Background
Karen Novak was born on February 10, 1958, in Dallas, Texas, United States.
345 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA 99362, United States
In 1976 Karen Novak attended Whitman College.
440 E McMillan St, Cincinnati, OH 45206, United States
In 1994 Karen Novak gained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Union Institute and University.
345 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA 99362, United States
In 1976 Karen Novak attended Whitman College.
440 E McMillan St, Cincinnati, OH 45206, United States
In 1994 Karen Novak gained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Union Institute and University.
(In 1889, Eleanor Bly flung herself from the tower of Five...)
In 1889, Eleanor Bly flung herself from the tower of Five Mile House after murdering her seven children. More than a hundred years later, her ghost reaches out to Leslie Stone, a New York cop who has killed a child murderer and is haunted by her actions. New to the town of Wellington-famous for its coven of witches-Leslie becomes obsessed with Eleanor's story, suspecting that the truth may be quite different from local legend. As she digs deeper, uncovering dangerous town secrets, her life and the lives of her children are put into peril. Is Leslie destined to suffer the same madness as Eleanor Bly?
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2000
(Nestled in a hidden valley, Lágrimas is the last stop for...)
Nestled in a hidden valley, Lágrimas is the last stop for a host of eccentric and questionable souls. When Joyce arrives looking for her son on a tip from a hitchhiker who claims to have seen him there, she settles in a bit too quickly for the locals' comfort. Much to her crushing disappointment, the boy she's been led to is not her son, but an emotionally battered teenager who communicates solely through lines from The Tempest. The locals, suspicious of Joyce's intent, believe that she has brought with her the forces of the Owl, a devastating storm that threatens to demolish Lágrimas once every decade. Like a storm, the histories of Joyce and all of Lágrimas' inhabitants come raining down over the course of this riveting novel. Emotionally wrought and ultimately redeeming, Ordinary Monsters is a remarkable story about the sorrow of loss and the gift of healing.
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2002
(When private investigator Leslie Stone's own thirteen-yea...)
When private investigator Leslie Stone's own thirteen-year-old daughter, Molly, attempts to hire her to find a vanished friend, the case stirs memories of one from Leslie's own troubled childhood: a series of abductions of girls who became known as the Nightingales. Five eighth-grade boys are being charged with assaulting Molly's friend. But even as their small town erupts in anger and calls for justice, Molly insists that the boys are innocent, and takes the stand to testify on their behalf. Leslie's investigations show that although Molly may be right, someone is guilty. As the case draws her own secret knowledge of the Nightingales' history toward the light, she is left uncertain of every instinct except the one that demands she protect her child - even if she has to betray her own childhood by telling everything.
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2003
(When the body of an elderly man is found naked, frozen to...)
When the body of an elderly man is found naked, frozen to death on the grounds of an abandoned petting zoo near where private investigator Leslie Stone lives with her family, the discovery triggers what Leslie calls the "haunted amusement park" of her mind. Voices and apparitions she knows to be hallucinatory disrupt her waking world. And she is unable to forget that the old man has left behind what seems like a riddle to be solved: an odd drawing and a children's poem with a shifting meaning, titled "The Wilderness." Compelled to find out what happened, Leslie finds her search interlacing with that of investigative journalist Sophia Mallory, who is tracing her personal path through the historical tragedy of slavery and its aftermath. Together they uncover a pattern of institutionalized violence so brutal, so inexplicable, that it resembles a curse. As "The Wilderness" leads each woman deeper into the past, it also leads them deeper into their own psyches, forcing them to question their motives for solving a mystery which threatens to destroy the lives of everyone they love.
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2004
Karen Novak was born on February 10, 1958, in Dallas, Texas, United States.
In 1976 Karen Novak attended Whitman College. In 1979 she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from Concordia University. In 1994 Novak gained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Union Institute and University.
Karen Novak’s interest in writing began as a child, and she would spend her allowance money on paper and pencils. In Novak’s debut novel, Five Mile House, detective Leslie Stone is unhappy in her job. After another person is arrested for murdering a child, Leslie becomes so angered that she kills the suspect, but is acquitted of the murder charge. Her husband moves her and their two daughters to the quiet New England town of Wellington, a town with a large population of Wiccans after he accepts a job to refurbish an old home called Five Mile House. Soon Leslie hears the legend of the house, in which a century ago the owner, Eleanor, killed her seven children and then herself. Not believing that a woman would kill her own children, Leslie begins to research the story to find the truth.
Novak’s second novel, Ordinary Monsters, is the story of Joyce, who leaves her Vermont town and her husband in search of her runaway seventeen-year-old son. She encounters a hitchhiker who claims to have seen her son in the Hoodoo bar in the small town of Lagrimas, California. In Lagrimas, she meets many different people: Danny, an autistic boy; Duncan, a junkyard owner and the man who takes care of Danny; and T.J., the Hoodoo’s friendly waitress. Joyce decides to buy the Hoodoo and begins a new life in Lagrimas as she waits for her son to show up there again.
She also has authored Innocence (2003) and The Wilderness: A Leslie Stone Novel (2004). She wrote the short story, Jackpot. Novak also worked as a copywriter, translator, and technical writer.
(When private investigator Leslie Stone's own thirteen-yea...)
2003(When the body of an elderly man is found naked, frozen to...)
2004(In 1889, Eleanor Bly flung herself from the tower of Five...)
2000(Nestled in a hidden valley, Lágrimas is the last stop for...)
2002Karen Novak is married and has two children.
