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The Eclipse of the Soul

By: Christa Ingrid Stempel

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The Eclipse of the Soul is a fictional crime story loosely based on the true story of the disappearance and murder of three young women in Perth the during the 1990s. The narrative emphasizes interpersonal relationships as the characters lives intermingle. The story centres on one of the three girls, Clarissa, and features the abduction and murder of the other two, Sonya and Elisabeth. The subplot centres on a man named Joseph who, suffering a lifetime of physical and mental abuse, kills his mother and buries her in the coastal bush where, not much later, Sonyas killer throws her body. A jogger finds the body, and a task force headed by Detective Francois Fountain begins the investigation of her murder. Then Elisabeth goes missing. Joseph runs an auto-repair shop and employs Clarissas cousin Oliver. The cousins share a house with Johanna, a medical student, who becomes romantically involved with Detective Fountain. The killer, Dallas, a sadist who lives out his fantasies with a prostitute, meets Clarissa in a nightclub and is fascinated by her. When they were parting, Clarissa tells him that he can find her most Saturday nights at her local pub. Looking for her, Dallas first meets Clarissas look-alike, Sonya, and then Elisabeth. He tortures, rapes, and kills both girls. While Elisabeths corpse is still in his freezer, he finally meets up with Clarissa at the pub, abducts her, and locks her in his underground prison like he did with Sonya and Elisabeth, but he neither tortures nor rapes her, as she becomes special to him. Joseph, who devises and executes an elaborate plan to explain his mothers disappearance, meets Detective Fountain socially and finds out where the killer dumped Sonya close to his mothers grave. Although the police task force didnt find Josephs mothers grave during their search of the area, Joseph feels the need to get rid of her body once and for all. As he digs up his mothers remains, Dallas drives down to the coastal bush to dump Elisabeths body, and Joseph catches him, initiates Clarissas rescue, and dumps his mothers remains in shark-infested waters. Dallas is sentenced to life in prison, and Josephs mother is never found.

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The Thunder of Nautilus

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The Thunder of Nautilus

By: Christa Ingrid Stempel

Enter the mind of a madman in the stunning crime novel The Thunder of Nautilus. The story takes place in the sprawling Wiltshire countryside. Malcolm Macbeth is a psychopath. Incarcerated at age eighteen, he spends years as a patient in a psychiatric institution. Once released, he takes revenge by killing the prosecutor he holds responsible for his internment. After the murder, he meets a woman in a nightclub, who invites him for drinks back at her desolate farmhouse, where her accomplice is waiting. They overpower Malcolm and lock him up in the basement. Calling themselves "the disciples of Hades," they are Satanists and have their own version of dark rites planned that will sacrifice Malcolm. Not far from the farmhouse stands a manor house, whose owner is a former forensic psychiatrist who had been consulted in Malcolm's attempted murder case years ago. A cottage near the manor has been purchased by a gay interior decorator named Nigel who takes along a friend to spend some time in the quiet countryside. Their country visit doesn't turn out to be so quiet after all, as investigators discover events that the devil himself could not have conceived in a more hideous and gruesome fashion. Christa Ingrid Stempel grew up in Hamburg, Germany. A fan of gothic writers Daphne du Maurier, Emily Bronte and Mary Shelley, she believes the English countryside's grand houses, drafty castles, and fog-covered moors provide the perfect backdrop for mystery, murder, and dark thoughts. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/ChristaIngridStempel

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The Eclipse of the Soul

The Eclipse of the Soul

The Thunder of Nautilus

The Thunder of Nautilus

The Thunder of Nautilus

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