Mailbox Monday

Just one this week, a present to myself from my Christmas money from amazon.com:

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest.  In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.

But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.

Related articles by Zemanta

• Timothy Egan, Cherie Priest winners of Pacific Northwest Booksellers awards (seattletimes.nwsource.com)