Black House

A Novel

Hardcover, 625 pages

English language

Published Feb. 21, 2001 by Random House.

ISBN:
978-0-375-50439-6
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OCLC Number:
87169748

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Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and her Territories "twinner" from a premature and agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, WI. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken those memories.

When a series of gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades earlier by a real-life madman named Albert Fish, the killer is dubbed "The Fisherman" and Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help his inexperienced force find him. But is this merely the work of a disturbed individual, or has a …

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Subjects

  • Ex-police officers -- Fiction
  • Serial murders -- Fiction
  • Wisconsin -- Fiction