In case you missed it, a new eBook edition of PENNIES FROM HEAVEN by James P. Blaylock is out now! Published by JABberwocky in the UK and North America, here’s the synopsis…
Jerry Larkin discovers an age-old secret buried beneath the foundation of the house that he and his wife Jane, an avid reader of ghost stories, bought six months ago in the idyllic town of Old Orange in southern California.
Jane Larkin, whose MacArthur grant led to the creation of public gardens and a farmers market in the town’s central park, works against time to save what she has built as a 100-year storm moves in off the coast.
Lettie Phibbs, a strange librarian whose Antiquity Center holds the secrets to the hidden history of Old Orange, inserts herself into the Larkins’ lives, growing increasingly eccentric and menacing, as unpredictable as the storm itself.
PENNIES FROM HEAVEN, a six-day mystery, tells the tale of a small town haunted by the reanimated ghosts of a buried past, a story that reaches a terrifying crescendo of murder and intrigue in a high-paced rush toward fate and redemption.
The novel is also available in a signed, limited edition from PS Publishing, as well as in a UK trade paperback edition.
Blaylock is one of the fathers of Steampunk, and the acclaimed author of (among others) the Langdon St. Ives Adventures, published by Titan Books and JABberwocky (novellas, short story collections).