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Eternity
What a wacky group of characters! This is the first book that I have read by Tamara Thorne but it will not be the last. Eternity is a mixture of suspense, horror and a touch of science fiction/ fantasy. Although the writer did not "tie up" all the loose ends, it is still a great story. Also there is a slight problem with the number of businesses in a this small town. With less than 500 population Eternity had several restaurants/night clubs, resorts, stores, an asylum etc.....My wife's aunt lives in a town of 500 population and all they have is a BP station.

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Wecome to Eternity
I ordered a copy of Tamara Thorne's "Eternity" more or less as an afterthought. Good horror is hard to find and it was time to try someone new. Little did I know that I had just signed up on a crazy roller coaster ride through the mountains of North California chasing the trail of one of the most prolific serial killers of modern times.

Zach Tully has recently been recruited to the post of sheriff in the obscure town of Eternity. He is leaving behind a successful career as a homicide detective and the horrifying images of his wife and child who were slaughtered by the 'Backdoor Man." He arrives hoping to find peace and forgetfulness but finds himself buried neck deep in strangeness.

Eternity has several different flavors of residents. There are ordinary town folk, tourists, refugees from the local mental home, and 'lifers', who seem to have been around forever. In addition, lights and UFO's appear around Icehouse Mountain, the local peak, which also sports a stone circle around which considerable weirdness seems to happen.

Eternity can also boast of the highest murder rate north of San Francisco. If records can be believed, there have been streaks of serial killings for almost 150 years. Tully hardly has time to get out of his car before his is confronted with an almost daily cycle of gruesome killings. He also meets Kate McPherson and her son Josh, who are being menaced by this killer and a possessive ex-husband.

Thus the scene is set for a tale of escalating surprises. Thorne proves that even the oldest serial killer theme can be given interesting twists, including a killer who delights in adding whole levels of meaning to 'not a leg to stand on,' and 'in one ear and out the other.' As an author she has a pleasant readable style, which often reveals a wry sense of humor. Her characters, whether normal, eccentric or horrible are believable and entertaining. I am looking forward to Thorne's other books.

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Murder, Murder and Murders Galore
Homicide detective Zack Tully was good at catching serial killers, but not only was he not able to close the case of the "Backdoor Man," the Backdoor Man murdered his wife and son, leaving him beat and broken, so he quits the big city and takes a job as sheriff in small town Eternity, a small mountain town.

However he's not on the job very long before he learns that Eternity has a horribly high homicide rate, plus it seems that town sheriffs seem to get themselves murdered as well. He learns that the murders appear to run in cycles, a lot of killing, then a period of peace. He is determined to catch the killer, who calls himself Jack, but leads and clues are few and far between.

To make matters worse the towns inhabitants are a little around the bend to say the least, the weirdest are the lifers who are afraid that if word of the killings gets out, that it'll kill tourism, but that doesn't stop them from betting on who is going to die next.

This book is a mystery, a horror story and a little unbelievable, but it is very entertaining, never boring and hard to put down, because things in small town Eternity are not what they appear to be.

Reviewed by Stephanie Sane