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One Crooked Thing

by Timothy Roderick

A haunting tied to a buried secret

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A haunting tied to a buried secret

Set against the dark roads and shadowed interiors of Los Angeles, One Crooked Thing centers on Ren Larson as a murder investigation is followed by an increasingly intimate supernatural threat. Murmurs, mirrors, and the danger closing in on his young child turn the haunting into a domestic crisis as well as a mystery. The book places competing explanations side by side—Ren’s doctor attributes his experiences to war trauma, while his housekeeper identifies a malevolent spirit rooted in Caribbean folklore. Beneath both accounts lies the suggestion that the entity’s target is connected to a concealed moral wrongdoing.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adult horror readers interested in supernatural hauntings
  • Readers who enjoy horror linked to murder investigations and hidden guilt
  • Readers interested in folklore-inflected supernatural threats

Themes

HauntingSecret sinMurder investigationWar traumaCaribbean folklore

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Book overview

What you don't know can kill you.

Something sinister has followed Ren Larson home through the dark winding roads of Los Angeles. Since he began investigating a series of murders, it has made its presence known. It murmurs in shadowed hallways. It watches from mirrors and whispers to his six-year-old child. It waits. His doctor says he's got a case of war nerves. His housekeeper warns of a malevolent spirit, maybe only folklore from her Caribbean childhood. But no one can stop the foul thing, she says, until it devours the soul for which it hungers--a soul that has ripened with a secret sin.

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