Night of the Seventh Darkness Author:Daniel Easterman Haitian-born Angelina Hammel lives in Brooklyn with her white ethnologist husband, who is murdered shortly after they return from a field trip to Zaire. When she discovers a collection of corpses beneath her living room floor, Lt. Reuben Abrams is assigned the case. Easterman's complex, far-ranging plot takes the two of them to bed and, afte... more »r a series of violent murders, to Haiti as semi-informed operatives of a secret alliance of U.S. government officials -- and as targets of a more powerful, high-ranking cabal. In that exotic setting, murders accrue -- during an ancient night-long ritual; on the sea floor as a hurricane rages; in a church -- leading to revelations about voodoo's sacred origins and a violent ending.« less