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Stuart MacBride – Shatter the bones. Love Logan and Steel. Lee Childs – The Affair. What’s to say, Reacher is the man. Val McDermid – Trick of the dark. Always surprises. Marianne de Pierres – Burn Bright and Angel Arias. A new world to play in. Sue Grafton – U is for undertow. Gotta love Kinsey.
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| THE HASTINGS CLUB 155 Marine Parade HASTINGS Sunday 27th November, 2011 2-4pm |
$10 entry: Finger Food & Fun Drinks at Bar Prices Door Prizes Books for Sale INFO & BOOKINGS: 0439 007 638 |
18th Annual Scarlet Stiletto Awards – new lineup| Unfortunately, Kris Wyld is now unable to present the Scarlet Stiletto Awards this Friday night.
The good news is that replacing her will be Melbourne’s own P D (Phillipa) Martin, author of 6 internationally-published crime novels set in the US and featuring ex-patriate FBI profiler Sophie Anderson. Phillipa will present prizes, certificates and special Scarlet Stiletto t-shirts to the 17 shortlisted authors. |
In the first part of the evening, hear from The Famous Five – Sisters in Crime convenor and author, Lindy Cameron, in fierce debate about the art of the criminally good short story with four previous Scarlet Stiletto Award trophy winners: Eleanor Marney (2010); Amanda Wrangles (2009); Evelyn Tsitis (2007); and Liz Filleul (2009). Expect lashings of wine and much more. |
Author in Focus: Alan Baxter
Interview by: Kylie Fox
Alan Baxter is a British-born, Australian author, motorcycle enthusiast and martial arts instructor.
His dark fantasy duology RealmShift and MageSign are available from Gryphonwood Press. (See my review of RealmShift here.)
Alan is a prolific writer with short stories, novellas and novelettes appearing in many anthologies both in print and online. He also writes reviews and opinion pieces that are always informative and entertaining – you can find these on his blog The Word According to Me!
Alan’s expertise in martial arts ensures that he always writes the fight right – and he’s written an ebook with precisely that title to help other writers create believable fight scenes.
Alan has several stories due for release next year, you’ll find the details on his website.
Here’s a snippet of what’s happening in the world of Alan Baxter right now.
Kylie: You have a short story making an appearance in “The One That Got Away”, a crime anthology to be released early next year. Can you tell us
about that story and how you, who usually focuses more on horror and dark fantasy, came to be published in a crime anthology? (Alongside the likes of Lawrence Block and the boys from Crime Factory, no less!)
Alan: It’s very exciting this one – the ToC is awesome. Initially I thought I’d written a horror story, albeit a non-supernatural one. Two horror editors I submitted to both came back with, “This story is great, but it’s more a crime story than horror.” When I got that response the second time, I figured I should pay attention, so I sent it out to Dark Prints Press for their crime antho, the theme of which was perfect for the story. And that was that. I’ve always wanted to write more crime, and noirish tropes sneak into a lot of my work, so I guess it’s not that much of a leap.
Kylie: As I’ve said, most of your work falls more into the category of dark fantasy, but I’d argue that there is still very much a crime basis for most of your work. How do you think crime fits in with other genres?
Alan: I have trouble with genres in general. I usually tell people that I write dark speculative fiction, and that in itself crosses many genres. But I’ve always loved noir crime stories and mysteries and a lot of my speculative fiction is based around crime or mystery tropes. I think the ideas covered by crime fiction make wonderful fodder for stories of all kinds. And there is often a crime or mystery element in pretty much any story you can imagine.
Kylie: Do you think that too much emphasis is put on classifying books into genres given that so many blur the lines between one and another?
Alan: I really do. I understand that genres are necessary, and help people to understand what they might be in for, but I think they’re restrictive too. So many people say, “Oh, I don’t like science fiction” but they love Star Wars or Doctor Who. There are all kinds of SF, all kinds of fantasy and so on. In many ways it’s a carry over from brick and mortar book stores, who always need to shelve like books with like. With the advent of online shopping, categorising books by genre is becoming far less relevant.
