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Author: Mary Maddox | Website
Mary Maddox grew up in Utah and California. A graduate of Knox College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, she now teaches at Eastern Illinois University. She lives in Charleston, Illinois with her husband, film scholar Joe Heumann. Her interests include dressage and tournament Scrabble. Mary's short stories have appeared in a number of magazines including Farmer's Market, Yellow Silk, and The Scream Online. Her writing has been honored with awards from the Illinois Arts Council.
Published Works & Book Reviews
Talion
The dying body has a thousand voices, and all of them speak to Rad Sanders. Now he has found his tenth and youngest victim, a fifteen-year-old girl whose death will sing more purely and beautifully than any other. Lisa Duncan has no idea she has attracted Rad's interest. When she goes to spend the summer with her aunt and uncle at their small mountain resort in Utah, he tracks her there and awaits his chance. He watches as Lisa befriends Lu Jakes, the daughter of employees at the resort. Lu enters his fantasies as well. He learns she is being abused by her stepmother and toys with the notion of freeing her from her sad life and keeping her awhile as his captive. Introverted and strange, Lu seems like an easy conquest who could be persuaded to turn on her new friend. But she possesses a power Rad cannot imagine.
Reviewer: Laurie-J
Review: Jan 5, 2011
Genre(s): Suspense, Fantasy
Lisa Duncan is spending some time with her Aunt and Uncle, who own the Hidden Creek Lodge, a small, isolated resort in Utah. The teenager, a beautiful fifteen-year-old, had gotten into trouble back home so her parents sent her away, hoping to remove and protect her from the bad influence of wild friends. Instead, Lisa becomes the target of a deranged killer and the idyllic resort becomes his playground.
Lisa