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Join us in person on Wednesday, June 14 at 7 PM as Jeremy Bushnell presents his new novel, Relentless Melt. He will be joined in conversation by Christopher Boucher.
Stranger Things meets the Golden Age of Detective fiction in a rollicking supernatural detective thriller that introduces Artie Quick, a sales assistant at Filene’s in Boston, who moonlights as an amateur detective.
The year is 1909, and Artie Quick—an ambitious, unorthodox and inquisitive young Bostonian—wants to learn about crime. By day she holds down a job as a salesgirl in women’s accessories at Filene’s; by night she disguises herself as a man to pursue studies in Criminal Investigation at the YMCA's Evening Institute for Younger Men.
Eager to put theory into practice, Artie sets out in search of something to investigate. She's joined by her pal Theodore, an upper-crust young bachelor whose interest in Boston's occult counterculture has drawn him into the study of magic. Together, their journey into mystery begins on Boston Common—where the tramps and the groundskeepers swap rumors about unearthly screams and other unsettling anomalies—but soon Artie and Theodore uncover a series of violent abductions that take them on an adventure from the highest corridors of power to the depths of an abandoned mass transit tunnel, its excavation suspiciously never completed.
Will Theodore ever manage to pull off a successful spell? Is Artie really wearing that men's suit just for disguise or is there something more to it? And what chance do two mixed-up young people stand up against the greatest horror Boston has ever known, an ancient, deranged evil that feeds on society's most vulnerable?
Jeremy P. Bushnell is the author of three novels published by Melville House, The Weirdness(2014), The Insides (2016), and Relentless Melt. Each of them is about magical claptrap, diabolical villainy, and ordinary human confusion. He is also the author of a newsletter, the Wednesday Investigations.
He lives in Dedham, MA and teaches writing at Northeastern University in Boston.
Christopher Boucher is the author of the novels How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, Golden Delicious and Big Giant Floating Head (a 2019 Massachusetts Book Award Fiction Honors
selection), all out from Melville House. He is also the editor of Jonathan Lethem's More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers and the managing editor of Post Road Magazine.
Chris lives in Northampton and teaches writing and literature at Boston College.
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