Kylie: You write across several genres, including horror, dark fantasy, crime and science fiction – some even crossing several genres in the space of one story! For example, “Ghost of the Black: A ‘verse Full of Scum”, which is a very noir crimey sci fi novella.
What is it that characterises an “Alan Baxter” book, regardless of the genre?
Alan: That’s actually a really hard question to answer. I’m not sure I know! I always try to tell a fast-paced exciting story that delves into the human condition in one way or another. Most, thought not all, of my stories have some kind of supernatural, magical or science-fictional angle. Many have a crime or mystery premise, though certainly not all. All my fiction does tend to be dark, often verging on horrific. But I’ve written some lighter stuff and even the occasional happy ending. Although most of my happy endings, few though they are, are quite bittersweet. I hope that an Alan Baxter book is recognisable more by my voice and style than by any common theme. And in the end, I don’t really mind if people recognise an Alan Baxter story as being that or not – I just hope they enjoy and are entertained by my work. The work itself, and people’s enjoyment of it, is more important to me than my recognition as the author.
Kylie: You have a novelette being serialised in four parts starting in January. The idea of serialising, though not a new idea (thank you, Mr Dickens!) is making a resurgence in popularity. Do you see this as one of the possible “new waves” of the future of publishing given the state of “traditional” publishing at the moment?
Alan: Most definitely. I originally serialised Ghost Of The Black on my website, posting a new episode every Monday for 34 weeks during 2008, though it’s available complete as an ebook now. Ebooks and online magazines are giving new life to two classic forms of writing – the serial and the novella, both of which I love. And both of which are notoriously hard to sell. I’m really pleased with the serial coming out in January. It’s about 18,000 words, so long novelette/short novella length, but I think that’s a perfect length for this sort of story. It’s being published by a great online magazine called The Red Penny Papers, who publish regular e-issues of short fiction, interspersed with serialised longer work.
This story, The Darkest Shade Of Grey, is one of the best things I’ve written to date (if I may say so myself) so I’m really excited to see it published. It’s another dark urban fantasy that uses some crime tropes as its base – a rather broken, alcoholic reporter, with some supernatural power of his own, stumbles across what could be the story of his career. But it’s a mystery that he starts to unravel at his peril.
I think we’ll be seeing a lot more of these kinds of publications now that online and ebook publishing is gaining such momentum, and I think that’s great for authors, emerging and established alike. Apart from anything else, readers can get a feel for an author’s work with a smaller commitment of time and money by reading novella-length or serialised work, which may then tempt them to go and buy that author’s novel-length work.
Kylie: On the same note, how do you see trends in publication and the consumption of books changing in the near future?
Alan: I think ebooks will quickly become our primary consumption medium for stories. Print books will never go away completely, but they’ll become more artefacts, in limited editions, or available print-on-demand rather than offset print runs. I see this as a good thing – our bookshelves will only hold our most treasured physical artefacts, yet we’ll have access to thousands of great stories at a reduced cost, on a single device, saving trees and space. And hopefully, given the greater ease of access to ebooks in the developed world, we’ll see authors selling more stories, and readers trying out more authors too.
Print books will still be essential, especially to get stories and knowledge out to places without ebook technology, or even power to charge devices, but print-on-demand makes that a very viable prospect. It wouldn’t surprise me if, not long from now, pretty much all releases are mainly ebooks, with POD options available.
Kylie: Purely a question for my own benefit, are we going to see a third book featuring the fabulous Isiah (RealmShift & MageSign) any time soon?
Alan: I’ve been asked this question a fair bit. RealmShift and MageSign are a duology, and complete in that sense. There are two Isiah short stories out there – Stand Off, published by Wily Writers, and Running Wild With The Hunt, published by Seven Realms in their anthology, The Game.
I do love the Isiah character and would love to write more with him, but I would need a really good idea. Through the course of RealmShift and MageSign he become very powerful and I think I covered a lot of what he was about, so I don’t want to just churn out more for the sake of it and devalue him as a character. So, nothing in the schedule, but never say never.
