Floating Souls: The Canal Murders
Elegant, informative and masterfully crafted, this story announces an exciting new talent in the world of mystery fiction. Manhein brings to Floating Souls all the knowledge of her many years as a successful forensic anthropologist and all her considerable understanding of human nature. She has the rare ability to construct a setting that grabs the reader and holds fast. We hope to see more of her. --Malcolm Shuman, author of The LeveeManhein takes the reader by both hands and thrusts them into the canals of New Orleans and Venice. They come out dripping with a stark knowledge of one murder after another. Forensic anthropologist Maggie Andrepont thrusts her hands into the corpses themselves to resurrect the details of their lives and deaths. Scientist and literary artist Manhein knows how to activate the reader's emotions, imagination and intellect to make her fiction as real as the reader can endure, right on through the shocking revelations at the end. --David Madden,author of Abducted by Circumstance