Kathleen Mckenna is a transplanted Alaskan who spent
twelve years on her first paragraph and now lives and writes prolifically in the opposite kind of desert in New Mexico.
She has written eight novels to date and recently nearly
lost all eight when her laptop and her back-up drive failed simultaneously. At the last count, seven had been recovered.
'The Wedding Gift' is Kathleen's third novel, the first
of a supernatural trilogy. The second in the series, 'The Comeback', will be published by Night
Publishing in late 2010.
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The Wedding Gift
Kathleen McKenna's explosive third novel 'The Wedding Gift'
excels in so many categories it defies them all.
It is a spine-electrifying supernatural tale where a huge Southern States mansion
contains one of the most terrifying, violent and indeed psychopathic ghosts to haunt any town.
It is also a murder mystery - why did Robina Willets apparently kill all five
of her young children, and her husband, before stabbing herself to death?
And, if you are in the camp of believing that 'justice .... just is not', then
this will have you frothing at the mouth with righteous social fury.
Add to that the vision of two exceptionally beautiful girls lying on a landing
stage in the middle of a secluded lake, sleeping naked in the sun ....
.... and then see if you can find any consecutive ten minutes in this book when
you don't at least snicker at the heroine Leeann's sly, caustic, sometimes-knowing sometimes 'too stupid to live' commentary.
Comment from Tim
Roux, author of 'Missio' and 'The Dance of the Pheasodile': Several
times in the 'The Wedding Gift' Kathleen McKenna has the narrator bursting out with phrases like 'Oh shoot, hell yeah, he
was grinning like an egg suck dog' or words to that affect. Well, that was me she was describing throughout the book, grinning
like an egg suck dog. I don't know what one of those might be, but I sure want to be one.