Kylie: What’s next for Alan Baxter?
Alan: I’m currently working on a new series, most likely a trilogy. It’s set in the same “universe” developed in RealmShift and MageSign, but with all new characters. There is a very brief Isiah cameo in the first book, and some secondary characters from MageSign crop up as well. The first book is written and out looking for a publisher right now and I’m getting close to halfway on the second. The third in that series is just a small collection of notes and ideas at the moment.
Otherwise I’m always working on short fiction. As well as The Darkest Shade of Grey at Red Penny Papers and In The Name Of The Father in The One That Got Away, I have a sci-fi/horror story coming out in Midnight Echo 6, which should be available any time now, and a sci-fi/horror yarn in Anywhere But Earth, a fantastic anthology from Coeur De Lion, which has just been published and is available now. There are a couple of other short stories slated for publication next year, and hopefully more all the time.
Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5Reviewed by: Janette Dalgliesh
You would expect an autobiography from Dame Stella Rimington, the first woman Director-General of MI5, to be fascinating. And you’d be right.
But perhaps not for the reasons you might expect.
This is not the licence-to-kill world of James Bond, even though Judi Dench’s “M” was apparently inspired by Rimington. This is the real world of a major secret service, seen through the eyes of a woman who worked “at the coalface” for many years, and who believes passionately in the importance of openness and effective communication.
As she puts it “excessive secrecy harms the position of our vital security services rather than protecting it”.
It’s also the world of a working woman, treading the familiar path of juggling career, husband, children and social change. But it’s a brutal and uncomplaining insight into the extra burden faced by a woman working for an idiosyncratic, secretive and—at least to begin with—antiquated secret service replete with eccentric characters, internal tensions and mind-bending bureaucracy.
Following the terrors of a childhood in the Blitz, Rimington did not start out with any concept of working in the secret services. She attained a degree in English from the University of Edinburgh and began a career as an archivist, demonstrating from the beginning a respect for accurate and well-managed information.
The path which took her from those everyday beginnings, via the restrictive life of a diplomatic wife, and on to the top position at MI5 is remarkable. Not
because it’s full of conspiracies and secrets and danger and adventure—although there are plenty of those sprinkled liberally throughout —but because it’s the story of a real woman, with a set of experiences that most of us can relate to.
It’s true that most of us have not been forced out of our homes by an intense and poorly managed media circus, following the announcement of our appointment to a job. And most of us haven’t had to lie to our children about our work. But we can relate to the initial feelings of helplessness and frustration at seeing our loved ones impacted unfairly by our career choices. And we can relate to the moments of taking charge, to find the best solution available at the time.
And that’s what appeals so much about Rimington and her story. She has a quintessentially commonsense approach to everything, whether it’s an urgent call from her child’s school interrupting an important meeting, car troubles in Afghanistan or a sensitive first contact with a wannabe KGB defector.
Her loyalty to the democratic process, and her capacity to remain detached from any particular political ideology, shine through every page. But they don’t stop her from sharing revealing moments in her dealings with the leaders of the day. One of my favourite stories was the much-anticipated first visit by former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to MI5. No doubt Thatcher’s reputation as the “Iron Lady” helped motivate staff in ensuring everything was perfect for her arrival. But after all their hard work, Thatcher’s only concern appeared to be that her whisky wasn’t strong enough.
When Rimington joined the service in 1967, many of the old paradigms still existed. By the time she retired in 1996, she had been instrumental in triggering, implementing or overseeing many significant changes. With typical modesty, she credits many other people for those changes, but it’s clear that her presence and her actions over the years provided a major contribution.
Rimington was the first woman permitted to undertake field work, and it was her cleverly subtle tactics which finally set MI5 on the path to gender equity in pay and conditions. As Director-General she successfully oversaw the publication of a small booklet about MI5 which revealed publicly, for the first time, details of the service’s activities, operations and duties. Behind the scenes, she was involved at senior levels during the long overdue legislative changes which created better accountability and controls for the service.
