T.I.M. Wirkus | A Bad Deal in Mormon Land

Join us for a Utah gothic book event! We are thrilled to host author, T.I.M. Wirkus for their new book, A Bad Deal in Mormon Land. This is a ticketed event and will take place at The King's English Bookshop. Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the event. You may also pre-order your signed copy to be picked up at the event by either calling the store at 801-484-9100 or ordering online. If you cannot make this event, signed copies may be ordered from our website. Places in the signing line are reserved for those who have purchsed a book from The King's English. About the book: Sometimes things are not as they appear, especially when religion, magic and shady dealings mix. It's 1908, and itinerant spirit medium Madame Ilsa von Hoffmann is at the end of her professional rope, facing down two unappealing options: join an ill-conceived commune founded by some fellow trans ex-vaudevillians, or take on a high-paying but mysterious job offered by a religious extremist in Salt Lake City. Madame Ilsa opts for Utah and the employ of one Roger Marsh who, it turns out, wants her to summon the ghost of Joseph Smith, Mormonism's founder, to give his blessing to Marsh's fledgling offshoot of the mainstream church. Unsure how she'll pull off this near-impossible task, Ilsa finds an ally in Francie Bream, an East Coast journalist in town to profile Mormon women at the dawn of the twentieth century. Bream's motives remain obscure to Ilsa, though she begins to suspect the journalist has an agenda far more sinister than she could have imagined. Complicating the situation further are an inept and volatile henchman, a relentlessly orthodox Mormon apostle, a copper magnate with a fetish for polygamists, Marsh's rogue third wife, and a vengeful private investigator from Ilsa's past. As dead bodies accumulate around her, Madame Ilsa worries less and less about saving her career, and more about making it out of Salt Lake City alive.