midnight Texas has arrived. Fresh Fictionmehr

Autor

Charlaine Harris is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse and Midnight, Texas, fantasy/mystery series and the Aurora Teagarden, Harper Connelly, and Lily Bard mystery series. Her books have inspired HBO s True Blood, NBC s Midnight, Texas, and the Aurora Teagarden movies for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. She has lived in the South her entire life.