The Dead Game is a horror mystery, located in modern America, and written in the third person. It is slightly florid in style, which is not my favourite manner, but this was not overly so and did not put me off reading it. The story begins in a small, northeastern, seaside town called Oasis, and specifically in an old mansion in the style of the colonial period called End House. The goings on could be likened to The Shining, just to give you a rough, but quick impression of the property.
The Dead Game is a story in which vampires of at least two types vie for association with human beings – one is malevolent and the other is more protective, although there are other types of creatures too – including a Saint! The older residents of Oasis have been aware of the conflict to a greater or lesser extent for a very long time, but newcomers are not so willing to put up with the status quo.
After a fantastic and very scary party at End House, the newcomers, led basically by Linda and Shana, and their would be beaux Todd and Sam, decide to get to the bottom of what is going on. This leads them and their associates through many trials and tribulations, which eventually produces a result positive enough to settle the population of the town and vicinity… or does it?
Susanne Leist does a very good job of creating this murderously horrific, vampire story with several twists. The cover is in keeping with the storyline, and it appears to have been professionally edited.
I thoroughly recommend The Dead Game to all those who are fond of the genre. I am sure that you will enjoy it.
Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis; in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup; and while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar a home-made concrete yacht, which was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker and an American aircraft carrier.
“I am a Celt, and we are romantic”, he said when asked about his writing style, “and I firmly believe in reincarnation, Karma and Fate, so, sayings like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around' are central to my life and reflected in my work. I write about what I see, or think I see, or dream... and, in the end it is all the same really”. He speaks seven languages and is learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of fifteen years.
His first novel, Daddy's Hobby is from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya', but his largest collection is 'The Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. He has written fifty novels and novelettes, including: Dead Centre; Andropov's Cuckoo; Fate Twister; The Disallowed (a philosophical comedy); Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audio books.
Owen Jones writes stories set in Wales, Spain and Thailand, where he now lives. He is a life-long Spiritualist, and this belief is interwoven, in a very realistic way, into many of his books and storylines. If you like a touch of the 'supernatural', try his books
He sums his life up thus: “Born in the Land of Song, Living in the Land of Smiles”.
