From Black Rooms is the fourth science-fiction alternate history novel by Stephen Woodworth featuring the "Violet" detective Natalie Lindstrom. It was written in 2006, and released on Halloween (October 31).
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Natalie Lindstrom has finally left the underworld behind for a new career in the art world. As a former Violet, an elite crime-fighter with the power to channel murder victims, Natalie is now using her paranormal gift to summon the spirits of legendary painters. A deadly man from her past has escaped from prison, and he is being targeted against Natalie. But first he must help contact a deceased geneticist whose most intriguing experiment was brutally interrupted: an attempt to manufacture Violets.
To protect her young daughter and herself, Natalie must search for the scientist’s only living test subject — a handsome but tortured artist to whom she is dangerously attracted. For he is caught in the grip of two opposing forces, one that wants his survival, another that wants him — and anyone connected with him — destroyed.[1]
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| The Violet series novels: |
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Scary Monsters (1992 novella)
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"Relaxation" (1994) • "a Woman Absent" (1995) • "Keepers of the Light" (1996) • "Purple Hearts and Other Wounds" (1996) • "Serial Killers" (1998 vignette) • "Her" (1999) • "Street Runes" (2000) • "Jack's Hand" (2000) • "Transubstantiation" (2000) • "Because It is Bitter" (2001) • "the Little Nightmusic That Could" (2002) • "Prisoners" (2004)
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