Finalist, The Best Thriller Book Awards 2021:

“Hell is in Me is one of the year’s top thrillers and is a must-read for horror and paranormal thriller fans.”

A Paranormal Mystery/Thriller

A deranged dead man latches on to the only person who can help him escape his torturous earthbound existence, but he may kill the boy in the process.

“I used to think I was in hell. Now I know hell is in me.”

     Small town secrets can't stay buried when a disturbed dead man pesters an unwilling teenage medium in this off-the-wall paranormal thriller.

     Sprinkled generously with black humor, teenage angst, deep characterizations, and an “I didn’t see that coming” twist, Hell is in Me is a satisfyingly wild ride for the aficionado of paranormal suspense literature.

Readers Say:

"What a story teller, the author had me at the first page all the way to the climatic ending."

"I couldn't put it down."

"...will keep you guessing and wondering."

"The characters and story sucked me in and wouldn't let go."

"This is writing at its finest."

"A genre-bending mystery that straddles the boundaries of time and space."

"A literary marvel haunted by the cold and fiery dead."

“What a ride! I’m recommending this book to everyone!”

“I’d highly recommend HELL IS IN ME, this is a fantastic thriller. Realistic and very likeable characters; a story line that is part ghost story but also has an underlying paranormal mystery to it and has just as many twists and turns as a roller coaster ride has and is just as exciting.”

“This book deserves more readers.”

Colleen A. Parkinson is an award-winning playwright and novelist living in Redding, California. She embarked upon a writing career at age nine, when she contributed a serialized detective series for her elementary school newspaper. After spending her teenage years honing her craft with short stories, one-act plays, poetry, and two extremely awful novels she wisely tossed in the trash bin, the theater bug bit her in college and she performed in many community theater productions, in addition to writing for the stage. Her first full-length play, "The Injured Child," consistently attracted SRO audiences during its premiere run and has since won three awards. Her one-act play, "Waiting for the Train," also won a theatrical award, and was later produced as a short film. Her first published novel, "The Finest Hat in the Whole World," another award-winner, has been praised for its lyricism, realistic characters and captivating story. Her second published novel, "Hell Is In Me," is a character-driven supernatural mystery about a harried teenage boy stalked by a psychotic dead man accused of murder.