Niceville - Hardcover

Stroud, Carsten

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 030770095X ISBN 13: 9780307700957

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2012

Synopsis

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.”

About this title

Review:

"A generous collection of memorable villains, tight action sequences, and an occasional bit of black humor." --"Booklist"

"Terrific dialogue, oddball characters, and a wild story make this a great read." --Elmore Leonard, author of "Get Shorty" and "Out of Sight"

"Carsten Stroud's hard-boiled and engrossing" Niceville" rockets around its deceptively staid southern town, pulling bad guys and worse guys and long-ago misdeeds into a widening and unfolding tale about every kind of wickedness. Somehow it manages to get tighter, nastier, and more delightful as it rolls along toward its lovely and completely black-hearted final pages." --Peter Straub

"A compelling work that grabs your attention from page one." --Karin Slaughter

A truly one-of-a-kind tour de force, "Niceville "may be hard to categorize by genre, but it's easy to describe as a reading experience - wildly, insanely entertaining! --John Lescroart
"[An] A-ticket thrill-ride... As enthralling as a tale by the Brothers Grimm." --Tom Nolan, "Wall Street Journal"

"Take a pinch of brilliant characters. Stir in some snappy dialogue and a helping of high-octane plot. Blend with a fantastically spooky location and serve hot. Carsten Stroud's bouillabaisse of a new novel is a simmering read; one part thriller, one part suspense, and taken with a hefty sprinkling of supernatural hot spice, it's one of the most compulsive page-turners of the year." --A.J. Kirby, "The New York Journal of Books"

"A generous collection of memorable villains, tight action sequences, and an occasional bit of black humor." --"Booklist"

"Terrific dialogue, oddball characters, and a wild story make this a great read." --Elmore Leonard, author of "Get Shorty" and "Out of Sight"

"Carsten Stroud's hard-boiled and engrossing" Niceville" rockets around its deceptively staid southern town, pulling bad guys and worse guys and long-ago misdeeds into a widening and unfolding tale about every kind of wickedness. Somehow it manages to get tighter, nastier, and more delightful as it rolls along toward its lovely and completely black-hearted final pages." --Peter Straub

"A compelling work that grabs your attention from page one." --Karin Slaughter

A truly one-of-a-kind tour de force, "Niceville "may be hard to categorize by genre, but it's easy to describe as a reading experience - wildly, insanely entertaining! --John Lescroart
"Strange, outrageous and wonderful... Offers surprises, shocks, moments of lyricism, explosions of humor and unrelenting suspense. It's superior storytelling. Call it the summer's darkest, most delicious guilty pleasure." --Patrick Anderson, "The Washington Post Book World"
"[An] A-ticket thrill-ride... As enthralling as a tale by the Brothers Grimm." --Tom Nolan, "Wall Street Journal"
"Take a pinch of brilliant characters. Stir in some snappy dialogue and a helping of high-octane plot. Blend with a fantastically spooky location and serve hot. Carsten Stroud's bouillabaisse of a new novel is a simmering read; one part thriller, one part suspense, and taken with a hefty sprinkling of supernatural hot spice, it's one of the most compulsive page-turners of the year." --A.J. Kirby, "The New York Journal of Books"
"A unique genre-bending novel that will haunt readers long after the last page... "Niceville" is a town readers have to visit for themselves in order to believe." --Elizabeth Rabin, "Fredericksburg Free Lance Star"
"A generous collection of memorable villains, tight action sequences, and an occasional bit of black humor." --"Booklist"
"Terrific dialogue, oddball characters, and a wild story make this a great read." --Elmore Leonard, author of "Get Shorty" and "Out of Sight"
"Carsten Stroud's hard-boiled and engrossing" Niceville" rockets around its deceptively staid southern town, pulling bad guys and worse guys and long-ago misdeeds into a widening and unfolding tale about every kind of wickedness. Somehow it manages to get tighter, nastier, and more delightful as it rolls along toward its lovely and completely black-hearted final pages." --Peter Straub
"A compelling work that grabs your attention from page one." --Karin Slaughter
A truly one-of-a-kind tour de force, "Niceville "may be hard to categorize by genre, but it's easy to describe as a reading experience - wildly, insanely entertaining! --John Le

