Requiem for Thursday

Semi-Finalist in the 2020 Booklife Prize Literary Contest

Do you believe in ghosts?

Requiem for Thursday is a clever thriller that blurs the lines between life and death.

Detective Eilert Weiss is investigating what appears to be a suicide when he is drawn to the diary of a mad woman, a local nurse by the name of Marcella Cole. Her name is painfully familiar to him. Weiss lost his wife and very nearly his sanity trying to bring the murderous woman to justice once before.

Puzzled by the crime scene, Weiss needs to get the timeline right, but the clues don’t add up and he can’t shake the feeling that there’s a diabolical cleverness behind the violence, mocking his attempt to make sense of it all. Cluttered shelves and piled-up keepsakes only obscure the sinister secrets of the room and deepen the lingering feeling of dread that looms in the air. To solve the crime, the detective must look outside the boundaries of standard police work—and what if the act of violence that took place in this room isn’t over?

Carly Rouhl, the daughter of famous author A.L. Rouhl finds herself a suspect, but she may hold the key to it all. Only Carly understands the dark and dangerous mind that died suddenly on that bitter, cold Thursday.

Douglas Cockell takes his readers on a suspense-filled ride in this masterfully constructed supernatural mystery. So, go ahead and grab your copy and settle in for a fascinating read. This may be the best new murder mystery of 2020.

“A knockout…

Cockell has a gift for clever, taut plotting, making the reader turn pages fast. Masterful characterization, clever plotting, expert writing, and a dash of supernatural mark this fine mystery. Readers looking for a thoroughly gripping paranormal mystery won’t be able to resist.” 

Prairies Book Review

“What Cockell has done is offer up a performance-a stage act, a magic show designed to inspire awe and shake us to the core. It is one hell of a show deserving of an enthusiastic standing ovation.” Peter Schneider Author of Sleeping Beauties.

Requiem for Mary Mac

Cockell rewards readers with another mind-twisting mystery.

Cecil Warden, Professor of Economics, thinks a hundred-year-old schoolhouse would make a good investment, but he knows nothing of the secrets it holds. Shadowy figures move there, suspended in time, witnesses to an unspeakable crime motivated by greed and fear. 

All your favourite characters return in Requiem for Mary Mac. Detective Eilert Weiss and his partner Prem Joshi follow the clues, unravelling decades of tragedy to uncover perverse and obsessive cruelty. It waits. And it knows. 

With so many ghosts disturbing her dreams, can Carly Rouhl save Detective Weiss from the terror that looms at the edges of her vision? Once again, Weiss has to trust his instincts—and Carly, the woman who dreams what others cannot see.

Go ahead and grab your copy, then settle in for another page-turning supernatural mystery by Douglas Cockell. This third book in the Requiem Series will take you on a spectacular ride. Filled with intrigue and mystery, Requiem for Mary Mac will have you hooked from the first page.