Perhaps the clearest demonstration of these major cultural changes lies in the area of recruiting.
In the earliest days of the secret service, born in 1909, and for many years afterwards, new staff were recruited via a discreet tap on the shoulder from someone already inside. In 1967, Rimington herself only discovered she was actually working for MI5 after she agreed to assist one of the First Secretaries at the High Commission in India with his office work. Not surprisingly, this approach to hiring staff resulted in a cloning of existing staff and a resultant intensifying of eccentricities and paranoia. In recent decades the system has been radically overhauled and the old boys’ club approach dissolved.
These days, of course, one applies to join MI5 online. I can’t help thinking Rimington would thoroughly approve.
If you’re looking for a spill-the-beans spy romp, this might fit the bill. Rimington certainly spills plenty of beans, not on operational details (which, as she points out, would put lives at risk), but on the deeper, far more important aspects of the secret service.
If you’re in the market for plenty of conspiracies, eccentricities, plots and counter-plots, and an intriguing insight into the mind-twisting machinations of government and the Civil Service, this would do very well.
And if you like a well-told insight into the very human lives of those who take responsibility, usually unknown and unheralded, for our safety—then look no further. This is the book for you.
Reviewed by Cels Jansink:
There’s a new designer in town- and she has Pandora in her sights. Who knew the fashion industry could be so venomous.
It’s now been two months since Pandora first moved to the mysterious Spektor to live with her equally mysterious Great-Aunt Celia. And it’s certainly been anything but boring. She’s encountered counting-obsessed vamps, ghosts, zombies and a myriad of characters she never thought possible.
Now there’s a new threat to New York, and Pandora seems to be a beacon for the strange and unexplained. As if dealing with her snarky boss and trying to work out just what being “The Seventh” means wasn’t enough, she’s again found herself barrelling head first into more trouble. And then there’s Lieutenant Luke…….
The Spider Goddess will deftly ensnare you in its web from the very first page, and hold you tight to the very last. Packed with mystery, evil intentions and things that go bump in the night, Pandora’s world is breathtakingly addictive. The plot has almost a liquid feel and will sweep you away on its current as you pick through the layers of mystery right beside Pandora. Moss has created a world that is dark, Gothic, uniquely funny and often downright terrifying without an overt morbid feel. Pandora has fast become my favourite heroine and I can’t wait to see what danger she leads us into next.
If you haven’t entered the mystifying Spektor yet- make it your next must visit destination. Just beware you may never look at spiders the same way again, or leave home without pockets full of rice.
The next stunning Pandora adventure “The Skeleton Key” is due for release in 2012.
The Spider Goddess- Tara Moss
Pan Macmillan
ISBN:978-1-7426-1003-0
324 Pages.
Fatal Flaw by Sandy Curtis
Published by Clan Destine Press
Trade Paperback, 259 pages
ISBN: 978 0 980 790 092 (pbk)
ISBN: 978 0 987 160 447 (ebook)
Reviewed by: Gaile Hughes
A tantalising read that I fully recommend!
Fatal Flaw, by Queensland author Sandy Curtis, is a powerful, intense thriller about power, betrayal, old loyalties and how past actions and events can shape the future. It also explores the relationship between children and their parents and emerging love through friendship.
Mark Talbert works for the government in a very secret capacity; his major brief is terrorism. Having been shot in the line of duty, he’s taking some time out to reassess his life when he receives a message that cuts short his trip trekking the Queensland highlands – and changes everything.
There has been a break-in at home and his father murdered.
Mark returns home for the funeral, but it is soon apparent that not all is as it seems.
Comforting his step mother at the service is his old childhood friend Julie. Julie, now a single mum, was someone he could always feel comfortable with and confide in. Later, over drinks, he is surprised at the depth of his feelings for her and the intense sexual arousal that sparks between them. Exchanging phone numbers they part with a sense of anticipation.
Mark stays at his father’s house to put all of his affairs in order. Within days, another break-in, this time the intruder knocking Mark unconscious. Surely two break-ins at the same residence and within days of each other cannot be coincidence?
