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Title: Mourning Mansion
Author: Billie Sue Mosiman
Narrator: James Killavey
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-11-13
Publisher: BILLIE SUE MOSIMAN
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
A new novella of dark suspense by the author of more than 50 books, Edgar Nominated Billie Sue Mosiman.
It's 1984 and Bill Turk is building a mansion on the Gulf bay to rival all mansions. It will have 12 bedrooms and twelve bathrooms. It will have marble and wrought iron, a 40-foot pool, a Jacuzzi, a ballroom, and a garden maze. They're going to call it Mourning Mansion when he's done bringing his darkness to bear inside the brick walls. Parties will be thrown, drugs will be free and booze will flow. Bill's boys will have a wonderful time - all the way to the end. Jack DeShane is a veteran cop who has seen it all, but Mourning Mansion is some new hell he needs to investigate. Boys are missing. Bill Turk is an ex-con with more money than God. And Turk has put iron bars on all the verandahs and windows. Jack needs to find out why.
Open the door...the marble floors await you...the darkness and the courage to fight it all reside here inside Mourning Mansion.
Loosely based on true crimes that occurred along the Gulf Coast, Mourning Mansion features Detective Jack DeShane from the classic Mosiman novel, Wireman.
Critic Reviews:
"Billie Sue Mosiman's novels are edge-of-the-chair all the way!" (Ed Gorman, Award Winning Author)
Members Reviews:
Jack's Back!
This novella is a sequel of sorts to Wireman. We meet up with Jack DeShane in the twilight of his career as a cop. This story is part crime suspense and part Texas gothic.
As in Wireman, we venture into the heads of some not-so-nice characters.
Bill Turk is a filthy rich guy who has built an elaborate mansion in a seaside town near Houston, Texas. Bill's got special plans for his custom mansion. He plans to use it as a kill house. See, Bill likes killing young boys. The mansion is right on the Gulf of Mexico, so he's got a great dumping ground. All Bill Turk needs is a partner in crime. Then, he finds Tyler.
Tyler is a young male runaway turned prostitute. He has done it all and is pretty jaded about the whole thing. All he really wants is to find a sugar daddy on the streets of Houston. Then, he meets Bill. Like most things that seem too good to be true, this one turns to crap sooner rather than later. And Tyler doesn't handle it so well.
Jack DeShane knows something is amiss in the huge mansion by the sea. He just can't quite figure out what it is. But Jack is a determined sort, and what he finds will stick with him a good, long time.
Again, in Mourning Mansion, Ms. Mosiman's talent of getting the reader into her characters' heads shines through. I found myself unable to put down this story, even when I felt absolutely horrified by the goings-on.
Mourning Mansion by Billie Sue Mosiman
I have to admit I am a fan of Ms. Mosiman's particular brand of horror, thriller and macabre novels so I always look forward to a new one or finding one I haven't read. I find her writing tight, well paced, which keeps me coming back for more.
In "Mourning Mansion" the protagonist decides to build an edifice to his wealth and talent along the gulf coast. So enamored is he of his own self-worth he builds a home fit for a minor royal. Huge, elegant and stately, at least in his own mind, he builds it with no lack of attention to detail and in absolute perfection. His party house now complete he adds bars to all the windows and a safe room.
