A barricade in hell

Format:

Book

Title:

A barricade in hell

Author:

Moyer, Jaime Lee author

ISBN:

9780765331830

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Tor, 2014.

Physical Description:

331 pages ; 22 cm

Number in series:

General Note:

"A Tom Doherty Associates book."

Summary:

"Delia Martin has been gifted (or some would say cursed) with the ability to peer across to the other side. Since childhood, her constant companions have been ghosts. She used her powers and the help of those ghosts to defeat a twisted serial killer terrorizing her beloved San Francisco. Now it's 1917--the threshold of a modern age--and Delia lives a peaceful life with Police Captain Gabe Ryan. That peace shatters when a strange young girl starts haunting their lives and threatens Gabe. Delia tries to discover what this ghost wants as she becomes entangled in the mystery surrounding a charismatic evangelist who preaches pacifism and an end to war. But as young people begin to disappear, and audiences display a loyalty and fervor not attributable to simple persuasion, that message of peace reveals a hidden dark side. As Delia discovers the truth, she faces a choice--take a terrible risk to save her city, or chance losing everything?"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject(s):

Young women -- Fiction.

Clairvoyants -- Fiction.

Evangelists -- Fiction.

Women detectives -- California -- San Francisco -- Fiction.

San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

California -- San Francisco.

Genre:

Detective and mystery stories.

ghost stories.

Fantasy fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Holds:

Available:*

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Summary

In Jaime Lee Moyer's A Barricade in Hell, Delia Martin has been gifted (or some would say cursed) with the ability to peer across to the other side. Since childhood, her constant companions have been ghosts. She used her powers and the help of those ghosts to defeat a twisted serial killer terrorizing her beloved San Francisco. Now it's 1917--the threshold of a modern age--and Delia lives a peaceful life with Police Captain Gabe Ryan.

That peace shatters when a strange young girl starts haunting their lives and threatens Gabe. Delia tries to discover what this ghost wants as she becomes entangled in the mystery surrounding a charismatic evangelist who preaches pacifism and an end to war. But as young people begin to disappear, and audiences display a loyalty and fervor not attributable to simple persuasion, that message of peace reveals a hidden dark side.

As Delia discovers the truth, she faces a choice--take a terrible risk to save her city, or chance losing everything?

Author Notes

JAIME LEE MOYER's Delia's Shadow won the 2009 Columbus Literary Award for Fiction. Moyer has sold short fiction to Lone Star Stories , Daily Science Fiction , and to the Triangulations: End of the Rainbow , and Triangulations: Last Contact anthologies, and edited the 2010 Rhysling Award Anthology for the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Moyer lives in San Antonio with writer Marshall Payne, three cats, three guitars, and a growing collection of books and music.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Moyer's ghost-busting sleuths of San Francisco (introduced in Delia's Shadow) are back in fine form. Madam Isadora Bobet and her apprentice, Delia Ryan, are always surrounded by the shadows of the dead. Most of these shades are quickly sent on their way, but when the ghost of a persistent little girl invades Delia's dreams, she knows that mystery is afoot. Is it a coincidence that her husband, Capt. Gabe Ryan of the SFPD, happens to be working on a murder case that is likely part of a series of ghastly slayings? How do the deaths and ghosts connect to Miss Effie Fontaine, an evangelist for peace who recently arrived in San Francisco? It's going to take courage, quick thinking, and stout hearts, for Delia and her team to solve the tangled mess of clues in front of them. Moyer has definitely upped her game. Agent: Tamar Rydzinski, Laura Dail Literary Agency. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Library Journal Review

In 1917 San Francisco, police captain Gabe Ryan and his partner Jack Fitzgerald are on the trail of a woman they believe may be responsible for dozens of deaths, but they need the help of Gabe's wife, Delia, and her mentor, Dora, to stop the killing. Delia has the ability to see ghosts, and with Dora's help she is learning how to banish them. But the dark forces they trace to the pacifist evangelist Effie Fontaine are no mere ghosts,and the stakes are higher than they thought, perhaps even affecting the war that is raging in Europe. VERDICT Chapters focused on Gabe and his police work alternate with those told from Delia's point of view as she deals with spirits that seem to be calling to her husband, seeking justice. The period setting of this series, which began with 2013's Delia's Shadow, adds an interesting layer to this fantasy/mystery mix, making it something you could hand to fans of Charles Todd or Jacqueline Winspear. (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.