"Niceville belies its name at every turn in Carson Stroud's wickedly entertaining thriller."
" --The Washington Post Book World"
"Terrific dialogue, oddball characters, and a wild story make this a great read."
--Elmore Leonard
"Strange, outrageous and wonderful. . . . Superior storytelling. . . . [If] you savor the blackest of comedy and fear that evil is all around us, embodied, in both flesh-and-blood and supernatural creatures, then you might enjoy this toxic tale."
" --The Washington Post"
" "
"Glorious. . . . Stroud manages to combine just about all the pulp genres you can imagine in his tale--hard-boiled noir, supernatural horror, Southern gothic melodrama, multigenerational family tragedy. . . . [with his] gifts for flat-out storytelling and sharp characterization."
--"Entertainment Weekly"
"[A] thrill-ride. . . . As enthralling as a tale by the Brothers Grimm."
--"The Wall Street Journal"
"Mesmerizing. . . . "Niceville "has claws as sharp as the soaring crows' talons."
" --South Florida Sun-Sentinel
"
"Terrific. . . . A mystery but also a ghost story, with a touch of horror. . . . This is a very sharp . . . view of traditional Southern Gothic."
" --The Globe and Mail" (Toronto)
"A unique genre-bending novel that will haunt readers long after the last page. . . . "Niceville" is a town readers have to visit for themselves in order to believe."
--"The Free Lance-Star
"
"The last time I was so swiftly taken over by a work of fiction was probably when I read "A Game of Thrones." Carsten Stroud's wonderful "Niceville" isn't really much like George R. R. Martin's fantasy novel, apart from being equally hard-boiled and engrossing, but it rockets around its deceptively staid Southern town, pulling bad guys and worse guys and long-ago misdeeds into a widening and unfolding tale about every kind of wickedness. Somehow it manages to get tighter, nastier, and more delightful as i

"NICEVILLE and THE HOMECOMING, by Carsten Stroud: crazy-good supernatural/crime/horror epic. Blew me away. Really one novel. You've never read anything like it. Faulkner crossed with Steve King."
--Stephen King
"Niceville belies its name at every turn in Carson Stroud's wickedly entertaining thriller."
" --The Washington Post Book World"
"Terrific dialogue, oddball characters, and a wild story make this a great read."
--Elmore Leonard
"Strange, outrageous and wonderful. . . . Superior storytelling. . . . [If] you savor the blackest of comedy and fear that evil is all around us, embodied, in both flesh-and-blood and supernatural creatures, then you might enjoy this toxic tale."
" --The Washington Post"
" "
"Glorious. . . . Stroud manages to combine just about all the pulp genres you can imagine in his tale--hard-boiled noir, supernatural horror, Southern gothic melodrama, multigenerational family tragedy. . . . [with his] gifts for flat-out storytelling and sharp characterization."
--"Entertainment Weekly"
"[A] thrill-ride. . . . As enthralling as a tale by the Brothers Grimm."
--"The Wall Street Journal"
"Mesmerizing. . . . "Niceville "has claws as sharp as the soaring crows' talons."
" --South Florida Sun-Sentinel
"
"Terrific. . . . A mystery but also a ghost story, with a touch of horror. . . . This is a very sharp . . . view of traditional Southern Gothic."
" --The Globe and Mail" (Toronto)
"A unique genre-bending novel that will haunt readers long after the last page. . . . "Niceville" is a town readers have to visit for themselves in order to believe."
--"The Free Lance-Star
"
"The last time I was so swiftly taken over by a work of fiction was probably when I read "A Game of Thrones." Carsten Stroud's wonderful "Niceville" isn't really much like George R. R. Martin's fantasy novel, apart from being equally hard-boiled and engrossing, but it rockets around its deceptively staid Southern town, pulling bad guys and worse guys and long-ago misdeeds into a widening and unfolding tale about every kind of wickedness. Somehow it manages to get tighter, nastier, and more delightful as it rolls along toward its lovely and completely black-hearted final pages."
--Peter Straub
"A simmering read; one part thriller, one part suspense, and taken with a hefty sprinkling of supernatural hot spice, it's one of the most compulsive page-turners of the year."
--"The New York Journal of Books
"
"[Stroud] literally gives plenty of bang for the buck."
" --Booklist
"
"A compelling work that grabs your attention from page one."
--Karin Slaughter
"Think Stephen King crossed with Mickey Spillane.""
--Open Letters Monthly"
"A truly one-of-a-kind tour de force, "Niceville "may be hard to categorize by genre, but it's easy to describe as a reading experience--wildly, insanely entertaining."
--John Lescroart

