Carter Wilson. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8385-8
Wilson (Final Crossing) takes a stab at a horror thriller in this rather tepid story of a novelist’s complicity in a bloody crime. In 1981, Tommy Devereaux was a 14-year-old living in Lind Falls, Ore. He, along with two other teenagers, saw a...
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Carter Wilson. Oceanview (Midpoint, dist.), $26.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-60809-129-4
Hannah Parks, the heroine of Carter’s outstanding paranoid thriller, is the tightly wrapped and semi-alcoholic but nevertheless determinedly happy wife of Dallin, a rising Seattle Internet-security entrepreneur—until Dallin mutters words in his...
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Carter Wilson. Oceanview (Midpoint, dist.), $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-60809-218-5
Harden Campbell, the hero of Wilson’s enthralling thriller, awakens in pitch darkness lying on a dirt floor, unaware of how he got there. Feeling his way around, he bumps into a dead body. Then a light suddenly goes on, and he sees that he’s in a...
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Carter Wilson. Sourcebooks Landmark, $15.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-4926-5650-0
Alice Hill, the narrator of this taut, complex thriller from Wilson (Revelation), was 14 and living in London when two classmates of hers—twin sisters—lured her into a park one night. There the sisters stabbed her five times as a sacrifice to Mister
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Carter Wilson. Sourcebooks Landmark, $15.99 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-4926-8603-3
On a flight to Denver, Boston freelance writer Jake Buchannan recognizes his seatmate, Clara Stowe, but he can’t remember from where, in this gripping standalone from Wilson (Mister Tender’s Girl). As Jake tries to figure out the connection, he...
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Carter Wilson. Poisoned Pen, $15.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-7282-2508-1
After Riley McKay overdoses on alcohol and sleep medication in Milwaukee, his widow, novelist Rose Yates, the narrator of this chilling standalone from Thriller Award finalist Wilson (The Dead Girl in 2A), returns home to the upscale town of Bury, N.
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Carter Wilson. Poisoned Pen, $16.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-7282-4752-6
Widower Aidan Marlowe, the narrator of this disquieting psychological thriller from Wilson (The Dead Husband), is at his wife’s grave the day of her funeral when his phone vibrates. Among his text messages is one informing him that he has won $30...
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Carter Wilson. Poisoned Pen, $17.99 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-1-4642-2622-9
This intriguing if shaky thriller from Wilson (The Father She Went to Find) centers on a true crime podcaster consumed by guilt. Thirty-year-old Poe Webb of Manchester, N.H., hosts the wildly popular podcast Tell Me What You Did, in which she...
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