{"product_id":"2940157886622","title":"Morningstar","description":"\"Atkins knows how to tell a story and keeps this one thrumming with tension. Devotees of dark suspense will find it to their liking.\"--Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"An audacious mix of vampires, ghosts, goddesses, and psychopaths. Wonderful stuff!\"--Neil Gaiman\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Morningstar is a wonderful book--intelligent, well-written and filled with memorable scenes and images.\"--Bentley Little\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Atkins is a brilliant supplier of shudders and splendors.\"--Clive Barker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFACT: When Stephen Lumby was being slaughtered he lost as much sweat induced by mortal terror, as he would have lost on a two-mile run.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFACT: Although the majority of Katharine Elizabeth Ferritti was found in a deserted hardware store, smaller pieces of her were still being discovered by sewer workers up to two months after her killing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFACT: Lumby, Ferritti and ten other people were all murdered in the first eleven days of June. Their ages ranged from eight to sixty-one. In each case, on the available surface nearest to the body, scrawled in the victim's blood, was a single word:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMORNINGSTAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFacts not released by the police: in each case, the cause of the death was rupture of the heart by a sharpened wooden stake; in each case the victim's mouth was stuffed with garlic.","brand":"Cemetery Dance Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104009634032,"sku":"2940157886622","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940157886622_p0.jpg?v=1764115703","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940157886622","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}