NICEVILLE and THE HOMECOMING, by Carsten Stroud: crazy-good supernatural/crime/horror epic. Blew me away. Really one novel. You ve never read anything like it. Faulkner crossed with Steve King.
--Stephen King
Niceville belies its name at every turn in Carson Stroud s wickedly entertaining thriller.
" The Washington Post Book World"
Terrific dialogue, oddball characters, and a wild story make this a great read.
Elmore Leonard
Strange, outrageous and wonderful. . . . Superior storytelling. . . . [If] you savor the blackest of comedy and fear that evil is all around us, embodied, in both flesh-and-blood and supernatural creatures, then you might enjoy this toxic tale.
" The Washington Post"
""
Glorious. . . . Stroud manages to combine just about all the pulp genres you can imagine in his tale hard-boiled noir, supernatural horror, Southern gothic melodrama, multigenerational family tragedy. . . . [with his] gifts for flat-out storytelling and sharp characterization.
"Entertainment Weekly"
[A] thrill-ride. . . . As enthralling as a tale by the Brothers Grimm.
"The Wall Street Journal"
Mesmerizing. . . . "Niceville "has claws as sharp as the soaring crows talons.
" South Florida Sun-Sentinel
"
Terrific. . . . A mystery but also a ghost story, with a touch of horror. . . . This is a very sharp . . . view of traditional Southern Gothic.
" The Globe and Mail" (Toronto)
A unique genre-bending novel that will haunt readers long after the last page. . . . "Niceville" is a town readers have to visit for themselves in order to believe.
"The Free Lance-Star
"
"The last time I was so swiftly taken over by a work of fiction was probably when I read "A Game of Thrones." Carsten Stroud s wonderful "Niceville" isn t really much like George R. R. Martin's fantasy novel, apart from being equally hard-boiled and engrossing, but it rockets around its deceptively staid Southern town, pulling bad guys and worse guys and long-ago misdeeds into a widening and unfolding tale about every kind of wickedness. Somehow it manages to get tighter, nastier, and more delightful as it rolls along toward its lovely and completely black-hearted final pages."
Peter Straub
A simmering read; one part thriller, one part suspense, and taken with a hefty sprinkling of supernatural hot spice, it s one of the most compulsive page-turners of the year.
"The New York Journal of Books
"
[Stroud] literally gives plenty of bang for the buck.
" Booklist
"
A compelling work that grabs your attention from page one.
Karin Slaughter
Think Stephen King crossed with Mickey Spillane. "
Open Letters Monthly"
A truly one-of-a-kind tour de force, "Niceville "may be hard to categorize by genre, but it s easy to describe as a reading experience wildly, insanely entertaining.
John Lescroart"

NICEVILLE and THE HOMECOMING, by Carsten Stroud: crazy-good supernatural/crime/horror epic. Blew me away. Really one novel. You ve never read anything like it. Faulkner crossed with Steve King.
--Stephen King
Niceville belies its name at every turn in Carson Stroud s wickedly entertaining thriller.
The Washington Post Book World
Terrific dialogue, oddball characters, and a wild story make this a great read.
Elmore Leonard
Strange, outrageous and wonderful. . . . Superior storytelling. . . . [If] you savor the blackest of comedy and fear that evil is all around us, embodied, in both flesh-and-blood and supernatural creatures, then you might enjoy this toxic tale.
The Washington Post

Glorious. . . . Stroud manages to combine just about all the pulp genres you can imagine in his tale hard-boiled noir, supernatural horror, Southern gothic melodrama, multigenerational family tragedy. . . . [with his] gifts for flat-out storytelling and sharp characterization.
Entertainment Weekly
[A] thrill-ride. . . . As enthralling as a tale by the Brothers Grimm.
The Wall Street Journal
Mesmerizing. . . . Niceville has claws as sharp as the soaring crows talons.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Terrific. . . . A mystery but also a ghost story, with a touch of horror. . . . This is a very sharp . . . view of traditional Southern Gothic.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
A unique genre-bending novel that will haunt readers long after the last page. . . . Niceville is a town readers have to visit for themselves in order to believe.
The Free Lance-Star

"The last time I was so swiftly taken over by a work of fiction was probably when I read A Game of Thrones. Carsten Stroud s wonderful Niceville isn t really much like George R. R. Martin's fantasy novel, apart from being equally hard-boiled and engrossing, but it rockets around its deceptively staid Southern town, pulling bad guys and worse guys and long-ago misdeeds into a widening and unfolding tale about every kind of wickedness. Somehow it manages to get tighter, nastier, and more delightful as it rolls along toward its lovely and completely black-hearted final pages."
Peter Straub
A simmering read; one part thriller, one part suspense, and taken with a hefty sprinkling of supernatural hot spice, it s one of the most compulsive page-turners of the year.
The New York Journal of Books

[Stroud] literally gives plenty of bang for the buck.
Booklist

A compelling work that grabs your attention from page one.
Karin Slaughter
Think Stephen King crossed with Mickey Spillane.
Open Letters Monthly
A truly one-of-a-kind tour de force, Niceville may be hard to categorize by genre, but it s easy to describe as a reading experience wildly, insanely entertaining.
John Lescroart

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"NICEVILLE and THE HOMECOMING, by Carsten Stroud: crazy-good supernatural/crime/horror epic. Blew me away. Really one novel. You've n...

Book Description:

A terrifying psychological thriller about a small US town where nothing is quite what it seems...

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 030770095X
• ISBN 13: 9780307700957
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 385