The Obsession (The Truth Beauty Trilogy, Book 1)

The Obsession (The Truth Beauty Trilogy, Book 1)

“…both [The Obsession and Gone Girl] are pacy, gripping narratives about love grown monstrous and out of control.”--Victoria Best, Tales from the Reading RoomThe Obsession is a dark and edgy stalker romance filled with desire and deception and sparked by an erotic love triangle that shifts between the American Midwest and several legendary Italian locales. When Stan, an American grad student, falls for Lina, a lovely Italian scholar, his unrequited feelings become a perverse passion. When he stalks her from a mid-Michigan college town to Bologna’s ancient streets, they are joined by Lina’s American lover John, who is also Stan’s mentor. With jealousy and trust issues fueling fear and loathing, lies and lethal rage, these three brilliant academics match wits with their lives at stake as they flee and chase down the storied Italian boot to a shocking conclusion on beautiful slopes of volcanic Mt. Etna.“Alfred Hitchcock would have enjoyed directing this thriller about stalker Stan's psychopathy and victim Lina's plunge into fear, depression, and guilt. This is a novel that you either stay up all night to read or, like me, you'll have to walk away as the anxiety escalates, only to be called back by the need to know.”--Irene, GoodreadsFor more information: www.tvlocicero.com "The Obsession is not for the literary faint of heart...this is a powerful engaging story, one that followers of this particular genre would most likely enjoy." Charlene Mabie-Gamble Literary R&R "Gone Girl has had a huge impact on the book world since it came out… The Obsession by T. V. LoCicero will be unknown to most people…But both are pacy, gripping narratives about love grown monstrous and out of control…fascinating portraits of gender rancour, or the amazing ability men and women have to love and loathe each other with intensity. " Victoria Best (aka Litlove) Tales from the Reading Room "I found this book to be very exciting. I was hooked by the time I finished the first chapter. It is very well written, fast moving and suspenseful. A stalker who is truly deranged, a beautiful professor, lovers, and friends, what more could you ask for?" Barbara Juhl LibraryThing T.V. LoCicero has been writing both fiction and non-fiction across five decades. He's the author of the true crime books Murder in the Synagogue (Prentice-Hall) and Squelched. His novels include the romance When A Pretty Woman Smiles and the crime thrillers The Car Bomb and Admission of Guilt, the first two books in The detroit im dyin Trilogy, and The Obsession and The Disappearance, the first two in The Truth Beauty Trilogy. Eight of his shorter works are now available as ebooks. He has also published in various periodicals, including Commentary, Ms. and The University Review, and in the hard-cover collections Best Magazine Articles, The Norton Reader and The Third Coast. About his "checkered past" LoCicero says: "At one time or another I've found work as an industrial spy; a producer of concert videos for Rolling Stone's greatest singer of all time; one of the few male contributors to Gloria Steinem's Ms. Magazine; a writer of an appellate brief for those convicted in one of Detroit's most sensational drug trials; the author of a true crime book that garnered a bigger advance than a top ten best-selling American novel; a project coordinator/fundraiser for a humanities council; a small business owner; the writer/producer/director of numerous long-form documentaries; a golf course clerk; a college instructor who taught courses in advanced composition, music and poetry appreciation, introduction to philosophy, remedial English, and American Literature--all in the same term; a ghostwriter; a maker of corporate/industrial videos; a member of a highway surveying crew; a speechwriter for auto executives; a TV producer of live event specials; an editorial writer; the creator of 15-second corporate promos for the PBS series Nature; and a novelist. "There is a sense in which that last occupation was the reason for all the others. Almost anyone who's ever tried to make ends meet as a novelist knows what I'm talking about."