Today I am kicking off the Head Games by Erika Rummel Tour.

 Book Description:

Publisher: Guernica Editions; 1st edition (April 30, 2013)
Category: Literary Fiction, Adventure, Suspense
Tour Date: September, 2013
ISBN: 978-1550716870
Available in: Print & pdf,  200Pages
Argentina, 1979.  Life has gone stale on Jim, an expat working in Catamarca. Everything is predictable until he meets Lisa. She has the starry eyes, the sensuous lips, and the tango steps that make all rational assumptions go away.  Jim gives her top marks for animation but there is a flashing beacon at the end of his tip sheet: Danger. Lisa is a little too intense, a little too crazy, a woman with too many scenes playing in her head.
That doesn’t faze Santos, a curandero looking for a medium to channel the spirits of the dead and attract his lost sister. He lures Lisa to his compound in northern Argentina, where she becomes a pawn in a deadly family feud. Jim goes in search of Lisa. Tracking her down turns into a double mission — delivering Lisa from her captors and himself from the confining routine of his life.
It takes a fantastic journey through rugged back country for Jim to realize how much he loves Lisa.  The story unfolds against the background of a country in the grip of a military junta. It is a place where kidnapping, violence, and death no longer make headlines, a place where you learn survival skills.
My Thoughts:
Lisa has some problems.  She is seeing a psychologist and doesn’t know who her real father is.  She frequents a bar where she meet Don, many years her senior.  She confides in him all of her problems and he insinuates himself into her life.  She looks at him like a kind of father figure but he has other views on their relationship.
When Lisa meets Jim, sparks fly but are they meant to be?  Then, there is Santos who claims to be a medium who can channel spirits.  Is he a fraud or can he help Lisa figure out who her real father is and if he is alive?
This is a well written book with the back drop of the seedier parts of Toronto, Ontario, in Canada and Argentina.  The characters are very inventive and quirky. Everyone knows how much I love quirky characters!  There was a small part that I found dragged on a bit however, the suspense is unique, a breath of fresh air.  I certainly want to pick up Erika Rummel’s first book, Playing Naomi.  I recommend Head Games to literary thriller lovers who like some suspense.  
4/5
I accepted an ebook copy for my honest review.
About Erika Rummel:

Erika Rummel was awarded a Random House Creative Writing Award in 2011. She is the author of more than a dozen non-fiction  books (social history, biography, translation) and two novels, Playing Naomi (2009) and Head Games (2013).
Erika came to Canada from Vienna and obtained a doctorate from the University of Toronto. She divides her time between Toronto and Los Angeles, but has also lived in small villages in Argentina, Romania, and Bulgaria.
Playing Naomi has been praised as a wry comedy “reminiscent of the corrosive but jovial cynicism of media satires like The Larry Saunders Show and The Newsroom” (Cynthia Sugars in University of Toronto Quarterly).
Erika Rummel’s Website: www.erikarummel.com 
Erika Rummel’s Blog: www.rummelsincrediblestories.blogspot.com
Thanks to the author, Erika Rummel, we will be giving away one print copy of Head Games. There will be an additional opportunity to win on another website during the tour and as always, lots of opportunity for extra entries.  This giveaway is is open internationally.  A U.S. or Canadian winner will have the choice of print or ebook.  International, ebook only.  This giveaway ends on November 26, 2013.  Please use Rafflecopter to enter.

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