A Life of Death

I'm a litte confused to as to the comments below. I thought that was for readers to comment but it looks like a book query.

It is for readers to comment. I have the first few chapters of each of my novels on authonomy. I have since self-published them in their entirety on Amazon and most other ebook distributers. Some book reviewers and fans of the novels have chosen to comment on my pages here in addition to Goodreads, Shelfari, B&N, Amazon, etc...

I'm a litte confused to as to the comments below. I thought that was for readers to comment but it looks like a book query.

Alex Drummond has enough to deal with, really. His father was killed by a drunk driver a few years ago; his mother got remarried and moved them in with her new husband, who is a vicious alcoholic and beats Alex frequently to within an inch of his life; Alex’s step-brother, Frank, is a layabout who also beats on him, and his two step-sisters are an annoyance to him; and he’s an outsider at school, small and picked on by the larger kids. Now he’s developed an alarming tendency – when he touches things that were somehow touching a person when they were murdered, he falls into a vision and relives their death. And the people whose deaths he is reliving expect him to do something about it.

Partly a paranormal suspense book, partly a coming-of-age story, and even including a little bit of romance, “A Life of Death” is a completely amazing story! I won’t lie to you, it is often very intense – the tension evinced by this book is amazingly well-done and I often felt my heart racing from the extremity of emotions that it raised. It is tightly plotted and suspenseful; the characters are well-developed and realistic – the whole thing just came to life in my mind while I was reading it, and the sudden silence whenever I would look up showed me just how much it filled my mind while I was reading it.

The story is bracketed interestingly – the very beginning and very end are Alex as an older man, a police detective, helping his son with a project for school. The story itself is the tale he tells the boy. I thought this was a neat way to open and close the story and it left me with hopes that we might expect a series of Alex Drummond mystery novels in the future. I would certainly buy them!

Fans of paranormal mystery and suspense stories should enjoy this book. Definitely give it a read as soon as you can!

Backed A Life of Death. Can't resist paranormal tales. My friends CC Brown authors of Dark Side recommend your story so thought I would give it a try. Read, liked, star rated, and backed. Hope you will give their book a try.
Kat51

Good horror isn’t rubber monsters. It is an attempt (like Slaughter House Five and the fire bombing of Dresden) to discuss something so big and so horrifying that we don’t know where to begin.
The Shining was King’s fear of becoming his alcoholic father. Dream Catcher was Cancer. Imagica was Barker telling his father (and fans) he was gay.
Horror is primal, filled with symbols we can’t elucidate. It is the knowledge that some things cannot be suppressed, not matter how deep we try to bury them.
I think you have a great start on that here. It progresses well, and at an appropriate age level so far.
Most of my comments (emailed) were “noise removal” to streamline the delivery.

Scott Rhine (Foundation for the Lost)