A visit soon after from Mark’s agency informs him that Julie’s father is in business with ‘persons of interest’. Mark is ordered to investigate him, will this deception cost him their new and beautiful relationship?
Seemingly unrelated deaths may be connected to both Julie and Mark’s fathers, and Mark must stay one step ahead of the enemy in order to keep Julie and her son Andy safe. Then her father unknowingly places her in the hands of a terrorist, one who is about to unleash unspeakable horror on the city. However, is there more than one enemy at work?
I loved this story because it had all the usual suspects of a murder, intrigue, international terrorism, and good versus evil, all interwoven with a beautiful love story.
This is Sandy Curtis’ sixth book and the second outing for Mark Talbert, (Dangerous Deception). It is a fast moving, intriguing suspense thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last page.
As some of you will know the first Tara Sharp whodunit appeared on Facebook and was then repeated on this website. Because of FB’s copyright I decided to discontinue them.
Now I’m delighted to say, they’ll be starting again but this time on a tumblr site. It will also host titbits about Tara’s life and loves!
Diary date – 8pm Friday November 25 – Scarlet Stiletto Awards, Rising Sun Hotel, corner Raglan Street & Eastern Road, South Melbourne. Presenter: TV crime actor (TBC)
Don’t forget to have a look at the Sisters in Crime website which is updated regularly and has tons of reviews, news, information and opportunities: www.sistersincrime.org.au
Tara interviewed by Cels Jansink
Not only are you the author of two bestselling series and the host of both “Tough Nuts” and “Tara Moss in Conversation” you’re also a new mum. Do you have any particular techniques when it comes to time management you can share?
I’ve always been very self-motivated, and where there is motivation there is a way. As it happens, I’ve had a wonderfully busy time the past two years with the addition of my new fiction series and TV shows, and having Sapphira hasn’t slowed things down. Having my writer husband Berndt as such a hands-on father has made all the difference to making that possible. We have travelled together as a family for all the work I have done since Sapphira was born, and I’ve been able to continue feeding her, which has been wonderful. She already has a passport. The photo is pretty hilarious.
Crime is obviously one of your biggest passions. You even earned your Certificate III in Private Investigation
at the Australian Security Academy; did you ever dream of entering a career in law enforcement as a child?
Interestingly, I did not give a lot of thought to law enforcement until I began researching my first novel, Fetish. To my memory, I had not even met a police officer before then. But the past 12 years have seen me spend a lot of time in squad cars and at police academies and crime scenes. It has been a fascinating journey.
You have spent time in courtrooms, morgues and toured with both the FBI and LAPD and have even been set on fire and choked unconscious all in the name of research. Are there any other adventures you have planned for future research?
I am always on the look out for new research ideas. Each book brings new research requirements, and now that I am writing Assassin, the sixth Mak Vanderwall novel, I wonder what the next adventure holds. What could top being choked out and set on fire?
You’ve created one formidable crime fighting heroine with Mak Vanderwall and even incorporated an insider view into the modelling industryalongside catching nefarious crims. Is there a little bit of “Tara” hiding in Mak?
It could be said that there is more than a little bit of me in Mak, but although I relate to her, I am careful not to write her as me. She is more like a fictional sister of sorts – someone I understand intimately, and who comes from a similar background. Over the 12 years I have written her, however, she has grown and changed with her circumstances, and in Assassin, which I am writing at the moment, she is a very different person than the one I began writing. The characters I write become their own people.
I must admit “Fetish” in particular had me checking under the bed at night. Have you ever put a character in a situation that has left you with your heart thumping long after the fact?
I always find myself sucked into the scenes I am writing, but some scenes have been much more disturbing in that respect than others. I found it very hard to write the opening sequence of Split, as it was written from the perspective of the victim, and the crimes were based loosely on those of American serial killer Robert Hansen. What he did was truly terrifying. I also found the ending of Siren quite moving to write. Those extreme events are both tragic and strangely liberating for Mak.
