Two Cree Black Mysteries by Daniel Hecht, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature the first two "Cree Black" mysteries by Daniel Hecht, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Bloomsbury.

The ebook format of these titles were priced at $2.99 each from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (09/01/2013 at 3:00 PM ET). Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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City of Masks by Daniel Hecht
A Cree Black Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Bloomsbury

Parapsychologist Cree Black is the founder of a small, nonprofit paranormal research group based in Seattle. Using scientific technologies, historical research, and psychology, Cree and her colleagues investigate claims of ghosts and other paranormal phenomena and try to help the living cope with troubling and inexplicable experiences. Cree herself is a natural empath — one who resonates so strongly with others that she is able to experience their haunts and fears.

Called to New Orleans to investigate a supposed haunting at the 150-year old Beauforte House, Cree's foremost challenge is to accommodate the psychological fragility of Lila Beauforte Warren, who claims to have witnessed terrifying phenomena at the house where she spent her childhood. Is Lila suffering from a neurological or psychiatric disorder, as her family believes, or has she witnessed verifiable paranormal activity?

To find out, Cree must enter her state of mind, spend long hours in the dim rooms of the old house, and unearth secrets from the Beauforte family's hidden past. She soon finds she cannot help Lila unless she solves her own hauntings — deals with her own memories, faces her grief over her husband's death, and confronts her reluctance to embrace normal life. In challenging the ghosts of Beauforte house and taking Lila's problems as her own, she has placed her own survival on the line.

    

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Land of Echoes by Daniel Hecht
A Cree Black Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: Bloomsbury

Parapsychologist Cree Black is called to investigate a fascinating case unfolding in the vast high desert of New Mexico. When Tommy Keeday, a student at a boarding school for gifted Navajo teens, is suddenly seized by a frightening and violent illness, his family believes he is possessed by the hostile spirit of a dead ancestor. In desperation, principal Julieta McCarty calls on Psi Research Associates of Seattle for help.

Is Tommy Keeday just a sensitive teenager, seeking attention by acting out bizarre symptoms, or is he suffering from an exotic brain disorder? Or is there truth in the Navajo legends of witches, Skinwalkers, and malevolent ghosts? As the terrifying symptoms worsen and Tommy's resistance wanes, it becomes clear that Cree and her colleagues are in a race against time. Their investigation takes them back to Julieta McCarty's buried past and to crucial moments in the history of the Navajo people, and pits them against present-day mining interests with secrets they'll kill to keep hidden.

    

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