Stephen Woodworth

Special, violet-eyed individuals with the talent for channeling the voices and spirits of the dead, who serve as a valuable tool for law enforcement by exposing murderers, themselves become the target of a deranged serial killer who is out to destroy all those who could reveal his or her crimes. Original.

Through Violet Eyes

Struggling to build a new life with her young daughter far from her former career as a psychic investigator, Natalie Lindstrom is drawn back into the darkness when corruption in a high-profile trial in California threatens to return a dangerous killer to society and a terrifying enemy from the past plots to unleash his vengeance on Natalie and her loved ones, in the sequel to Through Violet Eyes. Original.

With Red Hands

Wenn die Toten deine Begleiter sind: Der Mystery-Thriller »Die Sprache des Blutes« von Stephen Woodworth als eBook bei dotbooks. Sie will nicht davonlaufen müssen – doch ihre besondere Gabe bringt sie immer wieder in Gefahr ... Weil sie mit den Seelen der Toten sprechen kann, muss Natalie Lindstrom immer wieder um ihr Leben fürchten. Da die Polizei und die »Nordamerikanische Gesellschaft für Jenseitskommunikation« immer wieder versuchen, sie unter ihre Kontrolle zu bringen, nimmt Natalie ein ungewöhnliches Angebot an: Sie soll ein archäologisches Forschungsprojekt in Peru unterstützen. Zu spät erkennt sie, dass ihr Auftraggeber in Wahrheit düstere Pläne verfolgt – und Natalie für ihn nichts anderes ist als ein Werkzeug, das er nach Belieben einsetzen kann ... und zerstören kann! Jetzt als eBook kaufen und genießen: »Die Sprache des Blutes« von Stephen Woodworth ist der dritte Band der Urban-Fantasy-Tetralogie »Violet Eyes«. Wer liest, hat mehr vom Leben! dotbooks – der eBook-Verlag.

– Roman: Violet Eyes 3 | Hochspannung mit einem faszinierenden übernatürlichen Element

Die Sprache des Blutes

Natalie Lindstrom has a gift: the power to speak to the dead, to solve crimes by interviewing murder victims. But now Natalie wants to escape. Escape from the voices that fill her head. Escape from the organization that has used her as a crime-solving tool…and now wants to recruit her daughter. So Natalie takes a job as far from crime and punishment as she can get: with an archaeologist in the mountains of Peru. Her job: to find a trove of priceless artifacts–by channeling those who lived and died at an ancient Incan site. But in the towering Andes, Natalie enters a 500-year-old storm of betrayal, murder, greed, and rage–and she cannot silence the voices of the dead. The slaughtered reach out to her. The slaughterers boast of their crimes. Alone, cut off from her family, Natalie faces a chilling realization: every truth she uncovers is leading her one step closer to a terror beyond imagining.

In Golden Blood

“A fast, smart novel, brighter than a meteor and twice as scary. Stephen Woodworth provides shocks and thoughts in equal measure, and climbs right to the top!”—Greg Bear In a world where the dead can testify against the living, someone is getting away with murder. Because to every generation are born a select few souls with violet-colored eyes, and the ability to channel the dead. Both rare and precious—and rigidly controlled by a society that craves their services—these Violets perform a number of different duties. The most fortunate increase the world's cultural heritage by channeling the still-creative spirits of famous dead artists and musicians. The least fortunate aid the police and the law courts, catching criminals by interviewing the deceased victims of violent crime. But now the Violets themselves have become the target of a brutal serial murderer—a murderer who had learned how to mask his or her identity even from the victims. Can the FBI, aided by a Violet so scared of death that she is afraid to live, uncover the criminal in time? Or must more of her race be dispatched to the realm that has haunted them all since childhood? Praise for Through Violet Eyes “Chilling . . . shades of Minority Report and The Eyes of Laura Mars . . . tantalizing puzzle rife with red herrings, one made all the more entertaining by brisk pacing and strong internal logic.”—Publishers Weekly a“Wow . . . one cool idea and Stephen Woodworth makes it work like fine oiled machinery. Full of energy and suspense, Through Violet Eyes is a great and original first novel. I look forward to his next.”—Joe R. Lansdale “An eerie and compelling page-turner that maps the terra incognita between the living and the dead, loss and redemption, desire and grief, at the same time exploring what it means to be human in a frightening otherworld that too closely evokes our own reality.”—Elizabeth Hand

