Books by Boston Teran and Complete Book Reviews
Boston Teran, Author . St. Martin's/Minotaur $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-27115-2
Award-winning crime novelist Teran jars the soul with this chaotic, murderous tale set in a sunbaked, nightmarish Los Angeles County. Dee Storey is a 28-year-old speed addict who will do anything to get more drugs—from dating slimy Beverly...
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Boston Teran, Author . St. Martin's/Minotaur $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-27118-3
After soaring high with his first two thrillers, God Is a Bullet
and Never Count Out the Dead, Teran crashes and burns with his third, an archly overwritten and confusing book, which also wastes a promising, relatively fresh locale—California
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Boston Teran, Author . Counterpoint $25 (245p) ISBN 978-1-58243-525-1
Teran's cinematic fifth novel portrays the 1910 Mexican revolution via the gun sights of an unlikely duo: Rawbone, a hardened smalltime assassin, and John Lourdes, a Bureau of Investigation agent. The two are thrown together when Rawbone is...
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Boston Teran, Author, Teran Boston, Author Alfred A. Knopf $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-40188-6
Strung-out on junk and tattooed with the dates of helter-skelter-style deaths they've caused, the kids who walk ""The Left-Handed Path"" talk Satanic talk and spread terror through the very Christian Southern California town of Clay. This tautly...
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Boston Teran. High Top, $22 (304p) ISBN 978-1-56703-065-5
The pseudonymous Teran’s stellar conclusion to his Defiant Americans series (after 2018’s A Child Went Forth) centers on the world of American theater before the Civil War. In 1848, London actor Nathaniel Luck, who’s under suspicion of murder, flees
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Boston Teran. High Top, $22 (300p) ISBN 978-1-56703-016-7
Edgar finalist Teran (the Defiant Americans series) examines organized crime and juvenile delinquency in this engrossing historical thriller. In 1957, Bronx racketeer Peter Prince disappears while under investigation by the NYPD for his association...
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Boston Teran. High Top, $22 (280p) ISBN 978-1-56703-101-0
Set in the post–Civil War era, this outstanding crime novel from the pseudonymous Teran (Two Boys at Breakwater) opens with an eight-year-old boy, bound, gagged, and left to die, crawling along a remote Texas trail. A lone rider named Ledru Drum...
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Boston Teran. High Top, $22 (296p) ISBN 978-1-56703-069-3
The pseudonymous Teran’s gripping sequel to 2002’s Never Count Out the Dead brings back agoraphobic crime columnist William Worth to investigate the fallout from a long-abandoned freeway expansion project. Worth, who’s begun hosting a podcast spun...
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