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Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski Thirty-seven year old reporter Mickey Wade recently lost his position at the Philadelphia City News. Broke and heeding his mom’s advice, he moves into the apartment of his ailing grandfather to reduce his costs and to help care for his elderly relative. The Frankford neighborhood is nasty; worse than when he
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Memory by Donald E. Westlake Memory is a noir novel, centered very much on its now-loner protagonist. Paul thinks he has a mystery to investigate — to figure out who he is — and he goes through the detective-motions. But the pieces, even as they add up, don’t help him. What he really has to
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The 13th Hour: A Thriller by Richard Doetsch In Byram Hills, New York, the police arrest Nick Quinn for murdering his wife Julia. The case seems air tight against Nick as Julia called 911 implying Nick was hurting her just before she was shot in the head. The murder weapon has his prints and his
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There’s nothing more important to writing a successful novel than identifying the key problem of the story. Find out how easy it is.
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Spellwright by Blake Charlton Spellwright, when looked at beyond the fascinating concept of using dyslexia to create new plot tensions, is at its heart a simple tale. There are forces of good, mysterious arcane forces, and nefarious, menacing forces of evil. Nicodemus and his mentor, the wizard Shannon, find themselves trying to clear their name
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Mr. Shivers by Robert Jackson Bennett “Mr. Shivers” is set during the Great Depression of the 1930s, in a western America leached gray and dry until it resembles a lunar wasteland. The whole world seems to be dying, with nearly all its inhabitants sick or hungry and desperate. Across this hopeless, ravaged landscape there travels
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Orphan’s Journey (Jason Wander) by Robert Buettner Orphan’s Journey is the third book in the Jason Wander series from Robert Buettner, preceded by Orphanage and Orphan’s Destiny. I’ve enjoyed the first two books in the series very much and this one has been steadily making its way up my to-read pile over the past few
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Mister Slaughter by Robert McCammon The story itself is a rather interesting tale of murder and mystery. It has similarities to modern serial killer tales, but the setting makes it very fresh and interesting. McCammon does a good turn in describing the world of the American Colonies before the French and Indian war. People are
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Mister Slaughter by Robert McCammon The final meeting of Corbett and Mister Slaughter involves so many disturbing and complicated story lines, one has no choice but to rip through the pages of this unique and gritty thriller in order to find out if the horror being suggested is actually true. Mister Slaughter is Robert McCammon
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Mister Slaughter by Robert McCammon In this third installment of his Matthew Corbett series (after Speaks the Nightbird and The Queen of Bedlam), McCammon delivers a twisted tale of pure evil. In 1702 New York City, Matthew and his colleague Hudson Greathouse agree to take on the assignment of transporting evil mass murderer Tyranthus Slaughter
about 2 years ago
Robert McCammon is one of the greatest writers in fiction. His Swan song is amazing, Boy’s Life equally so and the rest of his work are solid horror or just great non-genre specific fiction!
If you haven’t read a McCammon, it is high time you did!