Clown in the Moonlight (21 page)
He looked at where the guy's nose would probably be, waiting for his hands to snap out and break it, but they didn't.
He expected Dr. Brandt to scream or start speaking in that cold, indifferent way, but she didn't.
He couldn't figure out what was going on and kept hoping something else would happen that he wouldn't be responsible for.
Something that might reveal a truer nature.
Faust almost came into view for a moment before fading again.
The faceless figure approached, inch by inch.
Without features it managed to peer into Pace's eyes and say, "Ah, our father who art indifferent.
I think they may have cured him."
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Shadow Season
~International Thriller Writers Award nominee
"One of the most chilling thrillers of the year…[Piccirilli] does a convincing job of portraying the life of a man who can't see, adding a unique and inviting twist to what is already an exciting plot."—
Chicago Sun-Times
An ex-cop, Finn was left literally blinded by violence. The one thing he can still see is the body of his wife, Dani, and a crime scene that won't fade from his mind's eye. Now a professor, Finn never would have guessed that an isolated girls' prep school could be every bit as dangerous as city streets. Especially when he stumbles upon a local girl lying in a graveyard in the middle of a raging blizzard. A group of innocent students has been put in harm's way by a pair of vicious criminals stalking Finn for unknown reasons. Secrets are creeping from the shadows around him—the kind that even a man with perfect vision never sees until it's too late. They're about to become terrifyingly clear to Finn—and it all begins with the scent of blood.
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The Coldest Mile
~Winner of an International Thriller Writers Award
~A Deadly Pleasures Best Mystery/Crime Novel
~Sequel to
The Cold Spot
"Pedal to the metal for 352 pages. Don't miss it."—
Booklist
Raised to be a thief and getaway driver, Chase left the bent life after he found his true love, Lila. For ten years he walked the straight and narrow—until Lila was murdered. Now Chase is looking for his grandfather Jonah, the stone-cold-killer con man who raised him and is the last living repository of his family's darkest secrets. First he'll need a score. Chase thinks he's found it as a driver for a dysfunctional crime family, but with the Langans' patriarch dying, the once powerful syndicate may unravel before Chase can rip it off. If he survives the bloodbath to come, he'll face an even uglier showdown. Because his grandfather Jonah is waiting for him at the coldest family reunion this side of hell.
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The Cold Spot
~ Edgar Award nominee
"Both funny and ferocious…[Piccirilli's] stories are worth their weight in gold."
–San Francisco Chronicle
Chase was raised as a getaway driver by his grandfather, Jonah, a con man feared by even the hardened career criminals who make up his crew. But when Jonah crosses the line and murders one of his own, Chase goes solo, stealing cars and pulling scores across the country….And then he meets Lila, a strong-willed deputy sheriff with a beguiling smile who shows him what love can be. Chase is on the straight and narrow for the first time in his life—until tragedy hits, and he must reenter the dark world of grifters and crooks. Now Chase is out for revenge—and he'll have to turn to the one man he hates most in the world. Only Jonah can teach Chase how to become a stone-cold killer. But even as the two men work together, Chase knows that their unresolved past will eventually lead them to a showdown of their own.
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The Midnight Road
~Winner of an International Thriller Writers Award
"I read this novel nonstop. A combination of noir suspense and humorous ghost story, Piccirilli…is at the top of his game."—
Rocky Mountain News
As an investigator for Suffolk County Child Protective Services, Flynn has seen more than his share of misery, but nothing could prepare him for the nightmare inside the Shepards' million-dollar
Long Island
home. In less than an hour, that nightmare will send him plunging into a frozen harbor—and awaken him to a reality even more terrifying. They've nicknamed Flynn "The Miracle Man" because few have ever been resuscitated after being dead so long. But a determined homicide detective and a beautiful, inquisitive reporter have questions about what really happened at the Shepard house—and why the people around Flynn are suddenly being murdered. Flynn has questions of his own, especially when one of the victims dies while handing him a note: THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT. Flynn has returned from the Midnight Road—and someone wants to send him back.
