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Reviews of Eternity
Meet Zack
Tully; a hotshot homicide detective with a sixth sense specializing in tracking
down serial killers that were too elusive to be caught. The fiendish "Backdoor
Man", the one case Tully is unable to crack becomes his obsession and when the
Backdoor Man brutally murders Tully's wife and son it is nearly his ruin.
Broken,
burnt out and on the edge Tully accepts a job as sheriff in a small mountain
village named Eternity. Picturesque and panoramic, Eternity is anything but
peaceful. The plot thickens. Tully soon learns that the office of sheriff is
indeed dangerous, the last few men to hold the post were murdered. It seems
Eternity has an extremely high murder rate, one out of proportion for its size.
But murder runs in cycles in Eternity - mass slayings and quiet spells. Tully
finds himself with very few leads and very little help as he chases a killer who
is imaginatively cruel, a skilled assassin who calls himself "Jack ".
The locals
are zany and eccentric. The strangest are the lifers who hold secret meetings,
run the town council and place bets on who will be next to die. The lifers are
more worried about attracting publicity to themselves and in preserving the
tourism to Icehouse Mountain than catching the killer. Icehouse Mountain is
California's answer to Stonehenge, a place of great mystery, power and energy.
Tully has his hands full as he races against time, to find the killer because
the killer knows Tully all too well. I don't want to give away too much, but it
is about energy and portals, and well... yes, eternity.
What
follows is a multi-layered plot that will keep you guessing until the end.
Eternity is never boring, banal or obvious. Only a pro could pull this off and
Thorne does. She has proved herself a force to be reckoned with. She writes with
slicing wit and sharp intelligence. Tamara Thorne is a weaver of tales and a
spinner of yarns. Damn fine ones.
There's
something funny going on in Eternity. The town is the kind of mountain resort we
all want to visit when we get away from it all. But there's something really
funny going on, and Tamara Thorne's going to tell you all about it.
Just sit
back and let her guide you to the local stone circle, a mini-Stonehenge said to
possess supernatural powers. Feel light-headed? You're not alone. The circle
makes people dizzy, but does it also make them crazy? At first glance, yup!
There's a
local loony-bin, for one. There are UFO sightings and crystal-worshiping New
Agers, not to mention the tall-tale-tellin' townsfolk--like the mayor, who lets
on that he might be Ambrose Bierce. There's a dead ringer for Amelia Earhart.
And Elvis One and Elvis Two, one of whom just might not be an impersonator. What
about Jim Morrison, still sexy and apparently not dead?
But if the
stone circle promotes eccentricity, it's done a doozy of a job on a certain
someone--Eternity has had more murders in its history than you can shake an ice
pick at. Tourists and the last two sheriffs all fell victim to the same killer,
and the town council has covered up the crimes. Until now, for they've hired
ex-Los Angeles cop Zach Tully, and he won't stand for their weird shenanigans.
Or will he? By the time Tully arrives, the killer's added to the body count--and
he's started leaving notes signed as "Jacky." With all those famous dead and
missing people walking around, why not Jack the Ripper?
Tully has
no choice but to jump right in--besides the newest murders, it turns out that
Jacky is terrorizing Kate McPherson, the tour guide who found the last sheriff's
mutilated body, and her young son. Tully's escape from LA stems from his
inability to catch another serial killer, the Backdoor Man, who murdered his
wife and child. Tully needs to catch this killer now, if not for his own sanity,
then for Kate and Josh--who just might be the people he most needs in his life.
But in a
town filled with eccentrics and downright weirdos, who stands out as the killing
type? And why is each murder so different from the others? Is it really Jack the
Ripper, or an obsessed fan of the 19th Century murderer--and does it really
matter, as long as bodies continue to turn up? Tully must set aside his hatred
of the press and accept the help of a beautiful TV reporter, Arlene Rios, whose
theories make the straight-arrow lawman blush with embarrassment. Peopled with bizarre characters drawn in broad yet sympathetic strokes, Eternity zings with humor and horror as Jacky taunts Tully and his deputies with each new murder. Tamara Thorne ably invades "Twin Peaks" territory with a melting pot of eccentrics even David Lynch would be hard-pressed to top. Sheriff Tully's race against the madman is an engrossing, rollicking "Scream"-like romp that leaps out of the gate and never stops accelerating until it hits its climactic confrontation on a storm-swept mountaintop, within sight of the eerie stone circle. Equal parts chills and chuckles, gore and giggles, Eternity will have you gasping in all the right places--and staying up well past your bedtime-- thanks to its breakneck pace. It's another winner from Thorne (Moonfall, Haunted)
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