In this thrilling novel with clever twists and turns, four characters—a graduate student, her professor, his wife, and her priest—spin out of control in a world where science and religion are in constant conflict. A priest of the modern Roman Inquisition arrives in a New England college town to investigate allegations of child abuse by the local parish priests who have suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. Soon the town is rocked by murder, a tense trial and the escape of a lethal rabies virus. A critically acclaimed cross-genre literary-thriller not to be missed.
“This is a novel quite unlike most standard commercial fare, a genre-bending story—part thriller, part literary slapdown, with dialogue as the weapon of choice. Kenyon is definitely a keeper.” —STARRED REVIEW, Booklist
“Jealousy and anger erupt in murder, a tense jury trial and the discovery of a lethal, lab-cultivated aerosol rabies virus. An impressive medical thriller.”—Publishers Weekly
LOGLINE In T K Kenyon’s RABID, a sexy, savvy, darkly funny tale of ambition, scandal, forbidden love and murder, science and religion collide with far reaching consequences. Nothing is sacred.
CHOICE REVIEW "...jealousy and anger erupt in murder, a tense jury trial and the discovery of a lethal, lab-cultivated aerosol rabies virus...Kenyon manages to rein her characters in nicely at the conclusion of this...impressive medical thriller." Publishers Weekly Read full review...
SYNOPSIS Publisher's Weekly Review Synopsis: "When a New England woman discovers her research scientist husband is cheating, she appeals to the clergy for guidance and unleashes high drama that pits religion against science in Kenyon's heated debut novel. After finding pink panties in husband Conroy's suitcase, Bev Sloan seeks spiritual guidance from young replacement clergyman Dante (parish priest Father Nicolai has disappeared after allegations of sexual misconduct).
"Heavy-handed marriage counseling sessions and a few innocent dinners with Bev lead Dante, smitten with lust for Bev and battling a drinking problem, into a crisis of faith. Meanwhile, Conroy takes a mad scientist turn in his campaign for a promotion. Bev and Dante's courtship unleashes some serious bodice-ripping, and when Conroy remains unrepentant about his dalliances, jealousy and anger erupt in a murder, a tense jury trial and the discovery of a lethal, lab-cultivated aerosol rabies virus."
RABID is written with biting intelligence, lush eroticism and black humour as it takes bull’s-eye aim at the over-heated world of competitive scientific research and a Catholic Church prepared to go to any lengths to clean up its image.
Kenyon’s characters — the priest, the professor, the grad student, the housewife — play off each other with witty, sophisticated dialogue that will leave readers wanting more.
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"Rabid is a solid good read by first time novelist TK Kenyon, a gifted writer who as crafted a book of such mystery that you find yourself, at midnight, on the edge of your seat, asking 'What's next? What's next?'" Thom Jones, National Book Award winning author of The Pubilist, at Rest, Cold Snap, Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine
"Rabid is a biopsy of our heated emotions and troublesome philosophies." J.C. Hallman, author of The Chess Artist
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FIC000000 FICTION/General Pages 480 ISBN 978-1-60164-002-4 EAN 9781601640024 LCCN 2006930189 Spring 2007 Kunati Cloth Hardcover USA and International Distribution: Independent Publishers Group (IPG) Canadian Distribution: Canadian Manda Group*
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T K Kenyon TK Kenyon graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with an MFA in fiction (Truman Capote Fellowship, Thesis Advisor: James Alan McPherson) and took the weekend off before starting a PhD in molecular virology.
After a stint as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease at the University of Pennsylvania CNDR (Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Reasearch) creating in vitro models of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other maladies, TK turned to writing full-time.
As a scientist, TK published five scholarly papers in prestigious, peer-reviewed journals and numerous non-fiction pieces, including a thrice-weekly newspaper column, Science for Non-Majors.
Seven short fiction pieces have been published in journals, such as the Monacacy Valley Review, the Banyan Review, Big Muddy, A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley (Southeast Missouri State Univ., Spring, 2005) and New York Stories (Jan/Feb, 2005), and one of the stories won the Alsop Review Summer Fiction Contest (2003).
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