it is haunted by lingering spirits, and by nameless beats which lurk in the grounds, riding the shifting tides of time.Īcross California, into Nevada and back again, Odd embarks on a road chase to prevent the tragedy. But the house contains terrible and bloody secrets. Odd finds refuge there, with the very pregnant, and very mysterious, Annamaria. Just off California's Pacific Coast Highway stands Roseland: a mansion, protected by high walls. As he waits to learn why he has been drawn there, he finds work as a cook and assistant to a once-famous film actor who, at eighty has become an eccentric with as long a list of fears as he has stories about Hollywood s golden days. Intuition has brought Odd Thomas to the quaint town of Magic Beach on the California coast.

But even in the silence of the mountains, danger and desperation haunt him still… It’s December and the remote abbey is besieged by icy winds and snow. Tragic events have led him from his sun-bleached desert home of Pico Mundo to a monastery in the High Sierra, searching for peace. Odd, a charismatic young man with a sense for the otherworldly and the downright strange, is in self-imposed exile. He has already lost the love of his life and now a childhood friend has disappeared and the worst is feared. Odd never asked to communicate with the dead they sought him out, in the small desert town of Pico Mundo, which he can never leave.

Genius fry-cook at the Pico Mundo grill boyfriend to the gorgeous Stormy Llewellyn and possibly the only person with a chance of stopping one of the worst crimes in the bloody history of murder.

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