December - Softcover

Rickman, Phil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425153770 ISBN 13: 9780425153772

Publisher: Berkley, 1996

Synopsis

Thirteen years after recording and hiding an album in a tower house that had been an abbey in the twelfth century, the members of The Philosopher's Stone band reunite and agree to confront the dark horror that prevented the album's release. Original.

About this title

About the Author:

Phil Rickman is the author of the Merrily Watkins Mystery series.

From Publishers Weekly:

In December 1980, a rock band whose members are all psychics, records an album amidst the ancient ruins of an abbey in Wales. The result is tragic; but 14 tormented years later, the band members are lured to a reunion by inescapable forces. Together, they try to stem the evil emanating from the abbey. Though long, this novel rarely drags. But neither does it terrify. A surfeit of plot may be the explanation; it's hard to work up a good scare when moving so quickly and shifting focus so often. The idea of an all-psychic band?a real stretch?suffers here from overkill: the talents of these four men and women include precognition, teleportation and much more. And the novel's whirlwind ending, however entertaining, does not sufficiently resolve all of the preceding conflicts. December remains a good editing's distance away from the caliber of Rickman's (Curfew) best. Less would have been more.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0425153770
• ISBN 13: 9780425153772
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 48