Historical horror isn't a subgenre I considered before as a reader. Sure, I've read horror stories that take place in the past, but this book rooted me in a time and place and planted me there in a way standard tales of the American frontier had never accomplished for me. The story structure was intriguing, the characters unforgettable.
An instant New York Times bestseller, a chilling historical horror novel tracing the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.
A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the new…
I read a lot of detective/mystery stories, and I write them myself. I had never read Nesbo previously, and this book is the ninth in his Harry Hole series. I was sucked in immediately, though the only backstory I had for the very complex main character was what I was seeing on the pages before me.
'Expertly plotted and structured...relentlessly paced...a compulsive page turner' Independent on Sunday
The police don't want him back...
After the horrors of a case that nearly cost him his life, Harry Hole left Oslo and the police force far behind him. Now he's back, but the case he's come to investigate is already closed, and the suspect already behind bars.
The criminals don't want him back...
Denied permission to reopen the investigation, Harry strikes out on his own, quickly discovering a trail of violence and mysterious disappearances apparently unnoticed by the police. At every turn, Harry…
I love Ann Patchett's writing. She is fearless in taking me places I never knew I wanted to go--in this case, the Amazon. Issues (ethical and moral) attached to exploration and academic rigor and altering the civilization into which one inserts oneself in the name of research abound here, but never does the story become anything but a gripping adventure.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION
There were people on the banks of the river.
Among the tangled waterways and giant anacondas of the Brazilian Rio Negro, an enigmatic scientist is developing a drug that could alter the lives of women for ever. Dr Annick Swenson's work is shrouded in mystery; she refuses to report on her progress, especially to her investors, whose patience is fast running out. Anders Eckman, a mild-mannered lab researcher, is sent to investigate.
A curt letter reporting his untimely death is all that returns.
Now Marina Singh, Anders' colleague and once a student of…
Internationally acclaimed poet Mary Irene Jones has vanished -- calls and texts unacknowledged, bank accounts emptied, car abandoned. But before she disappeared, she mailed never-published manuscripts to a lesser-known namesake poet, M. Irene "Mimi" Jones. Are the manuscripts clues only Mimi can decipher? And what about the handsome Philadelphia cop assigned to the case? He seems as intrigued by Mimi as by the missing celebrity poet. Talk about a person of interest...
