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    The Ray
    The Ray
    The Ray
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    The Ray

    By Jack Buckeridge

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    It was a dark day for Marisa Larkin when she heard her mother’s voice. Not that she didn’t love her mother, of course she did, but Chloe Larkin had died six years before; which meant Marisa had lived six years without listening to her, without seeing her, without sharing the day with her! But then, suddenly and surprisingly she was back, along with Uncle Ralph and an old neighbor from Squirrel Hill. The three of them together in her head: chatting, arguing, screaming; stamping the turf of her mind as their own! Was it a bad dream, or far worse than that, a real nightmare?

    On another dark day, a year and a half before and thousands of miles from Pittsburgh, a Mexican walks into a shop and has his face tattooed before he kidnaps the first of the eleven women he will take back to an oven in a disused ironworks that is now part of a municipal park in Monterrey. Marisa will be the eleventh of those women on a trip she makes to Mexico after her first psychotic episode.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJack Buckeridge
    Release dateJul 12, 2016
    ISBN9781310658051
    The Ray
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    Jack Buckeridge

    Jack Buckeridge is an Australian writer and author of the suspense novel The Ray set in Mexico and a thriller The Fear of the Dance set in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Buckeridge is a Spanish-English literary translator, having translated among other novels, The English Photographer and The Last Game.His short fiction has been published in Dublin Quarterly Review, Rose and Thorn and Tertulia magazines to name a few.

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