Confound It
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- ¥540
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- ¥540
発行者による作品情報
While hosting out-of-town guests at her Georgia home, Dreamwalker Baxley Powell is called upon to help investigate a suspicious fire. One of her guests, close friend and fellow dreamwalker Deputy Sam Mayes, accompanies her to the scene.
A meth cook is dead, and when Baxley visits her beyond the Veil of Life, she determines that the woman was murdered. Baxley pities Mandy Patterson, a single mother with aspirations for her teenage son Doodle. Unconcerned about the death of a criminal, the authorities pursue the drug-supply chain angle. Baxley worries about Doodle and vows to find out who killed his mother.
As the case grows more baffling, Baxley struggles against her attraction to Sam. Although her husband is missing and declared dead, she does not feel free to love again until she is sure of his fate.
Two suspects have the strongest motive, but Baxley has reason to believe they are pawns in a deeper game. And unless she can stop them, the world will never be the same.
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In Toussaint's middling fifth Dream-walker novel (after 2017's Dadgummit), Sheriff Wayne Thompson of Georgia's Sinclair County calls early one morning on the services of Baxley Powell, a dreamwalker who's still learning to use her special powers, which include the ability to enter the realm of the dead. When Wayne arrives at Baxley's house to pick her up, he's surprised to see Deputy Sam Mayes, a fellow dreamwalker who spent the night with her. Happily, the two men hit it off, and Wayne enlists Sam's help on the case the death of Mandy Patterson in a fire in her meth-lab home. At the possible crime scene, Baxley succeeds in contacting Mandy's spirit and learns that Mandy was murdered, but not who killed her. Among the many suspects are Mandy's business partner and a scruffy neighbor. Meanwhile, Baxley must contend with Burnell Escoe, who's leading the case for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and the dual romantic attentions of Wayne and Sam. This one's strictly for fans of paranormal romantic suspense.
