Alexandra Sokoloff Shares Her Book, The Unseen
On UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch, Sunday, November 1, at 5 PM

In Alexandra Sokoloff’s latest thriller The Unseen we meet Laurel MacDonald, a young California psychology professor who decides to get a fresh start working at Duke University after experiencing a precognitive dream that changes her life forever. At Duke, MacDonald soon becomes obsessed with the long-buried files from the world-famous Rhine parapsychology experiments, which attempted to prove if ESP really exists.

Along with another charismatic professor, she uncovers disturbing reports, including a mysterious case of a house supposedly haunted by a poltergeist, investigated by another research team in 1965. The two professors and two exceptionally gifted Duke students move into the grand, abandoned mansion to replicate the investigation, unaware that the entire original team ended up insane... or dead. 

In an all-new episode of UNC-TV’s local literary series North Carolina Bookwatch with D.G. Martin, premiering Sunday, November 1, at 5 PM, Sokoloff discusses her new novel inspired by the real-life, world-famous ESP experiments conducted by Dr. J.B. Rhine in the Duke University parapsychology department and her most thrilling to date: a story of deception, attraction, and the unknown.

Alexandra Sokoloff began her career in theater, as an actor, director, and choreographer. As a screenwriter, she has written novel adaptations and original thriller and horror scripts for numerous Hollywood studios. Her debut ghost story,The Harrowing,was nominated for both a Bram Stoker award and an Anthony Award for Best First Novel. Alexandra splits her time between Raleigh and Los Angeles, and is currently at work on her fourth supernatural thriller for St. Martin's Press. Visit her Web site and blog at AlexandraSokoloff.com.

Don’t miss DG Martin’s all-new interview with Alexandra Sokoloff on North Carolina Bookwatch, Sunday, November 1, at 5 PM, only on UNC-TV!

During the 26-week season of North Carolina Bookwatch, guests will also include:  John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed (Holy Smoke), Justin Catanoso (My Cousin the Saint), Todd Johnson (The Sweet By and By), Michael Walden (North Carolina in the Connected Age), Barbara Fredrickson (Positivity), Michael Davis (Street Gang), Dan Ariely (Predictably Irrational), Howard Lee (The Courage to Lead), Marianne Gingher (Adventures in Pen Land), Dan Barefoot (Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices), John Hart (The Last Child),  Elizabeth Edwards (Resilience), Brett Friedlander (Chasing Moonlight),  Michael Malone (The Four Corners of the Sky), John Kessel (The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories), and Reynolds Price (Ardent Spirits).

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