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Mean Spirit
Mean Spirit
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Mean Spirit

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Charlie Bretall comes to believe the malevolent spirit of a dead man possesses his daughter. He risks his sanity and his life to save her, only to encounter evidence that he is being manipulated by invisible forces he never suspected.

It is a race he is bound to lose without help. This first comes in the form of Detective Rosen, who deduces the truth from a simple limp.

But no one--Rosen, Charlie's daughter, the narrator, or Charlie himself--are who they seem to be, nor are their motives clear as murders accumulate. The story culminates in an abandoned garage, where Charlie is put on ‘trial’ by skeptics and believers...and by the dead.

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Release dateJun 18, 2011
ISBN9781386805618
Mean Spirit
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J. Clayton Rogers

I am the author of more than ten novels. I was born and raised in Virginia, where I currently reside. I was First-Place Winner of the Hollins Literary Festival a number of years ago. Among the judges were Thomas (Little Big Man) Berger and R.M.W. Dillard, poet and husband of the writer Annie Dillard.

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