The myth of St. George-and-the-Dragon comes to new and provocative life in this literary thriller set in Milwaukee, on the shores of Lake Michigan.

A gifted young Shakespeare scholar is haunted by a tragic past, a right-wing Catholic cult, and recurring nightmares of a Knight, a Lady and a vicious Dragon. James Ireton thinks they’re just dreams, unconnected to the chaos of his waking life; but when two people close to him fall victim in a seemingly motiveless series of brutal murders, James discovers there may be a very modern sort of Dragon preying in the shadows of his life. Worse, if he doesn’t find a bit of St. George in himself, the woman he loves may prove the Dragon’s ultimate victim.
A mystery-thriller with Catholic and literary themes, The Mystery of Things was published in December 2004 by Idylls Press. It is the first book in Debra Murphy’s planned Ashland Grail Cycle, a series of novels inspired by Shakespeare, Arthurian romance, and the modern mystery thriller.Debra is working on the second book in the series, All the World’s a Stage, set in Ashland, Oregon, home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. No publication date has been set yet for the book.

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