.Tamper
....A Novel
.....by  Bill Ectric
Tamper is about a boy named Whit who grows up in the
1960s obsessed with paranormal research, B-movies, and
strange noises drifting up from the basement of his parents'
house. By the mid-70s he is experimenting with drugs and
seeing a psychiatrist, trying to solve the mystery of his
obsession with the number 4. Whit and three friends meet a
reclusive mystery writer who hints that the answer may be
found in the ancient burial chambers under the island of
Malta.

“Engaging literary fiction with compelling characters, an interesting
plot with twists, and the skillful layering of several genres, including
history, mystery, and, in the case of Bill Ectric‘s novel
Tamper, also
a dab or two of the paranormal.” -
Claudia Moscovici, author of
Romanticism and Postromanticism and Velvet Totalitarianism
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