From Black Rooms

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name = From Black Rooms
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image_caption = 2006 paperback
author = Stephen Woodworth
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country = United States
language = English
series = Violets
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genre = Science fiction/Crime novel
publisher = Bantam Books
release_date = October 31, 2006
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 368 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-440-24253-3
preceded_by = In Golden Blood
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"From Black Rooms" is the fourth science-fiction alternate history novel by Stephen Woodworth featuring the "Violet" detective Natalie Lindstrom. It was written in 2006, and released on Halloween (October 31).

Plot summary

Natalie Lindstrom has finally left the underworld behind for a new career in the art world. But there’s one world she can’t escape: the Other world of the dead. As a former Violet, an elite crime-fighter with the power to channel murder victims, Natalie is now using her paranormal gift to summon the spirits of legendary painters. But she’s about to discover how far some people will go to keep their hold on her — and others like her. A deadly man from her past has escaped from prison, and he’s been made an offer he can’t refuse: Natalie. But first he must help contact a deceased geneticist whose most intriguing experiment was brutally interrupted: an attempt to manufacture Violets.

To protect her young daughter and herself, Natalie must search for the scientist’s only living test subject — a handsome but tortured artist to whom she is dangerously attracted. For he is caught in the grip of two opposing forces, one that wants his survival, another that wants him — and anyone connected with him — destroyed. ( [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0440242533 1] )