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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 is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse and Midnight! Texas fantasy/mystery series and the Aurora Teagarden! Harper Connelly! and Lily Bard mystery series. Her books have inspired HBO´s True Blood ! NBC´s Midnight! Texas ! and the Aurora Teagarden movies for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. She has lived in the South her entire life. NIGHT SHIFT excerpt The first suicide arrives one October night. He is a middle-aged man with a scruffy beard. He parks his battered pickup in front of the Midnight Hotel. The six-to-midnight clerk, a junior college freshman named Marina Desoto, later tells Deputy Anna Gomez that when she saw the pickup pull to the curb, she assumed the driver would come in to rent a room. Marina does not add that she had been a little excited at the prospect, since in the months she has worked at the hotel only six people have asked for a room during her shift. Marina’s hope is dashed pretty quickly. Peering out the glass door, she watches the man fall out of the pickup “like he was drunk,” she tells Deputy Gomez and Sheriff Arthur Smith. Since Gomez knows Marina’s family, she also knows Marina is fully conversant with the behavior of drunk people. “What did he do then?” the deputy asks. “He walked funny, kind of leaning, like a big magnet was pulling him into the middle of the crossroad. And then he . . .” Marina’s voice trails off, and tears roll down her face. She lifts her hand to her head, forefinger pointed and thumb cocked, and mimes pulling a trigger. “You saw this from the front desk?” Smith asks. He’s checked the line of sight, and he’s skeptical. “No, you can’t see the whole intersection from the desk,” Marina says immediately, but not as if she’s really thinking about the question. “I had gotten up and walked to the door to lock it, after I saw him get out of the truck. Because he was acting so weird.” “Smart,” Gomez says. “So he was just carrying a gun in his hand?” “He pulled a gun out of his waistband. And he shot himself.” Gomez makes herself keep her eyes on Marina, though she’s tempted to turn to look at the dark heap still crumpled by the road. An ambulance is waiting to take the corpse to the nearest medical examiner’s office. “He didn’t say anything? You didn’t see him make a phone call?” Sheriff Smith says instead, going over ground already covered. He’s seen a cheap cell phone in the man’s shirt pocket. “N Zusammenfassung DON'T MISS MIDNIGHT! TEXAS ! THE NBC TV SERIES BASED ON CHARLAINE HARRIS'S BESTSELLING NOVELS! From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels co...
