The Shimmer
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Publisher Description
‘Carsten Stroud is a world-class storyteller… He effortlessly combines hard-nosed cops, mafia dons, and supernatural events with convincing ease. The prose is music. He had me reading late into the night.’ STEPHEN KING
How do you hunt a killer who can go back in time and make sure you’re never born?
Sergeant Jack Redding is hot on the trail of a time travelling serial killer who rides The Shimmer across the decades. The stakes turn brutal when the chance to alter past events offers Jack a terrible choice.
Taking us from modern-day Jacksonville, to 1950s Mafia-ruled St. Augustine, and on to the French Quarter of New Orleans in 1914, The Shimmer is a unique, time-shifting thriller that will stay with you long after you turn the last page.
Readers love Carsten Stroud:
“Great pacing, intriguing plot twists, evocative prose.”
“page-turner with a satisfying and ingenious plot”
“a very clever time travel mystery that is fast-paced and engaging”
“Exciting, suspenseful, violent at a couple of points, frightening and heartwarming”
“a magnificent literary gift”
Reviews
"Carsten Stroud is a world-class storyteller… He effortlessly combines hard-nosed cops, mafia dons, and supernatural events with convincing ease. The prose is music. He had me reading late into the night."
– STEPHEN KING
About the author
Carsten Stroud is the author of Cuba Strait, Black Water Transit, the award-winning Sniper's Moon, and other novels.
His non-fiction titles include Deadly Force; Iron Bravo, chosen for the US Army's recommended reading list; and the New York Times bestseller Close Pursuit. He lives on the shores of Lake Huron.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of this adrenaline-filled supernatural thriller from bestseller Stroud (the Niceville trilogy), Sgt. Jack Redding of the Florida Highway Patrol chases a speeding truck, whose driver, serial killer Selena D'Arcy, eventually pulls over and escapes into the surrounding woods. Selena and members of a crime family later break into Jack's home and get into a gunfight with him. When Selena runs toward a shimmering light, she travels back in time 61 years to 1957 with Jack on her tail. Jack finds himself in the backseat of a police car belonging to his grandfather, Clete Redding, who's also pursuing Selena. This situation presents Jack with a harrowing decision: whether to help Clete catch Selena or try to alter the past to save the lives of his wife and four-year-old daughter, who died in a car crash in 2017. Each choice has potentially grave repercussions for Jack and the people he cares for. Fans of Stephen King's 11/22/63 will find a lot to like.
