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"Obedience is evidence that crime fiction is hardly a played-out genre .... [G]rafts the world-turned-upside-down suspense of a Harlan Coben thriller to the hall-of-mirrors vertigo of a novel by Paul Auster .... [I]ts ultimate implications continue to spin out in a reader's mind after the final page is turned."
--Wall Street Journal
"Authentic puzzle mysteries are an endangered species in these hectic times, so it's a genuine, if slightly perverse, kick to follow every byzantine clue in this bizarre game.... If you solve this one without peeking at the last chapter, it's an automatic A."
--New York Times Book Review
"Obedience is a fiendishly clever thriller, debut or no, and Lavender exhibits deft control at the wheel."
--Bookgasm.com
"Obedience is quite a twisty little number .... the taunting nature of the challenge is irresistible...."
--New York Daily News
"[T]his is one of those high-concept thrillers with a final twist that upends all expectations, filled with characters who are not what they seem."
--Entertainment Weekly
"Obedience is a full course load of sinister fun."
--Salon.com
An inspired thriller about cognitive dissonance, conjectural misdirection and the conspicuous dichotomy between academia and the real world."
--Kirkus Reviews
"Will Lavender stuns with this compelling thriller.... The surreal but believable landscape fairly bursts from its confines, goading the reader into finishing just one more page."
--Louisville Courier-Journal
"It's a terrific book, part cat-and-mouse mystery and part psychological study of group behavior.... [A] wonderful book with a strong emotional punch at the end."
--St. Petersburg Times
"Lavender's first novel suggests he has a bright future. The novel is briskly plotted with deft narrative. Obedience builds to a swirling conclusion. It becomes a place where morality is blurred and intentions drift astray."
--Tampa Tribune
"In his tautly strung debut novel, Obedience, literature professor Will Lavender tears a page of out Milgram's notebooks and sets into motion a chain of events that escalates far beyond its intended intellectual exercise. . . . Mystery fans will be satisfied to hang on around the story's hairpin turns as the list of suspects swells and narrows with the unearthing of each clue, but Lavender . . . is aiming at a broader target and posing deeper questions."
--Bookpage
"First-time novelist Lavender has a knack for creepy characters and red herrings."
--Library Journal
"First novelist Lavender has sprinkled his text with enough red herrings to feed the Biblical 5,000 but uses them to build page-turning suspense. . . . Lavender's invocation of the notorious Milgram experiment conducted at Yale on obedience to authority adds an additional-and salutary-layer of psychological meaning to his elaborate plot."
--Booklist
More Praise for Obedience:
"Obedience draws you in and never lets go -- and what a ride!"
--David Baldacci
"In his dream-like and labyrinthine debut, Will Lavender delivers a clever, intricate page-turner that kept me guessing late into the night. Obedience is a house of mirrors where every corner we turn is a false reflection of the truth until the shocking final scene. A gripping exploration of human nature and all its foibles told in Lavender's fresh and original voice, Obedience is not to be missed."
--Lisa Unger
"Obedience is a very scary story set on the border where good meets evil, located in this case in that scariest of places, academia. Taut, twisty, and highly original: the pages turned themselves."
--Peter Abrahams
"A taut and timely thriller that explores the dark side of academia, where classrooms are dangerous and paranoia abounds."
--Karin Slaughter
"A taut, clever puzzle, so artfully crafted and tightly wound that it springs open its trap when you least expect it to."
--Carol Goodman, author of The Sonnet Lover and The Ghost Orchid
"A devilishly inventive debut that reads like a house of mirrors. Nothing is what it seems, right up to the devastating finale."
--Brian Freeman, author of Stripped
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