Bøger af Laura Matthias Bendoly

Laerka is Southern Gothic adventure in which a teen rescue party takes on a Russian crime ring that has been selling girls to night clubs in Savannah, Georgia. One particular victim, Laerka, is a Danish girl who transforms into a mermaid when in water. The crime boss who masterminds the trafficking morphs into a "vodyanoy" dragon when he hunts girls for the skin trade. Sixteen-year-old Stella Delaney, a Savannah local, finds Vodyanoy's first victim floating face down in the marsh. Can she save Learka from this fate or is the foreign beauty a criminal, herself? She and the traffickers share the same prison tattoo. Who in this forbidding landscape can be trusted?

Something is haunting the Rutherford Estate, the feudal Scottish community where Eileen Morgan spends her sixteenth summer. Fife county is a usually a quiet location, but lately, locals have been experiencing freak accidents -- stampeding by bull and falling to their deaths in the North Sea. The inheritance of the estate is now in question. Will it disappear into a tax shelter, will it go to the fawning butler, or to shy Ewan Stalker, the estranged Rutherford grandson? Eileen must choose who to help in this controversy, and she must choose right lest she, herself, be gored by the bull or chased down a mine shaft by the resident ghost.

"This book contains forty examples of Laura Matthias Bendoly's recent photographs, along with an introduction explaining the history of her engagement with the art and some elucidating notes adjacent to the photographs themselves. As the book was in progress, she asked her father, the poet John Matthias, if he would like to contribute a few short poems to enter into dialogue with her images. This he has done, producing some work quite untypical of poetry in his recent books, but compatible with the photographs he has chosen to write for. ("For," rather than necessarily "about.) Bendoly's photographs make an excellent introduction to her work as a photographer. She is also a writer, having published three novels: The Estate (2015), Laerka (2017) and The Peddler of Wisdom (2018)"--