A Texas map marked with three red dots like drops of blood. A serial killer who claims to have dementia. A mysterious young woman who wants answers. What could go wrong? "Fast and furious . . . You'll never see what's coming."--The Washington Post Years ago, her sister Rachel vanished. Now she is almost certain the man who took Rachel sits in the passenger seat beside her. He claims to have dementia and no memory of murdering girls across Texas in a string of places where he shot eerie pictures. To find the truth, she proposes a dangerous idea: a ten-day road trip with a possible serial killer to examine cold cases linked to his haunting photographs. Is he a liar or a broken old man? Is he a pathological con artist--or is she? You won't see the final, terrifying twist spinning your way until the very last mile. Praise for Paper Ghosts "A rich, hybrid work . . . a murder mystery, a road novel, a pair of psychological case studies and a meditation on photography."--The Sunday Times (U.K.), Thriller of the Month "[An] artful and elegiac psychological thriller . . . riveting."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[Paper Ghosts] elevates the often tawdry genre of the serial killer novel to a work of art."--Sunday Express (UK) "Texas has yet again bred a major American noir writer."--D Magazine "[Heaberlin has] developed a distinctive literary voice, one that is on full display in Paper Ghosts."--Houston Chronicle "Entertainingly unnerving."--The Dallas Morning News "Strong characterisation, haunting images, a wonderful sense of place, and some dark comedy make this travelogue-cum-psychological thriller well worth the read."--The Guardian
Carl Louis Feldman is an old man who once took photographs.
And what are these paper ghosts? They could be the classic novels Luke surrounds himself with in hopes of streamlining his artistic intake, an effort to rid his world of mundane claptrap.
The unputdownable thriller from the bestselling author of Black-Eyed Susans.
She had this special birthday calendar on the wall behind her desk. When your day had a star on it, you got to come up and pick a prize out of a cardboard box in her desk, and your parents could bring cookies or cupcakes, and everyone ...
At once hilarious and incredibly moving, Giving Up the Ghost is a memoir of lost love and second chances, and a ghost story like no other.
"Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools." That's how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside.
Rhyming text and die-cut pages present a ghost at the window, a ghost in the water tap, and ghosts everywhere you look.
This book is part of Mecha Panda Publishing's Chapbooks for Charity series with all proceeds being donated to support a local cause.
Paper Ghosts
“You don't know if he was white, black, or anything?” “He smelled like grease . . . I don't know if he was black. He had kind of a black accent,” she added. “That's very vague. I wouldn't be able to tell. My main concern is my children.