A Corpse's Nightmare
A Fever Devilin Novel
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
"Storytelling at its finest...beguiling!" -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) on The Drifter's Wheel
Fever Devilin is killed by an intruder. He doesn't stay dead - thanks to an emergency medical team - but he does slip into a months-long coma. When he comes out of it, there are two things he now knows: that he's been dreaming about the legendary Paris 20's café scene and that his would-be killer was after a blue tin box, containing a photo of what Fever believes to be an angel. As Fever struggles to recover, out there is a would-be killer who must be found while there's still time.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Near the start of DePoy's intriguing sixth Fever Devilin novel (after 2008's The Drifter's Wheel), the folklorist wakes up in a Georgia hospital, where he learns that he was shot by an unidentified intruder, died, was revived, and has been in a coma for three months. With no memory of these events and given to hallucinations of loud jazz combos playing nearby, Fever enlists his best friend, British-born professor Winton Andrews, to help him piece together disjointed dreams of 1920s Paris, his mother's previous hints about his family's past connection to jazz great Jelly Roll Morton, cryptic information from an eccentric New Orleans figure who doses Fever with questionable herbal tea, and the disturbing activities of a local branch of a wider white supremacist organization. Despite some repetition that may irk the reader, the unusual narrative technique that combines whodunit with more unconventional material from the unconscious provides a refreshing take on family history as mystery.
