Yesterday's Crime

About this book

On souls that never rest.. and houses hiding more than mere walls. Can one escape one's past by merely changing one's address? This is what "Celine" thought when she moved with her husband "Omar" to that abandoned house in "the Silence District," searching for a new beginning and hope to mend her heart's fractures after losing her mother and successive losses. But house number (15) was no mere solid architectural building as her engineer husband saw it, but a living entity teeming with secrets not yet buried. The tale begins with a faint creaking upstairs, and a sewing machine turning slowly in the night's womb with no hand moving it, and whispers of men and women slipping through walls to tell Celine that "it will not avail." Between nightmares chasing her about a painful past, and a reality growing more mysterious with vague messages from a "ghost" trying to guide her toward a shocking truth, Celine finds herself trapped in a whirlwind of psychological terror. Is what she sees mere hallucinations from her pregnancy's disorder and her psychological weakness, or does the house own a terrifying memory refusing oblivion? In a literary style blending deep human drama and horror-literature suspense, Hala Mohamed El-Gamsi takes us on a journey inside the human psyche's labyrinths, where fear is not only of what appears behind closed doors, but of what dwells in our depths and demands we face it before it is too late. "Yesterday's Crime" is no mere horror novel, but a mirror reflecting a woman's struggle against loss, and her desperate search for serenity in a place that never knew peace's meaning.