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Edgar D Jackson’s second novel The Secret Cuckoo Cabaret Club turns the horror genre on its head.
‘Cuckoo Cove is a gay town. But there are no gay towns in America.’
Sara knows that better than anyone. She’s a thirty year old transgender performer who spends her days being heckled both on and off the stage. But when she discovers the secret Cuckoo Cabaret Club, her outlook on life starts to change.
Serving as an underground haven for the alienated and excluded, the club is unlike anything Sara has ever known — a hotbed of inclusion, dancing, fireworks, and unrequited ecstasy.
It’s like a dream, but outside this dream, the world is turning into a nightmare.
The body of a young gay singer has been found on the shores of Cuckoo Cove, and Sara’s brother, Officer Gaten Dalbret, has been handed the case.
As a shadow falls upon the town, Sara and Gaten must figure out which secrets have been revealed, and which remain hidden. But can they discover the truth before the mirrorball breaks and the party is over?
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THE SECRET CUCKOO CABARET CLUB
Edgar D Jackson’s first novel Seeing Dead dives into the dark, eerie world of Gealblath, a fictional town in East Scotland.
It was on a foggy day in 1988 that Charlie Cooper made his way to the bus stop for the last time.
Ten years have passed since then and what remains is a town scarred by faded missing person posters. An empty seat in the local police station. A father who has become an unwanted ghost, sipping cold ones in the corner of a woodland tavern.
And apart from that, there is a girl. Amee Florence is thirteen, with mousy hair and a cool, pale complexion. She’s starting her first day at school, but she’s nothing like the other children. There’s a secret behind her eyes that she keeps hidden. A secret that could help unfog that day in 1988, and reveal the real reason Charlie Cooper never came home.
Seeing Dead is out now in paperback and ebook!