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History and the supernatural collide in a sleepy Maine town when a woman is mauled by a bear and the trail of evidence begins to reveal hints of disappearing colonial settlers and ancient shamanistic skullduggery.
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Paul Bryers started out as a history teacher, and this should come as no surprise to readers of The Prayer of the Bone, a crime thriller fleshed out around a skeleton of legend, folklore, witchcraft and archaeology. A woman is found dead in the snow on a cliff top just south off the Canadian border. The injuries to her face suggest that she was mauled by a bear. Yet, when Detective Calhoun begins interviewing the locals and learns of the history of the area and of the ingrained culture of suspicion between the white villagers and the nearby Souriquois Indian community, his imagination is gripped with wildly fantastical explanations for the killing--he has to struggle to sustain his grasp on the facts. Bryers is a journalist, film maker and screen- writer, and has written three previous novels: Coming First, The Adultery Department and In A Pig's Ear. The Prayer of the Bone is a truly fine literary crime thriller that stands out from its contemporaries for its wisdom and magic. This is a frightening story about a place that has seen several centuries worth of murder and treachery but there is also tenderness and compassion. It's one of those rare novels that lives on in the mind long after you've finished the last page. --Anna Davis
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'The Prayer of the Bone is an engaging look at our fascination with the supernatural. Moreover, it has the pacing and cinematic flair of [Stephen] King, some odd and appealing characters, and even King's native Maine as its psycho-setting... [Bryers] peers into the places of the soul where fear resides.'-- Philadelphia Inquirer
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- PublisherBloomsbury Pub Plc USA
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1582340226
- ISBN 13 9781582340227
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages279
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