Quiver

By: Holly Luhning

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Hardcover | 15 July 2011

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in sixteenth-century Hungary, Countess Elizabeth Bathory tortured and killed over six hundred servant girls in order to bathe in their blood. She believed this practice would keep her skin youthful and her beauty immortal.

Quiver tells the story of Danica, a forensic psychologist who works at a former insane asylum-turned-forensic hospital. one of Danica's mental patients is Malcolm Foster, who is imprisoned for murdering a fourteen-year-old girl. Foster is a menacing but fascinating patient and Danica begins to suspect that Foster may have been the head of a gothic cabal idolizing Bathory. Her peers dismiss her discoveries, while disturbing incidents begin following her home from work.

Soon after her arrival in London, Danica receives a mysterious note from Maria, a seductive archivist with whom Danica has had an intriguing and complicated past. Maria claims she has Bathory's diaries that chronicle her relentless torture of young women. As Maria increasingly insinuates herself into Danica's life, soon Danica is in too deep to notice that Maria's motivations are far from selfless; in fact, they may just cost Danica her life.

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A psychological thriller, a tour de force of depravity topped with pure evil, Luhning's story will turn your stomach. It is not for the lighthearted .There is the inevitable fast-paced, exciting ending, straight from Hollywood. What we are left with is a powerful, well-written book. Holly Luhning combines history, mental illness and art to create a wild ride. The malignant spirit of 16th-century sociopath Countess Elizabeth Bathory hovers over events in Canadian author Luhning's suspenseful first novel, a modern tale of obsession and seduction The care with which Luhning (Sway, a poetry collection) orchestrates the tale's events makes Danica's discovery of the dark side of herself and others both believable and chilling. " First-time author Holly Luhning holds a Ph.D. in the literature of 18th-century madness and theories of the body, but there is nothing remotely academic about this thriller. It is fast and wicked and dark. The writing in this novel is as clean and slick as a stiletto between the ribs.--Antanas Sileika

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