A Novel

Natalie Lindstrom has a gift:  the power to speak to the dead, to solve crimes by interviewing murder victims.  But now Natalie wants to escape.  Escape from the voices that fill her head.  Escape from the organization that has used her as a crime-solving tool...and now wants to recruit her daughter.  So Natalie takes a job as far from crime and punishment as she can get: with an archaeologist in the mountains of Peru.  Her job:  to find a trove of priceless artifacts -- by channeling those who lived and died at an ancient Incan site. 

But in the towering Andes, Natalie enters a 500-year-old storm of betrayal, murder, greed, and rage -- and she cannot silence the voices of the dead.  The slaughtered reach out to her.  The slaughterers boast of their crimes.  Alone, cut off from her family, Natalie faces a chilling realization:  every truth she uncovers is leading her one step closer to a terror beyond imagining.

Los Violetas son personas nacidas con los ojos de color violeta y habilidades psíquicas especiales, que les permiten invocar a los muertos. Cinco años después de la muerte de Dan y del nacimiento de Callie, Natalie ha abandonado el CCUN (Cuerpo de Comunicaciones Ultraterrenas Norteamericano) y lucha por mantener a su hija alejada de su antigua vida de servidumbre bajo el férreo control del gobierno americano. Vigilada de cerca por el Cuerpo que espera la mínima oportunidad para hacerse con la custodia de su hija y reclutarla, Natalie intenta mantener una vida normal; educa a su hija y se dedica a mediar en asuntos familiares ultraterrenos, poniendo en contacto a personas con sus familiares muertos. Pero su nueva vida se viene abajo cuando la fiscal del distrito le pide ayuda para condenar a un joven asesino que está a punto de salir impune. Aunque todas las pruebas físicas no dejan duda de su culpabilidad, las víctimas que comparecen en el estrado niegan que él haya tenido nada que ver con sus muertes. Natalie sospecha que existen irregularidades con los testimonios que está prestando un reputado Violeta y se pone a investigar. Sus descubrimientos la llevan hasta el corazón de su peor pesadilla infantil: Thresher, un brutal asesino que fue ejecutado, pero que vuelve del más allá para hacerle la vida imposible.

Manos rojas (Médium Natalie Lindstrom 2)

Using her paranormal talents to summon the spirits of the great artists, Natalie Lindstrom, a former crimefighter known as a Violet, is suddenly faced with the return of her ex-lover-turned-Violet killer, Evan Markham, as well as the only surviving test subject of a deceased geneticist, as she struggles to protect both herself and her young daughter. Original.

From Black Rooms

Over the past two decades, Stephen Woodworth has established himself as one of the leading writers of weird fiction in our time. His short stories have appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and many anthologies. In this volume, his first short story collection, Woodworth demonstrates his mastery of a diverse array of themes and motifs and his power to evoke terror and weirdness with skill and panache. Woodworth's tales range widely in setting and subject-matter, from "Voodoo" (which summons up terrors in New Orleans) to "Street Runes" (set in Woodworth's native Southern California) to the dream-world of "In the City of Sharp Edges." A distinctive sort of zombie is found in "The Silent Majority," while "Serial Killers" and "Scary Monsters" find terror in other familiar tropes of weird fiction. "Voodoo," "Revival" and "A Tour of the Catacombs" evoke Lovecraftian terror at their most chilling. Throughout his tales, Woodworth displays a humanity that portrays his troubled and disturbed characters with sympathy and psychological depth as they wander through a world whose terrors are both real and fantastic. Stephen Woodworth is the author of the Violet Eyes series of horror novels (Through Violet Eyes, With Red Hands, In Golden Blood, and From Black Rooms) and the coeditor of the anthology One Night at the Villa Diodati.

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