Daniel Hecht
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In a radical departure from her urban life, Ann Turner buys a piece of remote Vermont land and sets up a tent home in deep forest. She's trying to escape an unending string of personal disasters in Boston; more, she desperately wants to leave behind a world she sees as increasingly defined by consumerism, hypocrisy, and division.As she writes in her journal, "There's got to be a more honest, less divided way to live." She soon learns she was mistaken...
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"Once a superstar investigative reporter, disgraced by misconduct, Conn returned to his Vermont hometown to put his life back together. Now, after ten years covering local news, he knows his community like nobody else. When he kicks a submerged object while swimming-something with the density and resilience of human flesh-he wonders if it's connected to an unsolved murder in a nearby town. Detective Marlene Selanski heads up the State Police investigation....
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Paul Skoglund, unemployed, handicapped with Tourette's syndrome, and battling his ex-wife for custody of his young son, accepts a needed job restoring his aunt's family home, but the destruction the house has suffered seems too great to have been caused by vandals, and Paul soon realizes something is dangerously wrong.
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Bert Marchetti, a friend and a San Francisco homicide inspector, has asked Cree Black to help investigate a human skeleton recently unearthed in the foundation of a Victorian home. When the bones are sent to UC Berkeley for analysis, the forensic anthropology team is intrigued. They call the skeleton 'Wolfman.' Cree decides to find out who the Wolfman was, what caused his obvious anatomical deformities, and how he ended up where he did.
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Tommy Keeday, a talented student at a boarding school for gifted Navajo teens, is suddenly seized by an illness with bizarre and frightening symptoms, his family believes he is possessed by a chindi, the hostile spirit of a dead ancestor. But Julieta McCarty, the principal of Oak Springs School, is unwilling to accept either a traditional Navajo explanation or a conventional medical diagnosis. In desperation, she calls on Seattle-based parapsychologist...