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Follow on Google News | ![]() International Book Award Winning Finalist Night Whispers Slated For Italian TranslationMultiple Award winning author Matthew J. Pallamary has signed a contract for the Italian translation of Night Whispers, a horror story set in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester where he grew up.
His first Italian translation was The Infinity Zone written in collaboration with Paul Mayberry, published last year in Italy as La Zona Infinita, by Hermes Edizioni. Additionally, Pallamary's award winning historical novel Land Without Evil about first contact between the Jesuits and the Guarani Indians of South America, told from the Indian's point of view is being translated into Spanish and is tentatively scheduled for translation into German while his San Diego Book Award Winner Spirit Matters is being translated into Norwegian. Night Whispers is the darkest novel I have ever written," says Pallamary, who grew up In the Boston neighborhood where most of the book is set. "My memoir Spirit Matters tells what it was like for me to grow up in Dorchester," In Night Whispers, Nick Powers climbs into a stolen car without knowing it and gets chased by the cops on a wild ride that ends in a crash that knocks him unconscious. When he comes to he hears whispering voices, but the cops are in hot pursuit so he stumbles out of the car and runs. After escaping he sees a homeless man arguing with himself and realizes that the whispers he hears in his head are the other side of the argument. Perplexed, Nick follows the man to a homeless shelter. Max Broderick is the sole member of the U.S. Justice Department's Occult Crime Unit who the Boston Police have asked assistance from after a number of bodies have been dug up and found decapitated. Working with Lieutenant Colleen O'Grady of the Boston Police, they operate out of Dorchester's District Eleven Station investigating the bizarre aspects of their case until a series of macabre murders points toward a druid cult that appears to be connected to the same homeless shelter that Nick has been led to. While the police are investigating the high profile murders, homeless people are disappearing, but no one seems to care - except Nick. http://youtu.be/ Mystic Ink's titles have also won the acclaim of noted writers, among them Ray Bradbury, Charles Champlin - L.A. Times Critic Emeritus, Charles M. Schulz, Barnaby Conrad, Victor Villasenor, David Brin, and noted psychologist Stanley Krippner. Based in San Diego since 2000, Mystic Ink Publishing is an independent publisher focusing on works of a spiritual, shamanic, new age, or transcendent nature as well as dramatic works of Phantastic Fiction © in the paranormal genres of magical realism, horror, supernatural thrillers, and science fiction. The English language edition of Night Whispers is available at: https://www.amazon.com/ End
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