Richard Smiraldi, Author Releases Psychological Thriller:

Online, January 28, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Richard Smiraldi, Word Famous Mystery Writer and author of Seven Murders In Sussex, releases a psychological thriller: "Death And Disappearances." Death and Disappearances is a psychological thriller. Young, rich and promising novelist, Manhattanite, Montgomery Clark, "Mont." has had one un-successful book, and an interesting marriage to Petula Beaujolais, a Parisian artist he met while attending Columbia University. They'd been married about two years when life as they know it began to unravel. Petula was unhappy because Mont didn't take her career as an artist seriously. To make matters worse, Mont belongs to that elite class of first American families -to which Petula could not find acceptance. After a heated argument at a club function on Gramercy Park, Petula leaves their apartment at 2am in nothing but her sable coat and a pair of fuzzy pink slippers -never to be seen or heard from again. Did she go back to Paris to visit her twin sister at the asylum (Clarenton)? Where is she? Mont elicits the help of his friends Bea, and Peter. Bea discovers a cancerous lump on her throat and is advised by her psychic root worker to leave the country. While rushing to his parents' home in Westchester, Peter's Astin Martin careens off the cliffs of Bear Mountain and crashes into the Hudson River. With nowhere else to turn, Mont files a missing person's report with Detective, Draza Vicaru, (a first generation American of Slovakian descent and a Coney Island resident). Together, with the help of Bea's psychic and a little time travel, Mont uncovers the truth about the disappearance of Petula Beaujolais-Clark and the deaths that surround it. Strange things start to happen: Be a leaves town mysteriously after a meeting with her Root worker, Peter, Mont's best friend and Prep School buddy goes to find help and his car is found floating in the Hudson River. Alone Mont illicit the aid of Bea's psychic root worker, is she real, or a ghost from the past. She gives him the tools along with the assistance of Detective Draza Vicaru to find out the truth about Petula, her mysterious disappearance into the streets of New York City and the deaths that surround it.Chilling, gripping and suspenseful, this book promises to keep the reader at the edge of their seat.