Introducing F.E. Higgins and The Bone Magician

F.E. Higgins is the author of The Black Book of Secrets and the Bone Magician, both available from Feiwel and Friends. www.feiwelandfriends.com

Pin Carpue is on his own in the world. His mother is dead and his father is missing after being labled a suspect in a rash of murders. Pin finds a job working for the local undertaker as a body watcher, making sure people are really dead before they're buried. One night, the body he's supposed to be watching is surrounded by three people engaged in a most unusual ceremony. An old man--a bone magician--and his young female assistant are waking a woman so her grieving fiance can have one last good-bye with her. Pin doesn't believe it will work, but then the dead woman sits up and speaks.

Pin cannot believe they are raising the dead. He cannot believe his father is a murderer. In trying to discover the secret of the bone magician, will Pin himself become the killer's next victim?

In this "paraquel" to The Black Book of Secrets (that is, a story that takes place simultaneosly), F.E. Higgins delivers a tale that is smartly creepy and creepily smart.

F.E. Higgins's debut novel, The Black Book of Secrets, was a Book Sense Top 10 title. The author lives in Kent, England.

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