About the Author: Laine Cunningham
Laine Cunningham’s work has won multiple national awards, including the Hackney Literary Award and the James Jones Literary Society fellowship. In past years, the Hackney Award was received by Horton Foote and William Styron, placing Laine in the ranks of Pulitzer Prize-winning authors. She has also received fellowships and residency slots from the Jerome Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, the New York Mills Cultural Center, Wildacres and the Cornucopia Arts Center.
Her most recent novel,
Beloved: A Sensual Noir Thriller
(fka He Drinks Poison), follows a female FBI agent who must access the dark power of the goddess Kali in order to bring down a serial killer. The book was shortlisted for the Pirate’s Alley William Faulkner award.
Her first novel,
The Family Made of Dust: A Novel of Loss and Rebirth in the Australian Outback
(fka Message Stick), touches on social tensions between Aboriginal and mainstream cultures in Australia. The work was hailed as “The best novel in ten years†by the Hackney awards committee.
A companion book,
Seven Sisters: Spiritual Messages from Aboriginal Australia
, is also available. The work retells Aboriginal stories in a way that helps modern people address age-old issues of love, parenting, illness and death.
More information can be found at www.LaineCunningham.com.
To support her writing habit, Laine owns a publishing consultancy called Writer’s Resource (www.WritersResource.us). For twenty years she has helped other authors write, rewrite and pitch their books to publishers.
She tends to eat too much chocolate but figures a happy writer with smudgy fingers is much more fun than a cranky one with never a spot on her manuscripts.
Other books by Laine Cunningham
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Laine Cunningham
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Paperback, Published in Nov 2012 by Sun Dogs Creations
ISBN10: 0982239998 | ISBN13: 9780982239995
Page count: 252
An FBI agent tracking two separate serial killers must access a dark and sensual power to find justice.
Shortlisted for the Pirate's Alley William Faulkner Award Recipient, Vermont Studio Center Residency and Grant Recipient, Wildacres Arts & Humanities Center Residency
When FBI agent Priya Conlin-Kumar tracks two different serial killers hunting in the same city, she sees visions from The Ramayana, an ancient Hindu epic about the demon king Ravana. As each new vision creeps further into the physical world, it seems those demons have arrived in Wheeling. One is a serial rapist who kills to prevent his victims from identifying him. The other is a superpredator who fetishizes his victims and their manner of death. He becomes fixated on Priya, believing her to be his perfect woman. Killing her will bring him the ultimate satisfaction.
While one killer stalks the other as a bizarre kind of courtship, Priya falls in love with the county sheriff and welcomes his kinky streak. Each night his knowledge of bondage opens her to pleasures she has always desired and the trust she has always craved. Their loving BDSM activities stand in stark contrast to the sexualized violence of the murders. To find justice for dozens of women, Priya must access the dark, sensual power of the goddess Kali. Her nights with her lover grow ever more intense until her shakti - her female power - shakes the mountains. Only then can she face the demonic superpredator on his own terms.
The dark Swedish noir of Erik Axl Sund s The Crow Girl shadows America s Allegheny Mountain Range in this atmospheric page-turner of a thriller. A blistering police procedural and the FBI profiler hunt for two serial killers interweave, while the killer s countermoves recall the dark intensity of Poppy Z. Brite s Exquisite Corpse. Combined with a supercharged erotic love story, this complex and entertaining novel from award-winning author Laine Cunningham reveals the real horror story embedded in serial killer psychology. "
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