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The Dead Letters
~A
Romantic Times
Reviewers' Choice Nominee
"A powerful meditation on the nature of revenge, structured like a psychological thriller…A terrific novel."—
Locus
Five years ago, Eddie Whitt's daughter Sarah became the victim of a serial killer known as Killjoy, and Whitt vowed to hunt him down—no matter what the cost. The only clues to Killjoy's identity lie in a trail of taunting letters. And even as they lead Whitt to a deadly cult—and closer to his prey—he begins to suspect that, like his wife, he's losing his grip on reality: Sarah's dollhouse is filled with eerie activity, as if her murder never occurred. As dark forces rise around him, Whitt must choose—between believing that evil can repent…and stepping into a trap set by a killer who may know the only way to save Whitt's soul.
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Headstone
City
~Named one of the
Salt Lake City Tribune
's "Best of the Literary Crop"
~Bram Stoker Award nominee
~International Thriller Writers Award nominee
"A beautiful and perversely funny sort of crime novel.... [Piccirilli has] the authentic surrealist's gift of blind trust in his imagination, and that enables him to throw off striking metaphors like sparks from a speeding train….
Headstone City
gives you the distinctive shiver…all good writing provides: the certainty that the writer's own ghosts are in it."
—New York Times Book Review
The night Johnny Danetello drove a dying girl through the streets of Brooklyn in his cab, he was trying to save her life. Instead he ran down a cop and lost her and his freedom. Every day in prison, Johnny knew that Angie Monticelli's family blamed him for her death, and that going home would be suicide. But Johnny has unfinished business with his former friend turned mob boss, Vinny Monticelli. Survivors of a long-ago freak accident, Johnny and Vinny share access to alternate realities no one else can know–and to a past and present that will all become the same in a city only one of them can leave alive. . . .
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November Mourns
"Tom Piccirilli is the master of the Southern gothic, quietly building horror where the chills grow with increasing strangeness….When he is done, the uneasy horrors of Moon Run Hollow are in your bones."—
Denver Post
Two years ago Shad Jenkins went to prison for assaulting his sister's attacker. Now he has returned to the southern mountain town of
Moon Run Hollow
, only to find that Megan is dead. No one knows how she died–or why she was found on
Gospel Trail Road
, a dirt path leading up to the gorge high above the
Chatalaha
River
, where victims of yellow fever were once brought to die. Shad must pierce the townsfolk's superstitions and terrible secrets to find out the truth about his sister's death. But the Blood Dreams he's suffered from since childhood have taken on an eerie urgency, revealing to Shad the nightmarish form of an unseen adversary....
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A Choir of Ill Children
"A wonderfully wacked, disorienting, fully creepy book…The poetic nature of the prose and seriousness of intent carried the day in every scene." —DEAN KOONTZ
Since his mother's disappearance and his father's suicide, Thomas has cared for his three brothers—conjoined triplets with separate bodies but one shared brain—and the town's only industry, the Mill. Because of his family's prominence, Thomas is feared and respected by the superstitious swamp folk. Granny witches cast hexes while Thomas's childhood sweetheart drifts through his life like a vengeful ghost and his best friend, a reverend suffering from the power of tongues, is overcome with this curse as he tries to warn of impending menace. All Thomas learns is that "the carnival is coming."
Torn by responsibility and rage, Thomas must face his tormented past as well as the mysterious forces surging toward the town he loves and despises.
978-0-553-90040-8 e-book / 978-0-553-58719-7 paperback
Tom Piccirilli is the author of twenty novels including SHADOW SEASON, THE COLD SPOT, THE COLDEST MILE, and A CHOIR OF ILL CHILDREN.
He's won two International Thriller Awards and four Bram Stoker Awards, as well as having been nominated for the Edgar, the World Fantasy Award, the Macavity, and Le Grand Prix de L'imagination.
