Krance Publishing Announces the Release of "The Laws of Attraction"

    NEW YORK, NY, November 05, 2014 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The Laws of Attraction, Howard Reiss' third novel, is now available for purchase as an e-book at Barnes & Noble, Amazon and iTunes, and in paperback at Amazon.

At 88-years old Ben Everett is killed by a loose truck tire that smashes into his windshield and his grieving family soon discovers that he has left his multi-million dollar estate to his new 24-year old wife, Susannah McCreedy. When the marriage and the will are challenged in court, Susannah claims to be the reincarnation of Ben's first wife, Rose. This quickly hits the national wires and the small town of New City is turned into a circus with reporters, demonstrators, believers and non-believers jeering at each other across from the steps of the courthouse, and the trial takes on biblical proportions with testimony from an academic expert on reincarnation. A no nonsense judge, two zealous attorneys, including one who was himself the child of a May-December marriage, an old friend of Rose's, Ben's three sons, a small town jury and an old-time private investigator who scours the country searching for Susannah's past make for a rather unusual and somewhat comical trial to determine whether or not there is indeed life after death.

Howard Reiss' second novel, The Year of Soup, published in 2012, is about a troubled woman who opens a soup restaurant in a small New England college town. It received the Silver Medal for Best Fiction in the North-East Region at the Independent Publisher Book Awards in 2013.

Howard Reiss' first novel, A Family Institution, published in 2011, is based on a true incident involving the discovery of an aunt he didn't know existed who spent most of her life in Pilgrim State Hospital. It treats the serious problems of the way the mentally ill were treated back in the 30s, 40s and 50s with a comic touch and was a finalist in the 2012 IndieReader Discovery Awards.

The Midwest Book Review calls Howard Reiss "an especially gifted storyteller with a knack for creating fully developed characters and original storylines that engage the readers complete attention from first page to last." Both of Howard's novels have received positive reviews from many organizations, including Midwest Book Review and Indie Reader.

Howard Reiss is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Columbia Law School. He won writing prizes at both institutions, but confined his creative energies for the first 25 years after graduation to designing greeting cards and writing songs for his wife and daughters. He helped found a soup kitchen in Nyack, New York where he lives and runs, and supports book publishers by buying more books than he can possibly find the time to read.

The Laws of Attraction
Howard Reiss
Softcover, pgs 342, ISBN 978-0990806202,
E-Book, ISBN 978-0990806219
Publication Date: October 6, 2014

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