The Winnetka Road series by J.S. Sheridan (#1-4)
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Overview: J.S. Sheridan grew up in Wilmette and Winnetka in the 60’s and 70’s and studied English Literature at the University of Chicago. She worked in downtown Chicago for many years, married, retired and moved to a warmer climate. Although Winnetka Road is not a roman à clef, portions were inspired by her experiences of non-ordinary reality on Chicago’s North Shore. She returns now and then to visit family and drive those old familiar streets remembering when.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Winnetka Road
It’s the Swinging Sixties and Paul and Cellina Farrell are the “it” couple on Chicago’s North Shore. He’s handsome, rich and just made partner at his father-in-law’s white-shoe law firm. She’s beautiful, brilliant and leads the crowd in all things fashion, design and elegance. They live in a mansion on Winnetka Road with their baby girl, Simone. Their life is picture perfect. But all is not as it seems. There is something dark and unnatural beneath Paul’s smooth exterior. Cellina doesn’t notice. She’s too busy with her constant renovations of the mansion and trips to Paris, Palm Beach and Percocet. Their friends don’t notice. They’re blinded by the Farrell good looks, money and standing in society. But the baby nurse sees. And little Simone. Façades are beginning to crack at the big house on Winnetka Road.
Winnetka Road 2
Paul has no idea the gray muck has found a home in the Farrell mansion. He’s too busy at his law office during the day and frequenting the streetwalkers on North Avenue at night. Cellina has no idea. The once great beauty is oblivious to the years going by as she lounges in her bedroom taking meds every day, spraying herself with Lemon Pledge and talking to her Fannie May Chocolates. Simone is growing up fast and is terrified of the baffling gray matter. She has no clue as to what it is or how to get rid of it. The only one who might understand is her nemesis, Claire Ruane, who has developed the ability to see and remove negative energy. But Claire is having a difficult time, too. Her incipient supernatural abilities may not be powerful enough to take on the kind of spirits her father brings home.
Winnetka Road 3
It’s Christmas Eve, 1973, and Paul and Cellina Farrell are in Paris for the holiday. They think Simone is vacationing with her friend’s family in Florida. But Simone didn’t go to Florida. She didn’t go anywhere. She sits alone in the great room of the dark mansion on Winnetka Road. She has big plans for the night with the row of prescription bottles on the table beside her—narcotics she ordered from the pharmacy in her mother’s name. She’s done with the nightly assaults of the gray. She’s done feeling powerless and living in despair. She’s done with life. As she looks out upon the beautiful snow-covered landscape behind the house, slowly taking pills and listening to The Moody Blues, she sees a figure dart across the yard, stop and fall into the snow. Simone stands and cautiously walks to the window for a better look. The final reckoning with the gray has begun.
Winnetka Road 4
It’s 1977 and Claire Ruane and Simone Farrell have put the traumas of Winnetka Road behind them. Simone sings with a jazz trio at the fabulous Chicago Regent Hotel on East Lake Shore Drive now and lives with her grandfather in his downtown condo. Claire studies at the University of Chicago and lives with her newly-divorced father at Lake Point Tower. Cellina Farrell has just been released from the mental health facility she’d been remanded to since her conviction for murdering her husband. And they’re all going to reunite with James Devon for Thanksgiving at the penthouse condo he bought on the ocean in Florida. He can’t wait to have his girls all together again under the same roof. Neither can Paul Farrell. Although, wait…isn’t he dead?
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