Ellis’s prose immediately pulled me in and allowed me to inhabit the
world of early 80s LA, and even better, put me into the head of a
seventeen-year-old boy.
Nostalgic and dark, the repetitiveness of thoughts and
events was like falling into a whirlpool of experiences I could never have. It
was the perfect combination of nightmare, beauty, and carnality. Ultimately, it
took me out of my own life, deposited me somewhere fantastic, faded, gorgeous,
and dangerous, and let me feel and think in a completely different way from my
own. When I was done, I felt I could easily go right back and start again.
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A novel of sensational literary and psychological suspense from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged high school friends in a vibrantly fictionalized 1980s Los Angeles as a serial killer strikes across the city
“A thrilling page turner from Ellis, who revisits the world that made him a literary star with a stylish scary new story that doesn't disappoint.” –Town & Country
Bret Easton Ellis’s masterful new novel is a story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set…
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this case, I listened to the audiobook, and the narrator’s voice was so vivid,
I felt like I was sitting in a front parlor in Northern Ireland, having a cup of
tea, while this smart, thoughtful, and very self-aware young person told me her
story.
I absolutely loved the specificity of the descriptions and the depth of
thought in this book. The author did not stop with a simple depiction of a
subject, but went deeper into its meaning to the main character and placed
everything within the context of the Troubles and small-town mentality. I felt
I got to witness a young woman come to certain understandings about herself and
the world, all of it packaged in, sometimes, laugh-out-loud prose.
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In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. The last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed and…
The fifth installment in the Sean Duffy detective
series, Rain Dogs is as compelling, intelligent, and dark as the others.
Duffy
is an Irish Catholic policeman in a mostly Protestant police force, solving
crimes in 80s Northern Ireland. (Yes, I was on a Northern Ireland kick this
year). He is smart and knows it, but he’s also flawed and very decent. He
fights valiantly for what he believes is right, regardless of the side that
lands him on politically.
But mostly, I love this book, and the series, for the
gorgeous, spare prose and, in audiobook, for Gerard Doyle’s superbly dry,
acerbic narration.
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“Shot through with a smart, crackling humor that manages to be both dark and witty…”―The Boston Globe
It’s just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy: riot duty, heartbreak, cases he can solve but never get to court. But what detective gets two locked-room mysteries in one career?
When journalist Lily Bigelow is found dead in the courtyard of Carrickfergus Castle, it looks like a suicide. Yet there are a few things that bother Duffy just enough to keep…
A transplant to the upstate New York hamlet of
Sylvan, all Laney wants is a peaceful life for herself and her son. But things
rarely remain calm in Laney’s life—and when her neighborhood summer block party
explodes in shocking violence and ends with the disappearance of her friend and
another woman, she’ll need all her skills as a PI to solve a mystery that
reaches far beyond her small town.
As people closest to Laney fall under suspicion, the local
authorities and even her colleagues question her own complicity. And then
there’s fifteen-year-old Alfie, her complicated and enigmatic son, obviously
hiding something. Even as Laney struggles to bury evidence of her boy’s
involvement, his cagey behavior rings every maternal alarm.
