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Maxim Jakubowski April 2016 Highly Recommended.
Championed by Stephen King as in the tradition of 'Red Dragon' in the terror stakes, this gripping thriller pushes all the right buttons, including a strong one for discomfort. Following a painful sentimental break-up, Dr. Caleb Maddox, a San Francisco toxicologist, meets the obligatory femme fatale in a bar which later proves to have a connection with a series of unexplained murders. His obligatory quest for the mysterious woman begins and quickly draws him into a sinister net from which he finds himself awkward to disentangle, with professional obligations and personal reasons involving secrets from his own past merging uncomfortably. Mining the roots of obsession alongside a plot stuck in fifth gear amongst a most memorable urban landscape, this is a creepy keeper!
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The Poison Artist Synopsis
"An electrifying read . . . I haven't read anything so terrifying since Red Dragon." — Stephen King"Magnificent, thoroughly unnerving . . . I dare you to look away." — Justin Cronin Caleb Maddox is a San Francisco toxicologist studying the chemical effects of pain. He's out drinking after a bad breakup when a hauntingly seductive woman sits down at his side. He talks to Emmeline over absinthe, but their encounter is fleeting. She brushes her lips on his ear and disappears. He must find her. As Caleb scours the city, he begins helping the city's medical examiner with a serial-murder investigation. Soon the search for the killer entwines with Caleb's hunt for Emmeline, and the closer he gets to each, the more dangerous his world becomes. "A wicked mix of Poe, The Silence of the Lambs, and Vertigo,"* The Poison Artist spins a thrilling tale of obsession, damage, a man unmoored by an unspeakable past, and a woman who offers the ultimate escape. "A totally new take on the mystery-thriller genre . . . Fresh and unpredictable. The writing is top-notch . . . Grade: A." — Cleveland Plain Dealer "Genuinely scary, in the very best way, and nastily twisty, also in the very best way . . . Hypnotic." — Guardian * William Landay.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780544811829 |
| Publication date: |
6th December 2016 |
| Author: |
Jonathan Moore |
| Publisher: |
Mariner Books an imprint of HMH Books |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
304 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Crime and Mystery
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Jonathan Moore Press Reviews
'An electrifying read... I haven't read anything so terrifying since Red Dragon. STEPHEN KING Patient, stylish and incredibly suspenseful.' LEE CHILD
'A magnificent, thoroughly unnerving psychological thriller written in a lush, intoxicating style. I dare you to look away.' JUSTIN CRONIN
'THE POISON ARTIST is an elegant, gripping, hair-raising gothic chiller, a wicked mix of Poe, The Silence of the Lambs, and Vertigo. Settle in for a long night of reading-once this one grabs you, it doesn't let go.' WILLIAM LANDAY, New York Times best-selling author of DEFENDING JACOB
'this is a cinematic and phantasmagoric treat... Obsession and violent death collide in an elegantly written thriller.' THE INDEPENDENT
About Jonathan Moore
Jonathan Moore and his wife live in Hawaii. When he's not writing, or fixing his boat, Jonathan is an attorney. Before completing law school in New Orleans, he was an English teacher, a whitewater raft guide on the Rio Grande, a counsellor at a Texas wilderness camp for juvenile delinquents, and an investigator for a criminal defense attorney in Washington, D.C.
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