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Double Takes
DOUBLE TAKES by Anna Marie Laforest is a literary mystery novel. A musician, a massage therapist, a psychic, and a priest find love and friendship (and themselves) in a double-death that unravels their lives and weaves them back together again.
Joyce picks up on secrets from suspects’ muscle structure and their conversations ‘on the table.’ But she has a habit of falling in love with the wrong, and sometimes dangerous, man. Her long-time friend Jon, a professional astrologer and budding psychic detective, brings Gemini-like clues to the case as characters and conflicts become twinned.
Meanwhile, journal entries of a would-be writer start to pre-figure the life of her fiancé, Jay, who becomes convinced she has faked her own death. And the demise of a dauntless and indebted actor has everyone at Joyce’s theatre turned upside down.
Joyce picks up on secrets from suspects’ muscle structure and their conversations ‘on the table.’ But she has a habit of falling in love with the wrong, and sometimes dangerous, man. Her long-time friend Jon, a professional astrologer and budding psychic detective, brings Gemini-like clues to the case as characters and conflicts become twinned.
Meanwhile, journal entries of a would-be writer start to pre-figure the life of her fiancé, Jay, who becomes convinced she has faked her own death. And the demise of a dauntless and indebted actor has everyone at Joyce’s theatre turned upside down.
313 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 23, 2016
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Anna Marie Laforest
7 books11 followers The only thing Anna Marie loves more than reading and writing is listening to opera singers! (...and eating chocolate, of course.)
Anna Marie's essays, poems, stories, and theater reviews have been published in The Sulphur River Review, Austin, Texas; Washington Opera Magazine, DC; Intermission Magazine, Alexandria, Virginia; The Broadkill Review, Milton DE; Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Australia; and even on a cereal box created by LaPalabra Café Press in Portland, Oregon. She won an award for her poetry in the Grand Rapids, Michigan, Healing Cancer Series in the early 1990’s.
A Michigan native, she received her M.A. in English from the University of Wyoming, prior to which she studied with Joseph Brodsky in Ann Arbor and John Gardner at the University of Detroit. She spent several years as an Instructor of business briefing and analytical writing before returning to a focus on creative work.
Anna Marie feels her writing style has been influenced by Chekhov, Isak Dinesen, Anais Nin, E.T.A. Hoffmann, as well as by fairy tales and opera. She would love to know which of her stories resonate most with you!
Anna Marie's essays, poems, stories, and theater reviews have been published in The Sulphur River Review, Austin, Texas; Washington Opera Magazine, DC; Intermission Magazine, Alexandria, Virginia; The Broadkill Review, Milton DE; Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Australia; and even on a cereal box created by LaPalabra Café Press in Portland, Oregon. She won an award for her poetry in the Grand Rapids, Michigan, Healing Cancer Series in the early 1990’s.
A Michigan native, she received her M.A. in English from the University of Wyoming, prior to which she studied with Joseph Brodsky in Ann Arbor and John Gardner at the University of Detroit. She spent several years as an Instructor of business briefing and analytical writing before returning to a focus on creative work.
Anna Marie feels her writing style has been influenced by Chekhov, Isak Dinesen, Anais Nin, E.T.A. Hoffmann, as well as by fairy tales and opera. She would love to know which of her stories resonate most with you!
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November 10, 2016
A compelling lyrical mystery that dives into the behind-the-scenes of a theater company. A relatable protagonist, actors' antics and a murder intrigue keep the pages turning. I enjoyed it!!
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