Senseless
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4.2 • 12 Ratings
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
A page-turning, supernaturally-tinged LA puzzle-box thriller – Zodiac with teeth, from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated and bestselling author of Come with Me. Perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Lauren Beukes.
What do you see...?
When the mutilated body of a young woman is discovered in the desert on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the detective assigned to the case can't deny the similarities between this murder and one that occurred a year prior. Media outlets are quick to surmise this is the work of a budding serial killer, but Detective Bill Renney is struggling with an altogether different scenario: a secret that keeps him tethered to the husband of the first victim.
What do you hear...?
Maureen Park, newly engaged to Hollywood producer Greg Dawson, finds her engagement party crashed by the arrival of Landon, Greg’s son. A darkly unsettling young man, Landon invades Maureen’s new existence, and the longer he stays, the more convinced she becomes that he may have something to do with the recent murder in the high desert.
What do you feel...?
Toby Kampen, the self-proclaimed Human Fly, begins an obsession over a woman who is unlike anyone he has ever met. A woman with rattlesnake teeth and a penchant for biting. A woman who has trapped him in her spell. A woman who may or may not be completely human.
In Ronald Malfi's brand-new thriller, these three storylines converge to create a tapestry of deceit, distrust, and unapologetic horror. A brand-new novel of dark suspense set in the City of Angels, as only “horror’s Faulkner” can tell it.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Malfi (Come with Me) takes readers on a tense thrill ride that evokes the thickest and nastiest paperback horror novels of decades past. In the first of three connected threads, a mutilated body in the California dessert draws Los Angeles detective Bill Renny back into a murder case he hoped would stay closed. Meanwhile, in the Hollywood Hills, struggling writer Maureen and her fiancé, Greg, celebrate their engagement—until Greg's violently unstable son, Landon, crashes the party. When a partygoer confides that he's discovered evidence connecting Landon to the recent murder, Maureen is drawn into the same web of intrigue as Bill. The final and freakiest thread follows Toby Kampen, who identifies as "the Human Fly" and haunts the dive bars of downtown L.A. When he meets a woman who might be a vampire, he devotes himself to proving he's worthy of a monstrous transformation. Malfi allows these characters to orbit and intersect with each other in surprising ways as the plot's complex mysteries play out, balancing enjoyably creepy supernatural elements with a gritty detective yarn. Some sections feel shaggy, and the ending isn't particularly neat, but there's fun to be had in all the goopy, gory weirdness. Seasoned horror readers will find plenty to enjoy in Malfi's darkly intricate world of arcane surprises.
