Sizzler

by Wolf Schimanski, B. J. Tiernan

Overview

When Lexi-Jo Lyman, a Freelance writer, and Herbert Duvane, a mysterious computer technician, find themselves caught up in a bizarre takeover of the tranquil city of Margate, Florida, the heat is on. Personalities and behaviors are changing in the locals against their will, and no one can figure out why. Crime, murder and promiscuity are on the rise, and the gentle city is in utter chaos. Looking through some curious journals, Lexi-Jo and Herbert discover that the only hope to extinguish the gripping phenomenon is to recover a lost amulet in the Everglades - the key to the hostile invasion. An expedition is set up, and the search for the amulet is on. Staggered by the dark web that is closing in all around them, Lexi-Jo and Herbert realize they are in way over their heads and reach out to Kellie Sierra, a Margate detective, for help. Will it be too late, or will they crack the dark puzzle that is threatening their lives and tearing the city apart?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163344123
Publisher:	Wolf Schimanski
Publication date:	09/02/2019
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	483 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Wolf Schimanski epitomizes everything thriller. His 'Meter' trilogy is now complete and available at all major online retailers. 'Sizzler' is his first collaboration with south Florida author B.J. Tiernan. Wolf lives in London, ON, Canada and is now working on 'Overdone', the sequel to 'Sizzler' with B.J.

BIO B.J. Tiernan is a retired middle school teacher. Throughout the years, she has given numerous seminars, inspirational workshops and classes that promote self-growth and writing skills. She has taught several creative writing classes at Community Schools in Broward County, Florida. She loves to write contemporary fiction that causes the reader to think, ponder and question the age-old questions of why we are here. She dedicates her work to all of the students who have passed through her classes and workshops, hungry to learn and to write.

Editorial Reviews

2019-11-01
In this supernatural novel, the residents of a Florida suburb challenge a dead killer able to jump between bodies.

Margate, Florida, is a quiet suburb full of good neighbors, clean yards, and safe children. It's the perfect place for recently deceased serial killer Eli Wickenscholz to wreak havoc from beyond "the veil." As an entity of pure energy, he'd like to re-enter the physical realm. Doing so means absorbing the dark potential lurking in the average citizen. He begins manipulating some of the residents' "psychic and sexual energy." Lexi-Jo Lyman, meanwhile, has moved to Margate to start over. Her past involved dating Kono, a con man. Now she's hiding from Ghost, the hitman who killed Kono. Elsewhere, Toni Arrigone runs the Heaton Motel and Bar. Toni is sure that the business' former owners, the Muelensteins, hid "a large sum of money" that they didn't put in the bank. Other Margate denizens caught in Eli's trap are young Teddy Millhausen-Jones, who can tell that the sex-crazed adults are "under a spell," and psychic Cueball Kusiniski, who, along with his daughter, Saige, learns that only a special amulet can keep Eli's essence within a host body of his choosing. Into the mix comes Det. Kellie Sierra to carve logic from the madness. This thriller by Schimanski (Meter of Redemption, 2017, etc.) and Tiernan (Yield, 2016, etc.) feels like quintessential Florida pulp, right down to the disposal of bodies in the Everglades. The tight narrative moves like an alligator through water, giving an equal jolt of life to numerous quirky characters, including Herbert Duvane, an albino computer repairman. He and Lexi-Jo discuss Kundalini energy, which is "the latent blueprint of all that we are and all we are yet to be." When Eli's possessions begin, he picks likely and unlikely hosts, providing satisfying twists, among them the killer's inability to fully control certain people. Florida's natural magic doesn't go unnoticed, as in the line "Teddy was mesmerized by the majestic beauty and the foreboding wilderness of the Everglades." The finale brings surprising closure to various characters, leaving exciting space for a sequel.

An excellent thriller that dips its toes in waters both sinister and spiritual.

Kirkus Reviews