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SEPTEMBER 27, 2009: DEATH AT DEACON POND BY: ELAINE ALEXANDER

By Jim Whiting

ELAINE ALEXANDER:

Death at Deacon Pond is a paranormal mystery about a teenage girl who uses her
psychic abilities to solve a murder. Grandparents should know that Death at Deacon Pond is a fast-paced thriller that appeals to reluctant readers, yet has enough twists and turns to keep fans of the mystery genre on their toes.

Death at Deacon Pond
Lobster Press, 2006
Ages 13-up
192 pages
$9.95

Book Blurb: 
Ever since her father's suicide, Kerri Langston has been tortured by visions of his violent death, leading her to believe that he was murdered. With no way to prove her theory, her psychic visions only serve to upset her mother and give her the reputation of being a "freak."
When Kerri stumbles upon a body in the woods near Deacon Pond she realizes her visions are not limited to her father's death, and that her strange connection with the dead might help solve a crime - if she can convince the police to trust her this time.
What Kerri doesn't know is that there is someone close to her who will stop at nothing to ensure that her visions remain hidden. In this small town full of skeptics, who can she trust?

Biography:
E. M. Alexander began working at the age of six, delivering newspapers up a steep, and decidedly creepy, hill called Robert's Road. She has worked as a student library aide, a pizza maker, a tee-shirt maker, as well as a receptionist and bill-collector. Currently, she is a freelance writer for a local community newspaper, The Reminder. One of the 2006recipients for the Barbara Karlin Grant, E. M. Alexander resides in
Connecticut with her husband, Phillip, and her son, Ethan. Death at Deacon
Pond is her first novel. For more information, please see www.emalexander.com.

For more information about Jim, please see www.jimwhiting.com. To inquire about availability of specific titles or to send a comment, write him at jimruns3@gmail.com.

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