Author Description

Ten-year-old Benny imagines something shocking in the attic of his house; the silhouette of a man hanging from a rafter. He also imagines something disturbing in the apartment above his living room; a woman strangled to death lying disheveled on her sofa. Benny sets upon a ghostly investigation. Were people murdered in his home? Having visions of the dead no living child should see, Benny struggles with juvenile rawness in his searches, while he is besieged with sounds and images of adults who were murdered. His imagination ends and reality kicks in.<br/><br/>A chilling and touching story about youthful innocence and adult folklore, and those who didn't have either because they were killed before living full lives. Excelsior District is part childhood, part thriller and part tenderness with honesty. A child knows more than adults think he knows.