Mystery by Peter Straub is $2.99 at Amazon US.
Straub is primarily a horror writer, but there are no supernatural elements here. Mystery is the second book of a trilogy (after
Koko, followed by
The Throat). But the trilogy is told out of order. Mystery (set in the 1960's) should stand on its own.
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Tom Pasmore, ten years old, survives a near fatal accident. During his long recovery, he becomes obsessed with an unsolved murder and finds he has clues to solving it that he shouldn’t. Lamont von Heilitz has spent his life solving mysteries, until he wanted to know nothing more of the terror of life and the horror of death. When a new murder disrupts their world of wealth, power, and pleasure, the two must form an unlikely partnership to confront demons from the past and the dark secrets that still haunt the present.
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