The Rendering (Paperback)

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Mike Lot served twenty-nine years for murdering the one he loved “more than anything,” yet even now, Ruby has not relinquished her hold on him. Something sinister threatens her, even in death, and he will never be free of the past until he can find a way to help her. But first he must find her lost spirit. His search leads him from a backwoods dowser to a small-town P.I. to a dying young artist, and culminates in a psychic battle on the brink of hell itself.

Part mystery, part supernatural thriller, The Rendering above all is a quest driven by love that rewards both Mike and the reader with a poignant message of hope.

Product Details

• Paperback: 306 pages
• Publisher: Outskirts Press (August 26, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 143274318X
• ISBN-13: 978-1432743185
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #104,181 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The inspired new writing of an accomplished author, October 11, 2009

By	John E. Cashwell - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Leann Marshall's "The Rendering" is first and foremost a robust recognition of her growth as a fine and accomplished writer. When she told me it was available at Amazon, I asked for a copy wherein I encountered these great passages about the "aura phenomenon," which I accept as those "electrical pulses" emanating from all of us that most people believe to be our "souls." I am not as familiar with the definition of the many colors, but I am very aware of the influence of auras. If you are a believer, you are going to love this book.

Jam-packed with strong characters and an even stronger core philosophy praising life and the power of love, Ms. Marshall knows how to spin a tale of suspense and non-stop action. A huge step forward as a complete author and a welcome read. Enjoy!***** __ John E. Cashwell

5.0 out of 5 stars Love and the power of fantasy, September 22, 2009

By	John Casey (St. Louis) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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While waiting for my car to be inspected, I decided to finish the final chapters of this great piece of imagination. My decision was a good one because my focus was to stay involved in the final sweep of events. I wanted to see how this writer could pull a love story all together . . . not on my impending negative inspection report. Of course, I was somewhat distracted, a bit, by an exotic, absorbed young woman in the waiting area who had activated an impressive laptop . I make the comparison because I saw a connection between one person, alive, solving a business solution, and another woman, a writer with the ability to grant life to major characters - empowering them to alter events that can and should be altered. Today's technology will do that with the right hookups with the right person at the right time. Oh, by the way, our Toyoto passed with flying colors, as did The Rendering!

5.0 out of 5 stars A great story well told, August 31, 2009

By	Barbara Milbourn "writer and editor" (Nashville) - See all my reviews

Move over Southern writers, there's someone new among you, and she's good--really good.

I'm not sure Leann Marshall wants to be called a Southern writer, but her first book, The Starfish People and now her second, The Rendering, both take place there and she lives there as well. She's a whiz at Southern dialogue and getting her readers into the heads and hearts of her Southern characters.

Don't think for an instant though that you'll feel stifled by or anchored to a specific region. She has supplied both books with big wings that transport the reader from the flars (flowers) down home to lofty and deep-reaching themes.

In The Rendering, Mike Lot is released from 29 years in prison for the murder of the one he "loved more than anything." He'd never talked of her to anyone the whole time there and he'd done well to keep his thoughts of her sequestered in a place he called the Dream Safe. But he feels her around him; it's almost as if she were not dead, and when the prison gates close behind him, the one thing he wants to do is to see her again.

While he makes that journey, the reader's attention turns to an art studio in which something speaks in first person of becoming, of being created, of seeking to see and understand itself. It discovers its power to not only think and to feel emotions of love, loneliness, fear and desire, but its power to move things, to break things, to transfer its self into people and stuffed animals. It observes and comes to question and then conclude which is greater in this "round world"--good or evil, love or anger.

Mike returns to the time and place he first met his love and there encounters and old dowser woman who dowses for more than water. She knows things and wishes to teach him so he can find his love again, save her, and send her home. There's a spirit tree, an artist, a terrific storm, a lightning strike, and events that change things forever. There is a private eye that sets Mike upon a road and a townsperson from Ash Creek who discovers a secret. There is opposition in many forms and another surprise near the end that makes the book even greater than the sum of so many already wonderful parts.