When a group of bloodthirsty zombies attacks her home late one night, Eileen is forced to confront her deepest fears about her life and her lackluster marriage, and in the process, discovers there may be something worth saving after all. But first, she must live through the night…
Kurt William O’Dell is a dangerous man. He has the power to tell people to do what he wants, and what he wants is for the world to burn.
Alone, O’Dell doesn’t possess the strength to control the whole world. To do that, he takes children with powers like his and changes them. Most serve him. One, George Farnham, will not.
Only George is strong enough to stand against O’Dell in a war where the battleground is the endless dark highways of the mind…but other forces, more powerful than man or boy, roam those roads.
They call themselves US.
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A tale of the apocalypse and the supernatural from the author of Lore, Rain and Masters of Blood and Bone.
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England, 1106 AD
The earl of Trent’s Norman widow, Blanche, and her English steward, Miles Edwulfson, take possession of Blanche’s estates, hoping to live a life of peace and quiet. However, they run afoul of a baron named Aimerie, who is building an illegal castle and taxing the surrounding manors–including Blanche’s–to pay for it. Aimerie has ambitions that go far beyond this castle, to the heart of the English throne, and he won’t let anyone stand in his way. What’s more, Aimerie’s hot-headed son, Ernoul, lusts after Blanche and wants to make her his wife. When Blanche and Miles refuse to pay Aimerie’s taxes, Aimerie vows to crush them.
Set against the backdrop of the American West, “The Slayer Rule” is a sweeping crime drama that delves into themes of friendship, love, loss, and the silent tragedies that haunt the rural landscape.
The story begins with a dinosaur hunter being found dead at the base of a cliff, just days after our protagonist, Nick Yearsley, arrives in Jordan, Montana. Unfortunately for Nick, the local sheriff doesn’t believe in coincidences.
But Nick isn’t looking for trouble—he’s looking for dinosaurs. It shouldn’t matter what happened in Jordan thirty years ago when a twelve-year-old boy deliberately killed his drunken father in a hunting “accident.” Nor should it matter that the area has a history of disappearances and deaths dating back decades. And it certainly shouldn’t matter that the young sheriff was promoted from chief deputy because of the recent death of her husband, the previous sheriff.
What does any of this have to do with the present-day life of Nick Yearsley? On the day he arrives in Jordan, absolutely nothing. By the end of that day, with what he accidentally sets into motion, everything.
Richard DeGrandpre’s stunning crime novel employs great depth of characterization to harness the age-old power of storytelling. If you’re expecting a straightforward whodunnit or a formulaic crime thriller, prepare yourself for a page-turner that is, well, just the beginning.
Next in “The Bone Hunter” series, “The Knackerman.”
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