Headstone City
by Tom Piccirilli
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“Tom Piccirilli is the master of the Southern gothic, quietly building horror where the chills grow with increasing strangeness.”—Denver PostA haunted man must settle his accounts with the living—and the dead. . . .
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 show more death, and that going home would be suicide. But Johnny has unfinished business with his former friend turned mob boss, Vinny Monticelli.
Now Johnny has returned to converse with the doomed and the dead—and wait for Vinny to make his move. Survivors of a long-ago freak accident, the two men 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... show less
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I've only read one other Piccirilli novel, and can't figure out if it's my cup of tea. He has a very lyrical style of writing that is pleasing, with sharp dialogue and memorable characters. This one is a mafia style crime drama with dashes of the supernatural and dark humor. If you like noir style crime fiction then you'll enjoy this. If you like your horror to be subtle, delving into the supernatural, they you'll enjoy this. If you like both, then you should definitely check this out.
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Tom Picirilli, Tom Picirilli has written eight novels, including "Hexes," "Shards," The Night Class," "The Deceased," as well as the Felicity Crown mystery series containing "The Dead Past" and "Sorrow's Crown." He has had over one hundred stories printed in anthologies including, "Future Crimes," "New Mythos Legends" and "The Conspiracy Files," show more as well as the magazines "Cemetary Dance" and "Lore." show less
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- Canonical title
- Headstone City
- People/Characters
- Johnny Danetello; Vinny Monticelli
- First words
- They came after Dane in the showers while he had soap in his eyes.
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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