Marianne Germain

Roachville Marianne Germain

Translator Annika Roy is bored with life and just going through the motions. When a mysterious artifact comes crashing into her lonely existence, she has to interact with the outside world again. But there's danger there and Annika has to decide who she can trust: Handsome but shady Kenneth Tann, hellbent on an obsessive quest or a mysterious Laotian mother-daughter duo and their two aborigine bodyguards?A dangerous cat and mouse game follows as Annika finds herself weaved into the destiny of bizarre characters. If you like Haruki Murakami's novels, you'll love this journey from the mundane to the weird-on a road with twists, turns, and more than a few bumps