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Title details for Niceville by Carsten Stroud - Available

Niceville

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by Carsten Stroud
Ann Marie Lee
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Something is wrong in Niceville. . .  
A boy literally disappears from Main Street.  A security camera captures the moment of his instant, inexplicable vanishing. An audacious bank robbery goes seriously wrong: four cops are gunned down; a TV news helicopter is shot and spins crazily out of the sky, triggering a disastrous cascade of events that ricochet across twenty different lives over the course of just thirty-six hours.
Nick Kavanaugh, a cop with a dark side, investigates. Soon he and his wife, Kate, a distinguished lawyer from an old Niceville family, find themselves struggling to make sense not only of the disappearance and the robbery but also of a shadow world, where time has a different rhythm and where justice is elusive. 
. . .Something is wrong in Niceville, where evil lives far longer than men do.
Compulsively readable, and populated with characters who leap off the page, Niceville will draw you in, excite you, amaze you, horrify you, and, when it finally lets you go, make you sorry you have to leave.
Read the first thirty-five pages.  Find out why Harlan Coben calls Carsten Stroud the master of “the nerve-jangling thrill ride.”

  • Creators

  • Series

    Niceville Trilogy

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    June 12, 2012

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780449008881
      • File size: 423119 KB
      • Duration: 14:41:29

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      The first 30 minutes clues listeners into the irony of this book's title as Ann Marie Lee's compelling voice recounts the terror and malice found in the southern town of Niceville. The first volume of a trilogy to be released over the next two years introduces a combined ghost story and crime thriller. Lee's experience shines whether she's describing the small-town setting, the multiple murders in the aftermath of a bank robbery, or the many characters. She does strain to create believable male voices. But this minor flaw shouldn't dissuade as Lee expertly transports listeners deep into the malevolence of Niceville. M.L.R. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 23, 2012
      Thriller author Stroud (Close Pursuit) begins this shoot ’em up meets supernatural thriller with a high-speed chase between cops, a getaway car, and a news chopper that is gruesomely cut short by a conspiring sniper. The bloodbath sets in motion a three-day flurry of dimly related events, including a standoff between an accused pedophile and a SWAT team, a father caught taping his daughters in the shower, and the takedown of an anonymous tipster for his own heinous crimes. As the entangled story unravels, “random stranger abductions” continue across the small Southern town of Niceville. After a missing boy is found alive in a fresh grave, clues surface about who—or what—is behind it all. In this unnecessarily convoluted mind-bender, Stroud introduces key players without sufficient backstory, making differentiation difficult. The genre jargon–thick prose can be campy (“Coker felt that line-of-duty death was like the jalapeños on a chimichanga; it added spice to patrol work that could be pretty damn boring most of the time”) and some plot twists, while intriguing, clutter rather than clarify. The ending leaves mysteries unsolved, but a pending follow-up book may provide answers, if readers are willing to return to Niceville. 100,000 announced first printing. Agent: Barney Karpfinger.

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  • English

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