Van Jensen

A gripping blend of sci-fi mystery and small-town suspense, Godfall delivers an unforgettable ride.

RON HOWARD, Academy Award-winning director

I felt slapped awake by Godfall’s brilliant conceit and the profound change witnessed in a small town that suddenly finds itself on a global - and even cosmic - stage. This book is thought-provoking, awe-inspiring, and visionary but always grounded in human particulars.

BENJAMIN PERCY, writer of Marvel's Wolverine

Engrossing, genre bending . . . will have you staying up long past your bedtime.

KARIN SLAUGHTER, internationally bestselling crime novelist

A fresh and surprising genre mashup, bringing a laconic small-town sheriff together with a crash-landed alien and a series of brutal killings, beautifully interweaving otherworldly images and naturalistic details of rural Nebraska life. Van Jensen is a terrific writer, and I was under the book’s strange and extraordinary spell from start to finish!

The genre-mashup novel of my dreams. With breathtaking imagery and razor-sharp prose, Van Jensen gives us a story that is part alien sci-fi, part mystery - with a doomsday cult, a serial killer, and a dash of Sandhill cranes - all set against the beautiful backdrop of rural Nebraska.

ERIN FLANAGAN, Edgar Award–winning author of Deer Season and Blackout

Van Jensen delivers the sense-bending strange in this tale of mystery and wonder.

Godfall blends rural noir with a daring dose of sci-fi to create something wholly new and engaging. Van Jensen comes in hot with his [fiction] debut.

ALEX SEGURA, author of Secret Identity and Miami Midnight  

It isn’t easy to infuse magical realism with grit, but Godfall does it with panache. I was under Van Jensen’s spell from the first chapter. A striking debut novel from one of my favourite writers.

Van Jensen

Praise for Godfall

**A gripping blend of sci-fi mystery and small-town suspense, Godfall delivers an unforgettable ride.**

**I felt slapped awake by Godfall’s brilliant conceit and the profound change witnessed in a small town that suddenly finds itself on a global - and even cosmic - stage. This book is thought-provoking ...**

Engrossing, genre bending . . . will have you staying up long past your bedtime.

**A gripping blend of sci-fi mystery and small-town suspense, Godfall delivers an unforgettable ride.**

**I felt slapped awake by Godfall’s brilliant conceit and the profound change witnessed in a small town that suddenly finds itself on a global - and even cosmic - stage. This book is thought-provoking ...**

Engrossing, genre bending . . . will have you staying up long past your bedtime.

**A gripping blend of sci-fi mystery and small-town suspense, Godfall delivers an unforgettable ride.**

**I felt slapped awake by Godfall’s brilliant conceit and the profound change witnessed in a small town that suddenly finds itself on a global - and even cosmic - stage. This book is thought-provoking ...**

Engrossing, genre bending . . . will have you staying up long past your bedtime.

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