Blue Rose Trilogy Series by Peter Straub
Blue Rose Trilogy #1
Koko brt-1
Peter Straub
KOKO. Only four men knew what it meant. Now they must stop it. They are Vietnam vets — a doctor, a lawyer, a working stiff, and a writer. Very different from each other, they are nonetheless linked by a shared history and a single shattering secret. Now, they have been reunited and are about to embark on a quest that will take them from Washington, D.C., to the graveyards and fleshpots of the Far East to the human jungle of New York, hunting someone from the past who has risen from the darkness to kill and kill and kill.
“A masterpiece of terror.” —Los Angeles Times “Complexly plotted, thickly layered evil. . . . The ultimate horror.” —The New York Times Book Review “A dead-center hit. . . . A gripping, enthralling, nonstop read.” —San Francisco Chronicle ______
Vietnam vets. All were as different as men could be--yet all were bound eternally by a single shattering secret. And now they join again on a quest that could take from the Far East to New York . . . hunting an inhuman ghost of the past, risen from nightmare darkness to kill and kill and kill.
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Blue Rose Trilogy #2
Mystery brt-2
Peter Straub
In a meaty tribute to mystery sub-genres, Straub ( Ghost Story ) serves up a coming-of-age tale, a country-manor murder mystery and a twisted knot of governmental corruption and cover-up. Ten-year-old Tom Pasmore, a rich resident of the Caribbean island of Mill Walk, is hit by a car and, in a near-death experience, sees visions of himself in the future. During his long recuperation, Tom reads mystery stories brought to him by Lamont von Heilitz, an eccentric neighbor, once a famous detective. Action resumes when Tom, now aged 17 and possessed of sharpened deductive skills, gives the police an anonymous tip to help them solve the murder of a government official's sister. Tom's tip backfires, motivating him to join Lamont in trying to solve a murder that took place 20 years earlier in the Wisconsin resort town where Mill Walk's privileged citizens spend their summers. That layered, complex case reveals a long history of corruption, leads to more murders, to realization of the meaning of Tom's early visions and his discovery of his true identity. While evocative of place and time (the early '60s) and peopled with memorable characters, the story tries to fit into too many subgenres to succeed completely at any one. $200,000 ad/promo.
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