Preorder Pitch Dark by Paul Doiron 3 When I got Charley on the phone and told him what Brandon had told me and what Stacey and I had subsequently learned—or not learned—about Mark Redmond and Hammond Pratt, and after I had explained my plan to ask Josie to fly us to Prentiss Pond, his response…
ONE July 13, 1987 Eau Claire, Wisconsin Monday I remember everything. This isn’t an exaggeration. As the few who know me would confirm, I’m not prone to hyperbole. And when I say I remember everything, I’m not talking about the events of this morning. Or yesterday. Or the whole of last week. I remember everything…
Dunia Ahmed, like many other single New Yorkers her age, looks forward every morning to the mild flirtation she has going on with a cute guy who happens to take the same subway line as she does into work. Mostly, they just smile hello at each other, so the last thing she expects is for…
New York Times bestselling author Richard Chizmar, like his occasional collaborator Stephen King, has transcended the confines of the horror genre to reach a mainstream audience. Look no further than 2021’s Chasing the Boogeyman—the fictional yet highly self-referential tale of a serial killer stalking his real-life hometown—for proof. The book became a phenomenon among readers,…
Reporter Nell Fagan isn’t exactly down on her luck, but a good scoop would definitely put her back in control of her career after a combination of her own indiscretions and the influence of wealthy recluse Rachel Savernake put her on the outs with the editors of Fleet Street. As such, she’s staying under an…
Wendy Whitman’s crime fiction is more than entertainment. It’s also a means through which she can show readers the harsh realities of criminality and victimization—an area she is intimately acquainted with. A graduate of both Tufts University (with a degree in English and Photography) and Boston School of Law, she later spent two decades working…
The tension in North of Nowhere never lets up: the plot is pure adrenaline. It’s been described as Yellowstone meets Succession. The unpredictability of the winter weather in the Montana wilderness, combined with the power of immense wealth to force outcomes, makes the analogy accurate. North of Nowhere is a standalone, falling into the gothic/thriller/dysfunctional…
When I started writing North of Nowhere, I knew that setting would be important to the story. Small plane crash during a snowstorm in the mountains — I needed a rural area where help wouldn’t be fast coming. I could have set the story in a variety of places — in fact, the first draft…
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Prologue Patrick He hit the dog on Locust. It came out of nowhere, a blur of dark motion. He swerved, but not enough—the bumper’s edge caught the animal’s hindquarters, sending it spinning back into the night. Its yelp harmonized with the shriek of braking tires. And then he’d stopped in the middle of the road,…
