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Overview

The chance to build a dream home on a private island in Italy's most beautiful lake offers architect Tom Lupton the fresh start he's been yearning for. But when he arrives with his family on Diavolino, he finds the terrified locals dead set against his arrival. The island, whose very existence has been shrouded in secrecy for half a millennium, has a dark history that no one cares to remember, and as the locals' opposition to Tom grows, so grows a brooding evil that will lead them to the very doors of hell...

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  • ISBN-13: 9781936751945
  • Publisher: Etopia Press
  • Publication date: 3/1/2012
  • Pages: 316
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.71 (d)

Meet the Author

Steve Emmett was born in Harrogate, the genteel Yorkshire spa town
where Agatha Christie hid away from the world thirty-two years
earlier. He studied at the prestigious Architectural Association
School of Architecture in London and built a few houses before going
off the rails. He spent time in New York then returned to Yorkshire
where, amongst other things, he served as an elected councillor. He then
moved back to London and worked in the real estate sector. For over twenty
years he ran his own agency specializing in Italian country homes and, for
almost ten years, lived by Lake Trasimeno in Umbria, the setting for
his debut novel.

Born at the end of the 1950s, Steve grew up on Dennis
Wheatley novels and Hammer Horror films, and on many occasions started
to put pen to paper. Completely dissatisfied and unfulfilled with his
career, Steve decided in 2009 that he wanted to write and began
Diavolino. He has also recently launched an acting career with Northern
Spirit Creative in Leeds. He currently lives with his partner and some rather large spiders in the Yorkshire Wolds, close to the ancient City of York.

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  • Posted March 25, 2012

    Emmett sets the mood from page one in this horror masterpiece. T

    Emmett sets the mood from page one in this horror masterpiece. There's plenty of foreshadowing in place that leads me to wish I could warn the Lupton family. Emmett builds your knowledge of the characters' personalities layer by layer while moving the plot along at fast pace that keeps you turning the page. The imagery of the novel immerses the reader in several environments - England, Italy, and Hell.

    If you want a read that feels like a stroll in the park, this isn't it. This book keeps your running with the Boogie Man behind you.

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  • Posted December 6, 2011

    A Devilishly Delicious Read

    This is my kind of horror story. Great plot, plausible characters that you actually care about and a pace that never lets up. This is 21st century Dennis Wheatley meets Stephen King and I found it unputdownable. Highly recommended.

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  • Posted September 23, 2011

    get ready to be up all night!

    Highly recommend! I couldn't put it down! Unique story line, like nothing I've never read before. I'm looking forward to reading more from this author.

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  • Posted February 18, 2011

    Supernatural Thriller--a Book You'll Recommend

    Diavolino is a riveting supernatural thriller. This well-crafted book includes terrifying scenes, vivid monsters, and three-dimensional characters. The exquisite setting in Italy's Lake Trasimeno area provides an intriguing contrast between intense beauty and horrifying occurrences.

    Architects Tom and Elspeth Lupton, accompanied by their young daughter, Alice, travel to Italy at the request of an affable but unconventional client, Roger Ashby. It seems as though they have an enviable assignment to build a house on a previously unknown island that Ashby purchased. But the island has an occult history involving human torture and sacrifice.

    Sima, Tom's assistant, accompanies the Luptons. Her ties with the supernatural provide the spark that ignites a shocking sequence of events, which a powerful sinister character orchestrates. His malicious intentions pose a global threat. Tom's race to save his family provides the reader with unrelenting suspense.

    Anyone who reads the book will be pleased to know that this talented author has already started on a sequel.

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  • Posted February 16, 2011

    Recommended!

    If you enjoy getting lost in adventures, this is the book to read. Fast-paced with characters you care about (one way OR the other), the author craetes a dark but entertaining story.

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  • Posted February 16, 2011

    Should be at the top of your TBR list

    If you're a fan of Dan Brown and Stephen King, look no further. I have just read "Diavolino" that will keep fans of both thrilled - a kind of DB and SK one-stop book. How it could be overlooked by large publishing houses is beyond me, but maybe it's the sign of the times, I don't know.

    I'm not usually a fan of paranormal and horror but this new story grabbed me from the very first page. I just had to, so I emailed the author and said, Wow! And I was only on chapter three. By the end I was breathless, so wrung out I couldn't touch a keyboard until now.

    The scene is set in Italy, there's Vatican involvement in this thriller (we believe), and a puzzle to solve that leads back to ancient icons and history, not forgetting a simmering fight between Good and Bad on the point of boiling over. Sounds like Dan Brown? Maybe, but this is so much better.

    The reader is able to smell, taste, feel and see the countryside of Umbria, the author really knows his stuff about this area. But, don't worry, it doesn't overwhelm the plot at all.

    We start out in the Papal States, circa 1545. In true Stephen King fashion the reader gets a foretaste of the horror to come and what a horror, the author is a master at conjuring up the worst images and situations. I was just wiping my brow when I breathed a sigh of relief to be taken to recent London and characters as normal as you or I (!) Fully rounded characters, I might add - none of your two dimensionals à la D.B. - with believable dialogue and quirks.

    It's not my place here to give the plot away, suffice to say that my relief was short-lived as I was transported off to modern-day Italy - back to that place in Umbria which had me reeling in the beginning. And that's where the suspense builds. And if the horror at the beginning was bad, you won't believe what comes up later.

    The author is exceedingly clever: he's done a lot of research into his subject and releases it at just the right pace. He knows how to tease, to thrill and to leave almost every scene on a cliff-hanger that has the reader begging for more. It is a heart-racing thriller with twists that take you on a roller-coaster which will have you clinging to the sides of your chair. But it's a fun ride that builds to a horrifying climax having reduced Italy to a boiling cauldron (Italians watch out!).

    All I can say is, put this at the top of your reading pile and be prepared to sweat (or glow, in my case).

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