Smart-mouthed P.I. Eddie Dancer returns for another hard-edged trip to the underground, this time to England after a psychologist friend calls in a panic: he has been accused of multiple, grisly murders, and is about to be arrested. It all began with a manuscript, the doctor claims—a 200-year-old treatise by the great Franz Anton Mesmer, who may have been dabbling in dark forms of mental manipulation. People who come in contact with the paper all end up murdered, from Mesmer's great-great-granddaughter, who smuggled it out of Germany, to Dancer's translator, who meets her fate at the brutal hands of a serial killer. Once Eddie teams up with an unlikely ally, the two of them unearth valuable information about the killings, the killer, and the power the manuscript has over their minds and, possibly, over the grave itself.
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In this sequel to All Shook Up (2005), which introduced Eddie Dancer, the Canadian private eye wings his way to England, where a psychologist (and friend) stands accused of multiple murders. Eddie's investigation soon zeroes in on a two-century-old manuscript, written in Old Italian by an Austrian physician. The manuscript convinces Eddie that, bizarre as it might sound, he could be dealing with a reincarnated serial killer. Eddie is a tough-talking, straight-shooting, dry-witted kind of guy, but Harrison somehow manages to make him different from all the other tough-talking, straight-shooting, dry-witted PIs out there. The supporting cast, from Dr. Peter Maurice (who turns out to be not quite the wronged man he claims to be) to various British characters, is uniformly excellent. Deftly combining suspense and Eddie's natural wit, the novel is sure to appeal to fans of the private-eye genre. David Pitt
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"Humorous and intriguing, Wild Thing is a delightful page-turner as rich with suspense as it is with polished prose." —Hour
"[A]n impressive debut.... [If] the next couple are as good as this, watch out." —Toronto Globe and Mail, on All Shook Up
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