Parable of the Crinoline
Paperback
Publisher Price: $18.95
ISBN13: 9781636926308
Publisher: Newman Springs
Published: Nov 13 2024
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A psychiatrist working at the University of Wisconsin is sent to Italy with his assistant to aid local priests with deciphering the possessed and the ill. They also search for a missing friend during their stay in none other than the sumptuous La Terra Ideale hotel in Tuscany. Dark secrets are revealed about the hotel and the residents discover a killer amongst them. The psychiatrist soon finds out a guilt-ridden past has caught up to him and he is next on the killer's list. In addition, the killer is linked to an abominable drug known to cause recipients extreme psychological disorders and murderous instincts. The past reveals heated trysts, betrayal, and malpractice. In this world laden with desire, affairs, grief, and envy - vices turn into regret and good intentions turn into malicious deeds. When all said and done, the psychiatrist, the assistant, and a priest try to survive the killer on the loose as they find a way to prevent the distribution of this deadly drug and stop the demons that haunt La Terra Ideale once and for all.
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