The Case of the Missing Corpse [Raven Lenore, Psychic Investigator #2] [Kindle Edition]

JOE VADALMA (Author)

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Hell On Earth.... In Second Volume Of the Raven Lenore Series! Raven Lenore has a new client, Mordecai Wilsey, a mortician. He wants her to find a corpse that has been stolen from his mortuary. Raven interviews the dead man's relatives with no result. However, when she calls upon the missing corpse's best friend, Peter Morgan, he talks about a vampire named Celia and that he saw the dead man alive and walking about. Raven sets up a surveillance of the mortuary. She sees someone enter it and catches Celia VanGrimm drinking blood drained from a corpse. Celia swears that she had nothing to do with stealing the corpse, but that Peter Morgan is one of her blood donors. She tells Raven that she can be contacted at Graceland Cemetery. In a nightmare, the dead tell Raven that she will be caught in the middle of a maelstrom. Raven, feeling that she is going nowhere with the case, holds a séance with two of her Wiccan friends. But, instead of contacting the spirit of the missing corpse, they contact Raven's doppelganger, Lenore Raven, and inadvertently bring her out hell to walk the earth.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 247 KB
• Publisher: PageTurner (April 13, 2009)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0026IUO78
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #846,641 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

I call myself Papa Joe. I've loved science fiction and fantasy from the time I learned to read. My hobbies, besides writing, are traveling, adventure game playing and do-it-yourself projects. Before I retired, I was a technical writer at a major computer manufacturer. Several short stories of mine have been published in E-zines. Two series of paranormal suspense novels of mine, called The Morgaine Chronicles and Raven Lenore, Psychic Investigator, have been published by Renaissance E Books. These novels may be purchased from Renaissance's Page Turner Editions site, at Fictionwise E-Books, at Amazon.com (Kindle edition) and other online book sellers.

Renaissance has also published collections of my short stories, The Sands of Time, Mordrake's Apprentice, and Love Among the Stars, five SF novels, Dinner With Dracula, For Love of Kumiko, Pawns of Tomorrow, Star Tower and The Bagod and a dark paranormal fantasy called The Laws of Magic. In the humorous fantasy vane, Renaissance had also published White Queen, Black Knight; Search for Prince Knight Black, Once in a Blue Moon and The Curse of Chaos.

I was born and raised in a working class neighborhood in Chicago. I believe my love of reading stems from my parents and grandparents, who were all avid readers. As a child, one of my favorite things was hanging out at the library or browsing in flea markets for books I could afford. One day my parents took me to see a most wondrous movie, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It made me a believer. From that time on, I read every Oz book I could get my hands on. I also loved comic books, especially the ones in the SF genre, Planet Comics, Superman, Captain Marvel, etc. I also liked mathematics and science, especially astronomy.

When I was twelve or so, I discovered the pulp magazines. They had garish covers and were printed on blotting paper, but the insides were marvelous. Even the letter columns were interesting. In these magazines, and the slicks and paperbacks that followed a few years later, I learned to love such writers as Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Robert Silverberg and so many others. About that time I decided I wanted to write in the genre, but never got started until many years later.

I was drafted into the army near the end of the Korean War and was sent to Germany, where I worked as a microwave repairman. Also, I married a girl who went to the same high school as I did, who I met at a party after I graduated. We've been married over fifty years now. We have four wonderful girls, ten grandchildren (who are now adults ) and one spunky
great-granddaughter.

For most of my working life, I was a technical writer for a major computer firm. I learned many things there about computers, about writing and about people and corporations. I lived the Dilbert cartoon. Because of my work, my wife and I moved to a small town in upstate New York where the manufacturing plant was located. We still live there, although the company has since closed the plant.

In 1993, I retired. That's when my fiction writing career really started. First I sold a few short stories to E-zines. (I use "sold" loosely. I seldom received a paycheck.) Then I sold a novel to a POD publisher and another to an E-book publisher. The pay is meager, but I enjoy writing so much that I'd probably do it even if they paid nothing (which is the standard with most E-zines).