Cold Moon over Babylon

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Michael McDowell: Cold Moon over Babylon (1980, Avon)

Published Oct. 3, 1980 by Avon.

ISBN:
978-0-380-48660-1
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OCLC Number:
6151420

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16-year-old Margaret Larkin is found murdered: tied to her own bicycle and drown in the Styx River where her parents died in an accident ten years before. Her murderer, wealthy and insane Nathan Redfield, believes he got away with the crime. But soon he begins to see not only the ghost of Margaret, but other watery spirits that pursue him. The fever of a guilty conscience? Encroaching insanity? Or has Nathan inadvertently awaken the sinister and vengeful spirit of the river itself?

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The town of Babylon is home for quite a cast of characters. At it's heart, this is a supernatural ghost story, but it is also a tale of greed, the evil that men do and the disparity between the haves and the have nots. In this quiet little town, Evelyn Larkin waits for her granddaughter to come home on her bicycle from helping her teacher. Margaret Larkin never makes it across the bridge, a mere minute from her house, so close that she can even see her grandmother's window.
There's a cold blooded killer on the loose in Babylon and the murder victims aren't going to wait for the sheriff to bring justice. There is no peace for them until the killer gets what's coming.
I don't know how I would have missed out on reading this back in the 80s but I am quite pleased to have discovered it …

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