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Heat meets The Sixth Sense in The Shimmer, a classic suspense with a genre-blending element by Carsten Stroud, author of the New York Times bestselling true crime account Close Pursuit. Carsten Stroud's The Shimmer is a high-octane thriller laced with humor and a smattering of supernatural genre-bending. Set in Florida now and during the fifties, it focuses on two families, one headed by a cop, one by a forensic anthropologist, whose lives are irrevocably changed when they cross paths with a beautiful, seductive stranger. That stranger turns out to be a cunning, time-traveling female serial killer who craves to bathe in the shimmering afterglow that sometimes emanates when the soul leaves the body. It also provides her a way to slip into the past so she can right a wrong.