(To learn more about my "blogging the book" challenge to myself, go HERE.)
Edgar award winning author Naomi Hirahara lives in Southern California but is no stranger to Santa Cruz County, and sets one of her Detective Mas Arai novels in Watsonville, where she has a family history. In fact, she told me at the Skyline Books event in L.A. that she considered making her contribution to the anthology a Mas Arai story. Although I'm sure fans would have loved that, I am glad she decided to do a stand alone, because this way she was able to bring us yet another facet of Santa Cruz County, that of the religious camps in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Not all such camps are Christian, but the Christian camps have a long history up in this forested region. I had never heard that there was something so delightfully specific as a Japanese-American Christian camp, but apparently up around Mt. Hermon this is so.
If you're born again, you can't be demon-possessed," Wendy assured them. "The Devil has no hold on you. Wendy, always the good cabin leader,was steady and calm.
"But you can be oppressed," Rachel said.
"What does that mean?" a Lukewarm asked.
"That a demon can attach to you," Karen said."They can't take over, but they can still bother you. They can enter through a weak spot."
Audible sample of Naomi Hirahara's "Possessed" can be found HERE.
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