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The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death - Charlie Huston
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death
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With his teaching career derailed by tragedy and his slacker days numbered, Webster Fillmore Goodhue makes an unlikely move and joins Clean Team, charged with tidying up L.A.'s grisly crime scenes. For Web, it's a steady gig, and he soon finds himself sponging a Malibu suicide's brains from a... show more
With his teaching career derailed by tragedy and his slacker days numbered, Webster Fillmore Goodhue makes an unlikely move and joins Clean Team, charged with tidying up L.A.'s grisly crime scenes. For Web, it's a steady gig, and he soon finds himself sponging a Malibu suicide's brains from a bathroom mirror and flirting with the man's bereaved and beautiful daughter.Then things get weird: The dead man's daughter asks a favor. Every cell in Web's brain tells him to turn her down, but something makes him hit the Harbor Freeway at midnight to help her however he can. Soon enough it's Web who needs the help when gun-toting California cowboys start showing up on his doorstep. What's the deal? Is it something to do with what he cleaned up in that motel room in Carson? Or is it all about the brewing war between rival trauma cleaners? Web doesn't have a clue, but he'll need to get one if he's going to keep from getting his face kicked in. Again. And again. And again.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780345501127 (0345501128)
ASIN: 345501128
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
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The Book Frog
The Book Frog rated it
4.0 The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death: A Novel
Webster Fillmore (for the venue, not the president) Goodhue is an elementary school teacher turned slacker. A class trip violently transformed into a wrong place at the wrong time scenario has rendered him more or less prostrate on the couch--in an apartment he can no longer afford to pay rent on o...
MAS
MAS rated it
4.0 The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death
Gripping prose, believable characters you can own, a gritty tale well worth the read.
Marvin's Bookish Blog
Marvin's Bookish Blog rated it
5.0
Charlie Huston is in danger of leading my list as my all-time favorite writer with every book of his I read. I have soared through the Hank Thompson series and the Joe Pitts series. But this is the first stand alone novel of Huston's I've read. And it is freakin' awesome. Yeah, the author doesn't kn...
Ceridwen
Ceridwen rated it
The Mystic Arts of Washing Your Mouth Out with Soap, Young Man.So, I really like swearing, cussing, and doing both at once. I'm fond of light blasphemy, I enjoy a good dick joke, and quips about yo mama are almost never not funny. And although I'm sure you, dear reader, think I'm being tongue-in-che...
Another fine mess
Another fine mess rated it
2.0
Okay, pal Donny, avert your eyes. I'm sending you my copy tomorrow, or maybe the next day, but I'm also sending you something I think a lot better. But, regardless, I'll expect you to write a really good review of Mr. Huston's latest, making the right and righteous case for his talent, as you have...
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