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In a two-book debut for author Guillermo X. Márquez, Books Illuminated is publishing EVIL'S EDEN: Only Murders in Los Angeles and DISPOSSESSED: A Very L.A. Ghost Story.
LOS ANGELES - Californer -- Hybrid true-crime/horror EVIL'S EDEN: Only Murders in Los Angeles is a deft combination of chilling L.A. true crimes and a fictional telling of a sinister enterprise. In this scintillating book, Márquez dives into the sordid history of some of the most infamous Los Angeles cases, offering new takes on motives, methods, cover-ups, and perpetrators. EVIL'S EDEN transcends common true-crime voyeurism. The writer turns noir myths on their heads, connecting the dots on the evidence board to reveal new angles on "whodunit" and why.
The fictional fable of one particular evil spanning generations lurks between the real-world horrors. The Fitzhampton dynasty in the land of infinite sunshine began in the usual manner: with a theft and a lie. To escape a bevy of misdeeds, Fitzhampton moved west to Southern California, there building an empire upon the bones of the swindled and murdered. The Fitzhamptons became a Los Angeles founding family, leaving a legacy of perfected wickedness.
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Márquez explores cults, drugs, graphic crime scenes, homophobia, kidnapping, mutilation, mass deaths, mental illness, racial conflict, rape, robbery, bad parenting, substance abuse, suicide, victim blaming, and all things murder and mayhem. Readers sensitive to these elements, please take note as you prepare to enter Evil's Eden. Readers can visit EvilsEden.com.
Moving deftly into spooky fiction, Márquez has penned an electrifying and hilarious supernatural comedy novel, DISPOSSESSED: A Very L.A. Ghost Story (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=febJQ-qfvPA). Márquez deep-dives into life, love, and loathing in Los Angeles, a place of unbounded promise rooted in unfiltered evil. DISPOSSESSED centers on a young Hispanic Angeleno, Alex Olvera, and his tempestuous love for lily-white Tempest Wirth, as they death-spiral into homeownership under the spell of a decrepit Victorian with a grisly past.
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In the run-up to the holidays, Alex and Tempest are secretly apartment-hunting, defying parental edicts. But an overpriced, tumbledown rent-to-own Victorian mansion beguiles Tempest the moment she touches its antique Victrola. Soon, Alex is bedeviled by endless repairs, money woes… and is their janky love nest haunted? Now, the house wants Tempest to itself. Alex and his geeky friends must rescue her from the ghostly fiend — but how? DISPOSSESSED weaves the torrid tale of a modern-day triangle among a boy, a girl, and a thing long dead.
Sprinkled with Gen-Z coming-of-age angst, irreverent humor, and a hefty dose of Los Angeles local flavor, DISPOSSESSED is the scariest, funniest holiday season readers will ever spend between two covers. Readers can get their hands on this engrossing novel at DispossessedNovel.com (https://gxmarquez.com/dispossessed).
The fictional fable of one particular evil spanning generations lurks between the real-world horrors. The Fitzhampton dynasty in the land of infinite sunshine began in the usual manner: with a theft and a lie. To escape a bevy of misdeeds, Fitzhampton moved west to Southern California, there building an empire upon the bones of the swindled and murdered. The Fitzhamptons became a Los Angeles founding family, leaving a legacy of perfected wickedness.
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Márquez explores cults, drugs, graphic crime scenes, homophobia, kidnapping, mutilation, mass deaths, mental illness, racial conflict, rape, robbery, bad parenting, substance abuse, suicide, victim blaming, and all things murder and mayhem. Readers sensitive to these elements, please take note as you prepare to enter Evil's Eden. Readers can visit EvilsEden.com.
Moving deftly into spooky fiction, Márquez has penned an electrifying and hilarious supernatural comedy novel, DISPOSSESSED: A Very L.A. Ghost Story (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=febJQ-qfvPA). Márquez deep-dives into life, love, and loathing in Los Angeles, a place of unbounded promise rooted in unfiltered evil. DISPOSSESSED centers on a young Hispanic Angeleno, Alex Olvera, and his tempestuous love for lily-white Tempest Wirth, as they death-spiral into homeownership under the spell of a decrepit Victorian with a grisly past.
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In the run-up to the holidays, Alex and Tempest are secretly apartment-hunting, defying parental edicts. But an overpriced, tumbledown rent-to-own Victorian mansion beguiles Tempest the moment she touches its antique Victrola. Soon, Alex is bedeviled by endless repairs, money woes… and is their janky love nest haunted? Now, the house wants Tempest to itself. Alex and his geeky friends must rescue her from the ghostly fiend — but how? DISPOSSESSED weaves the torrid tale of a modern-day triangle among a boy, a girl, and a thing long dead.
Sprinkled with Gen-Z coming-of-age angst, irreverent humor, and a hefty dose of Los Angeles local flavor, DISPOSSESSED is the scariest, funniest holiday season readers will ever spend between two covers. Readers can get their hands on this engrossing novel at DispossessedNovel.com (https://gxmarquez.com/dispossessed).
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