Niceville

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

A compelling work that grabs your attention from page one

Reminds me of Peter Straub at his finest – sends a shiver down the spine

Terrific dialogue and wild story make this a great read

An unfolding tale about every kind of wickedness... Somehow it manages to get tighter, nastier, and more delightful as it rolls toward its lovely and completely black-hearted final pages

CARSTEN STROUD is a New York Times bestselling writer of fiction and nonfiction. His novels include Sniper's Moon, Lizard Skin, Black WaterTransit, Cuba Straight and Cobraville. He lives in Toronto with his wife.

When ten-year-old Rainey Teague disappears on his way home from school in idyllic Niceville, Detective Nick Kavanaugh traces the boy to his last sighting - staring into the window of old pawn shop in town. CCTV shows Rainey there one minute and then gone the next. In the days that follow, any hope Rainey's family has of finding him alive starts to fade but then Rainey is found - alive but in a coma, and there's no telling when, or if, he'll ever wake up... 
 
One year on, Kavanagh is still haunted by the case. And now another member of the town - this time an elderly woman - has been reported missing. It's as though she vanished into thin air. Once again, Kavanagh's on the case and, as he starts to dig back through the town's history, he can't help but notice that Niceville has a much higher than average number of stranger abductions...

Carsten Stroud

Chuck in an old ghost story and an Indian no-go area and you're deep in Stephen King country - and loving it!

When two plane crashes set off a spellbinding chain reaction of murder, inadvertent kidnapping, corporate corruption and financial double-dealing, Niceville detective Nick Kavanaugh has to investigate. 
 
To add to his worries, he and his wife, Kate, have also just taken in brutally orphaned Rainey Teague. Something bothers Nick about Rainey - and it isn't just that the woman in charge of attendance at Rainey's school has suspiciously disappeared. In fact, people have long been disappearing from seemingly placid Niceville, including, most disturbingly, Kate's father. 
 
Using his files, Kate and Nick start to unearth Niceville's blood-stained history, but something (or is it Nothing?) stands in their way ...

Carsten Stroud

Praise for The Homecoming

Chuck in an old ghost story and an Indian no-go area and you're deep in Stephen King country - and loving it!

Books by Carsten Stroud

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