Day Shift: A Novel of Midnight, Texas

Zusatztext Praise for Charlaine Harris and her Novels of Midnight! Texas “The Mark Twain of things that live under your bed”— Houston Press “[An] out-of-the-ordinary mystery.”— Publishers Weekly “Fun but creepy...A very quirky mystery that reveals more fascinating details about the varied denizens of this little town.”— Locus “A little magic! a little mystery! and a lot of imagination make for a story that is both fun and edgy.”— Kirkus Reviews “As intimate and deep as the Stackhouse novels.”— Library Journal “Move over Bon Temps! Midnight Texas has arrived.”—Fresh Fiction Informationen zum Autor Charlaine Harris Klappentext DON'T MISS SEASON 2 OF MIDNIGHT, TEXAS, THE NBC PRIMETIME TELEVISION SERIES BASED ON THE BESTSELLING NOVELS! The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels returns to the one-stoplight town of Midnight, Texas, a place where no one is quite what they seem… There is no such thing as bad publicity, except in Midnight, where the residents like to keep to themselves. When psychic Manfred Bernardo finds himself embroiled in a scandal and hounded by the press after one of his regular clients dies during a reading, he turns to enigmatic, beautiful, and dangerous Olivia Charity for help. Somehow he knows that the mysterious Olivia can get things back to normal. As normal as things get in Midnight... Includes an excerpt of Night Shift Prologue It isn’t the rumbling of the trucks that seizes Manfred Bernardo’s attention; it is the silence that falls when their ignitions die. Big trucks often go through Midnight, slowing to stop for (or speeding up to beat) the traffic light at the intersection of the Davy highway and Witch Light Road. Since Manfred’s rented house lies on Witch Light Road, he’s grown used to the sound until it is simply background music. But the absence of that sound pierces his preoccupation. He’s on his feet and opening the front door before he’s aware of pushing back from his desk. He grabs a jacket from the rack by the door. Glancing across the road, he sees his friend Fiji Cavanaugh come out into her front garden, which is at its bleakest in January. It’s cold today, by Texas standards, but sunny. Her cat, Mr. Snuggly, a golden tabby, is at his current favorite sunning spot, the base of the pot where Fiji plans to try a gardenia. Even Mr. Snuggly is staring west. Manfred exchanges a nod with Fiji, who is bundled in a quilted coat. He notes that today she has inexplicably arranged her hair in two dog-ears, like a six-year-old. Then he turns his attention back to the trucks. One is an equipment truck, and it’s laden with building supplies: boards, bricks, electrician’s wire, plumbing pipes, hardware. Two battered white vans have disgorged a clown-car number of small brown men, wearing hoodies they will surely discard as the day warms. Emerging from a Lexus, clearly in charge, is a tall white woman in tan slacks and a blue silk T-shirt. She’s wearing a faux-fur vest. Her thick brown hair is gathered back into a sleek ponytail, and she wears silver earrings and a silver necklace. She also wears glasses, with big square tortoiseshell frames, and her lipstick is an aggressive red. All these various vehicles, with all their assortment of passengers, have converged around the defunct Roca Fría Hotel at the southwest corner of the intersection. As far as Manfred knows, it has been closed for decades. The work crews immediately start pulling the boards off the doors and windows and tossing the ancient plywood into a large skip that yet another truck has deposited on the cracked sidewalk. The workmen swarm into the dark interior of the hotel. It reminds Manfred of a giant boot kicking a dormant anthill. Within five minutes, Fiji has crossed the road to join him. Simultaneously, Bobo Wint...

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Praise for Charlaine Harris and her Novels of Midnight, Texas

The Mark Twain of things that live under your bed Houston Press

[An] out-of-the-ordinary mystery. Publishers Weekly

Fun but creepy...A very quirky mystery that reveals more fascinating details about the varied denizens of this little town. Locus

A little magic, a little mystery, and a lot of imagination make for a story that is both fun and edgy. Kirkus Reviews

As intimate and deep as the Stackhouse novels. Library Journal

Move over Bon Temps, Midnight Texas has arrived. Fresh Fiction

Product details

• Authors: Charlaine Harris
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780425263204
• ISBN: 978-0-425-26320-4
• No. of pages: 386
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 191 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Ace Books; Midnight, Texas; A Novel of Midnight, Texas; Midnight, Texas; A Novel of Midnight, Texas; Novel of Midnight, Texas
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy