The Lost Chord

Ian Thomas 

"…fast-moving, plot-twisting thriller… also an aspiring novel of ideas, in which the writer… chastises religious intolerance…and envisions in detail a ‘life after life’… Ian Thomas has created a fascinating world and a worthy pageturner for a winter's night."

- Peter Feniak, The Globe & Mail

 

"…Thomas finds himself in The Lost Chord… a perfect combination of musical notes… to send a spirit to the heavens… a portal to another world or spiritual parallel… gothic thriller in a Da Vinci Code sense... confronting all the big issues – religion, spirituality, love, death, life and the reasons for our very existence…"

- Graham Rockingham, The Hamilton Spectator

Title: The Lost Chord
Author: Ian Thomas
Softcover ISBN 978-1-978453-14-8 / $24.95 US/CDN
Hardcover ISBN 978-1-897453-58-2 / $39.95 US/CDN
Fiction: Novel (New Age, Mind, Body, Spirit)
Page Count: 384
US/Canada/World: Ingram / UK : Gazelle

 

 

https://www.amazon.ca/Lost-Chord-Ian-Thomas/dp/1897453094

"Ian Thomas's Lost Chord is a metaphysical nail-biter... kept me engaged emotionally and intellectually without food or drink for about 20 hours... unusual and thought-provoking... deserves huge attention from readers with a taste for unconventional thinking..."

- Mag Ruffman, The Globe & Mail

 

The Lost Chord is the eagerly awaited second novel by singer-songwriter-author Ian Thomas. With a storyline that crosses into the realm of the otherworldly, The Lost Chord is certain to captivate the reading public with a compelling story of murder and madness, ancient secrets and modern day intrigue. The Lost Chord is an incredible journey into the uncharted waters that reside on the other side of physical existence. To return to an earthly plane from such a journey is to face the daunting struggle of learning to live with a knowledge no human being should possess. In 1847, a Franciscan monk, stumbles on a musical means facilitating consciousness leaving the body. The problem is… getting back! Not only does his work place many lives in jeopardy in his own time, but when his manuscript surfaces in 1989 the trouble begins all over again. There is a good reason why some of the greatest minds from Plato to Shakespeare have pondered the spiritual nature of music.

 

Ian Thomas, singer/songwriter of such smash hits as Painted Ladies; Hold On, and Right Before Your Eyes, (plus songs written for America, Chicago, Manfred Mann, Santana, etc.) arrived on the literary scene in 2006 with the release of his bestselling debut novel Bequest relating the story of a professor beset with visions of dire things past, present and future; of death and tragedy and dark secrets hidden in the American countryside. Hailed by the Toronto Sun as a "gripping page-turner," Bequest won the author a wide audience. Bestseller The Lost Chord went into a 2nd printing – further evidence of the Thomas touch.