RUMOR OF EVIL - a new thriller from best-selling author Gary Braver

Rumor of Evil

Gary Bravel

Gary Braver (pen name of Gary Goshgarian) is the award-winning and international bestselling author of nine critically acclaimed medical thrillers and mysteries. His novels have been celebrated for their high-concepts, careful craftsmanship, well-rounded characters, and page-turning momentum. Some of his titles include ELIXIR, GRAY MATTER, and FLASHBACK, which is the only thriller to have won a Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction (2006). His latest book, co-authored with Tess Gerritsen, is a murder mystery called CHOOSE ME (2021) which became a #1 bestseller on Kindle for six week as well as a bestseller in several foreign countries. Gary Braver’s novels have been translated into 16 languages, and three have been optioned for movies, including ELIXIR by director Ridley Scott. Under his own name, Gary Goshgarian, he is an award-winning professor of English at Northeastern University where he taught Modern Bestsellers, Science Fiction, Horror Fiction, and Fiction Writing. He has also taught fiction-writing workshops throughout the United States and Europe. He is also the author of six popular college writing textbooks, now in thirty-seven editions. He lives with his family outside of Boston. His website: www.garybraver.com

Detectives Kirk Lucian and his partner Mandy Wing investigate the reported suicide of a woman in her backyard. She’s a pillar in her Cambridge community and liked by everyone. But the hanging looks staged to Kirk and Mandy. Suspicions confirmed, they make a list of possible suspects. Clues begin to connect to the cold case of a beautiful 16-year old Romany exchange student who died mysteriously in a fire while she slept in the backyard treehouse of her host family. Dark circumstances surround Vadima Lupescu whose foreign ways –such as reading palms at pizza parties--would amuse her American teenage friends, including reading their palms at pizza parties. But when one student suddenly dies of a rare aneurism, the others wonder if Vadima’s “gypsy powers” had something to do with that. After Kirk and Mandy investigate some bizarre rumors—that Vadima put curses on people, such as causing one kid’s mother to get shingles, another kid’s dog to get run over—do they realize that the cold case of Vadima’s death has something to do with that recent hanging that beset Kirk and Mandy?

My books have been bestsellers because they have been celebrated as intense, compelling, and well-crafted mysteries and thrillers. And RUMOR OF EVIL is one of my best. The book addresses several issues of interest to women who buy most suspense novels—interests such as: • Female bonding • Female rivalry • Psychopathology • How the death of a child affects a marriage. • The need for a female to be free from a partner’s control. • The need for female agency. • The nature of ethnic and sexual prejudice. • The potentially dangerous consequences of conspiracy theories and unfounded rumors. • The toxic nature of sexual rivalry.

Hardback

The core crime in this mystery is the cold-case torching of a beautiful Romany exchange student while asleep in a typical suburban treehouse. The girl is wrongfully accused of being a witch, yet there is no supernatural element in the novel, just suspicions by the kids. 1. I suggest the image of an innocent treehouse, but in a gothic style, such as one cover design for ROSEMARY'S BABY—a creepy looking baby carriage. 2. Image of a treetop fire with hints of a treehouse structure in the flames. 3. That same image with a pretty teenage girl looking ominously out from the cover. Attaching other cover designs that the author likes.

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