Catharsis

by Larry Eyre

In a summer twilight preserved in the mind's eye like a fossil in amber, a young boy is told that ghosts are only memories; thirty years later, that wisdom will be harshly tested. As their jobs and way of life slip relentlessly away, people in Fir Creek, Oregon, begin looking back, toward better times and choices once made. Soon, bodies begin turning up under increasingly odd circumstances. Grappling with the mysery of the bizarre deaths, the local police chief comes to understand that to stop them, he must exorcise both the towns demons and his own. That, however, begs the answer to a daunting How do you arrest the haunting ghosts of the past--before it's too late? Driven by memorable characters, permeated with the timbered atmosphere and lore of the Pacific Northwest, Catharsis is a twisting ride through the human psyche, unsettled by change, in exploration of the hard prices called due for our past the often terrible prices of love, and life.

364 pages, Paperback

First published May 28, 2001