Ten Crows for a Time of Joyous Bliss

Description:

The crows who protect Liverpool, Nova Scotia from evil are on edge. They can tell disruption is on the way long before their humans do. But their powers, though great, are limited. Will anyone survive book ten of the Crows series?

Brief description: Vernon Oickle was born and raised in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, where he continues to reside with his wife, Nancy, and their family. Growing up in a small, rural town, he had always wanted to pursue a career as a newspaper reporter. After completing high school in 1979, he attended Lethbridge Community College in Alberta. He graduated in 1982 with an honours diploma in Journalism and returned to Liverpool, where he worked at the local weekly newspaper, The Advance, for 13 years before becoming the editor of the Bridgewater Bulletin. His community newspaper career spanned 33 years. Vernon is an award-winning journalist and editor, and is the author of 48 books, many of which collect and preserve the heritage and culture of Atlantic Canada. His best-selling books include Ghost Stories of the Maritimes, Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia, The Nova Scotia Outstanding Outhouse Reader, Strange Nova Scotia, The Bluenosers' Book of Slang, Red Sky at Night, Forerunners: Harbingers of Death in Nova Scotia, Grandma's Home Remedies and The View from Here: South Shore essays. He also writes fiction in the popular "Crow" series, based on the old Maritime poem 'One Crow Sorrow.' In 2024, the seventh book in the series, Seven Crows for a Secret Yet to be Told, won an International Impact Book Award, taking first place in the Historical Mystery/Thriller category. In addition to his long list of newspaper awards, in 2012 Vernon received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, recognizing his contributions to his community, province and country; and in 2015 he received a Distinguished Alumni Award (Community Leader) from Lethbridge College. He was inducted into the Atlantic Journalism Awards Hall of Fame in the spring of 2020. As a testimony to his outstanding career, in 2014 the South Queens Middle School in Liverpool announced the creation of the Vernon Oickle Writer's Award, to be given annually to a student who excels in the art of writing, either fiction or nonfiction.

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Ten Crows for a Time of Joyous Bliss pulls you in with the intimacy of a small town and the slow, steady thrum of something not quite right beneath the surface. The familiar becomes unsettling in all the best ways. Oickle wraps humour around fear, warmth around danger, and community around chaos. He invites you to lean in close, to care deeply about the characters, and feel the dread as the story inches toward the edge. Expect to laugh. To shiver. To stare out the window at the nearest treetop. Spoiler Alert: You will never look at your cat the same way again.

A brilliantly executed suspense thriller that keeps you turning the pages until the shocking conclusion. The novels in this series just keep getting better and better and this is truly the best one yet!

From spiders and dogs to people at large-everyone is acting unnaturally, while the all-knowing crows observe it all. Oickle's dystopian tale will leave your heart racing as you turn the pages to discover what horrors will be next unleashed. A harrowing tale that keeps you turning the page for more of what could happen during a solar eclipse. Just hope that when this comes to pass that the crows are on your side.