If you're a Chuck Palahniuk fan, this book won't disappoint.A reporter was asked to do a series on sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). During his investigation, he discovered a common denominator - a poem on page 27 of Poems and Rhymes around the World. Turns out its a culling song - an African chant to send of the dying and the infirm. Someone got wind of it and put it in a children's book, causing all these deaths. By reading or thinking of the culling song, anyone could kill anyone.
So, Carl Streator, together with Helen Hoover Boyle, a real estate agent for haunted houses, goes on a cross-country trip visiting libraries and homes to destroy all copies of this culling song. With them are Mona and Oyster, who later discovers that Helen's datebook is actually a grimoire -
a book of spells from which the culling song came from. Helen didn't know this because all the spells were written in invisible ink (and in different languages). Once Helen has finished translating all the spells, Mona swipes the grimoire from her and kills her off and her frozen child Patrick. Fortunately, Helen was able to use an occupation spell and take over the mind and body of a police sergeant. Together with Carl, they go on a witch hunt for Mona and Oyster, who are using the grimoire and its spell to perform strange and weird miracles around the country.
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