Monique Jacob – författare

Phineas Marshal has spent a lifetime trying to forget the dark secret that binds him to Cricket Lake. Now he’s back to claim an unexpected inheritance that brings friendship, a renewed purpose and the strangest job he’s ever had. Fortune telling wasn’t on his resume but the locals and tourists love their new hippy witch doctor. BUT... An ancient force has awakened and noticed the new arrival. It’s filling his dreams with promises and threats. Can he resist the sweet taste of power long enough to save Cricket Lake? Phineas is desperate to protect his new friends but they may be his only weapon against a rising tide of long-slumbering magic.

The Trimble brothers have terrorized Riley Mason since fifth grade. High school hasn’t changed anything. He makes a deal with them but then takes an angry risk that backfires. When they ambush Riley and his dog there’s no escape, and Lulu may not survive the vicious beating. Riley needs help to save her but alien abduction isn’t the rescue he had in mind. Now Riley and Lulu are on a journey through space and time. They’re desperate to get home and their would-be rescuers are just as eager to be rid of them. But on a ship full of exotic creatures, Riley is the alien and one thing is soon made clear - bullies come in all shapes and species.

When celebrated journalist Tobias Greer spends a summer in Cricket Lake to write his memoirs, he reveals a secret that may tarnish his heroic image. He’s determined to bare all, but his presence may distract Phineas Marshal’s vigilant watch over the dark force that haunts the tiny community. Mabel Berkeley believes that good intentions can conquer any evil. Her plan is to fight magic with magic. Voodoo isn’t the only tool in her bag of tricks but it’s her current favourite. Voodoo Mystery Tour is a tale of small-town quirkiness, unsung heroes and dark mystery. Drop in to Voodoo Café for a cup of tea and a psychic reading. Book a night at the Couch & Cot. Stay for the Mystery Tour weekend retreat.

Volume V deals with the problems of turnover in the nervous system. "Turnover" is defined in different ways, and the term is used in different contexts. It is used rather broadly in the present volume, and intentionally so. The turnover of macromolecules is only one aspect; here "turnover" in­ dicates the simultaneous and coordinated formation and breakdown of macromolecular species. The complexities of cerebral protein turnover are shown in a separate chapter dealing with the synthesis of proteins, in another on breakdown, and in still another on the relationship of these two (showing how the two halves of turnover are controlled). The fact that most likely the two halves of protein turnover, synthesis and breakdown, are separated spatially and the mechanisms involved are different further emphasizes the complexity of macromolecular turnover. "Turnover" is used in a different context when the turnover of a cycle is discussed; but here again a number of complex metabolic reactions have to be interrelated and controlled; some such cycles are discussed briefly in this volume, additional cycles have been discussed with metabolism, and some cycles still await elucidation or discovery.

Volume V deals with the problems of turnover in the nervous system. "Turnover" is defined in different ways, and the term is used in different contexts. It is used rather broadly in the present volume, and intentionally so. The turnover of macromolecules is only one aspect; here "turnover" in­ dicates the simultaneous and coordinated formation and breakdown of macromolecular species. The complexities of cerebral protein turnover are shown in a separate chapter dealing with the synthesis of proteins, in another on breakdown, and in still another on the relationship of these two (showing how the two halves of turnover are controlled). The fact that most likely the two halves of protein turnover, synthesis and breakdown, are separated spatially and the mechanisms involved are different further emphasizes the complexity of macromolecular turnover. "Turnover" is used in a different context when the turnover of a cycle is discussed; but here again a number of complex metabolic reactions have to be interrelated and controlled; some such cycles are discussed briefly in this volume, additional cycles have been discussed with metabolism, and some cycles still await elucidation or discovery.