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A Corpse's Nightmare (2011)

by Phillip DePoy(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0312699468 (ISBN13: 9780312699468)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Minotaur Books

series

Fever Devilin

review 1: This book is crazy and beguiling. It is a mystery, but it's also kind of sci-fi which adds another delicious element. While it say's it's a Fever Devlin mystery on the cover I did not realize it's the sixth book until I wanted to write this review. I've not read any other book in this series, but did not feel cheated as the story line speaks on it's own. The mysteries in the book has oddities interwoven through the story line like Ray Bradbury or Clive Barker with the sophistication of a Kurt Vonegut book. He uses actual quotes from Shakespeare and Poe to name a couple. Fever Devlin is shot and dies. He is brought back to life, only to remain in a coma for three months. When he comes out of the coma it is his desire to assist in his own investigation to discover who shot h... moreim and why. This is the simple underlying story, but it is by no means simple. Due to the length of the coma he awakes from Fever drifts in and out of sleep, sleeping long periods of time entering surreal type moments of the past. It is eluded to that this is part of his own heritage. The focus is on muddled events from New Orleans, France, Chicago and Georgia. A world of Jazz, genius, insanity, hatred and segregation. If you ever saw an episode of the outer limits, I think called Tempest, after a spider bite the individual goes back and forth from the airship to his own family and cannot tell which of the two are real. This has that type of feel. There's an elderly man from New Orleans ~ the Earl that continually appears to him unexpectedly and offers clues to putting his heritage together. Then Fever believes he can piece together his own childhood and the life of a mother he never understood. This information should enable him to understand who shot him and why. It's a wonderful book that allows your own imagination to freely flow. I only gave it 4 stars in that there were times I just kind of wished he'd get to the point, but I didn't dare jump ahead a few paragraphs to speed it up because those few lines that might seem unnecessary will be part of a clue he examines further on. I do give it a thumbs up and find it highly enjoyable reading.
review 2: This newest release from the Fever Devilin series is, if possible, the best I’ve read. For those unaware, Fever Devilin is a folklorist by trade who left the world of academia behind and moved back to his birthplace of Blue Mountain in the Appalachians of Georgia. Fever has always been beyond bright (with an IQ of 186) and there wasn’t anything he didn’t know since the age of nine.In this new novel, Fever begins in death, literally. Waking up in the hospital after three months, he's surprised and only has a vague recollection of being shot. An intruder walked into his home and shot him. No one has been able to find out anything about the intruder or why the crime was committed. All Fever seems to know for sure is that he had an “angelic” visitation that told him about a box hidden on his mantel that held a picture of a woman who looked a lot like his mother, an unsigned letter, and a mystery that existed back in Paris in 1923. Fever decides to figure this mystery out for himself by investigating the ‘visions’ he’s receiving. It’s difficult since his recovery includes blacking out without warning. And when Fever blacks out, he finds himself sitting in a Paris club called The Jazz Cat, watching a very frightening owner by the name of Lisa (who will take no guff off anybody, to say the least) and her true love, T-Bone. An intense mystery unfolds that spans time and includes everything from a desperate killer to The Great Migration, to who exactly Lisa and T-Bone really were and how they ended up a part of Fever‘s present-day life. The plot is intriguing and a great deal of fun to read. There are many adjectives that a reviewer can use depending on the mystery but, as always, Phillip Depoy stands out among suspense authors for the pure intelligence that he writes. His characters are witty and charming, and to be able to blend historical fact with present day, as well as continue to create new stories around a character that invites romance and danger is a true gift.Reviewed by Amy Lignor, author of “Tallent & Lowery - 13” for Suspense Magazine less

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