You were the first author inducted onto the Australian Walk of Fame for Services to Literature. When you receive an award like this do you get a sense of finally having “made it”?
Life to me is primarily about looking forward, so whilst I am honoured by awards like these, I don’t think there is any such thing as having ‘made it’. Not until I die, anyway. Every day brings new challenges, and that is exactly as it should be.
After bringing us Mak’s heart racing adventures for 12 years; you introduced us to Pandora English and her paranormal life in Spektor. Was this a genre you always wanted to add your voice to?
Absolutely. I first fell in love with the novels of Stephen King when I was just 10 and since then I have been fascinated by stories of horror and the paranormal. I love the writings of Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Charlaine Harris, Neil Gaiman, HP Lovecraft and Anne Rice, and I felt with Pandora that I could add something fresh and at times humorous to the genre.
Pandora not only finds herself finding her way in the big bad city and dealing with obsessive compulsive vamps, but solving a crime or two along the way as well. Could we see Pandora become the new go-to girl when it comes to stranger than normal happenings in Spektor?
Pandora’s unique family heritage has put her right in the thick of it. Whether she wants it or not, she has become a key player in paranormal world – ironic considering she is so hugely underestimated in the ‘normal’ world. I know that if I were faced with the happenings in Spektor I’d want Pandora on my side, and her wise Great Aunt Celia as well.
“Tough Nuts” brings us the true stories of some of our most hardened criminals, has there been one story that has stood out to you personally more than the rest?
I have been moved by many of the stories on Tough Nuts, perhaps none more than the story of John Regan, ‘The Magician’ – a truly reprehensible psychopath we profile in an upcoming episode. He was called ‘The Magician’ because he made people disappear, including a four year old child.
I find Tilly Devine fascinating. As a female crime boss, and our first female ‘Tough Nut’, she was a unique woman who was exploited as an underage prostitute in London and went on to exploit other women in precisely the same way in her brothels, hooking them on cocaine to keep them coming back. The real Tilly wasn’t as pretty and soft as she is often portrayed, and in our profile of her we show her mix of ground breaking business acumen and violent brutality as it was. You don’t get to be Sydney’s ‘queen of vice’ by being nice.
You have interviewed some of the best-known names in crime fiction (including our very own Marianne). Is there a particular author you’re dyingto interview?
It’s been an honour to interview Lynda La Plante, Val McDermid, Ken Follett and Michael Connelly in recent months, and my wish list for future interviews is long and diverse. Stephen King is the author who made me start writing as a child and I would love the opportunity to meet and interview him one day. I’m also keen to interview Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse True Blood novels, and Jeff Lindsay, author of the Dexter series, both of whom I was very close to interviewing this year but couldn’t because of last minute timing issues. Faye Kellerman and Kathy Reichs are also high on my (very long) list.
Which authors dominate your own bookshelves? Who has inspired you in your own career?
I appreciate a variety of authors and genres, and while my crime novels have been influenced by Patricia Cornwell and Thomas Harris, and my Pandora English series influenced by the classic horror novels of Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley, as well as the works of Anne Rice and Charlaine Harris, some of my other favourite authors include Ian McEwan, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Jeff Lindsay, Lynda La Plante, Roald Dahl, Anais Nin, and Margaret Atwood. I also enjoy Australian authors Leigh Redhead, Marianne Delacourt, and more. I could keep going, but I doubt you have the space.
And one just for fun. If you could spend the day with anyone fictional or otherwise; who would it be and why
I would like to spend a day with Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks, eating cherry pie and drinking ‘damn fine’ black coffee. I trust he would keep me safe from the nefarious forces of the Black Lodge. Then I’d like to take to the night sky with Silas from Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book.
Thank you x Tara
The Broken Ones
Stephen M Irwin
Hachette Australia (2011)
ISBN: 978-0-7336-2713-2
Reviewed by: Gaile Hughes
Grey Wednesday happened, and the world changed forever.
The Broken Ones is certainly a different take on genre bending. The story is set in Brisbane a few years in the future, and blends police procedural, supernatural mystery and spec fiction with a touch of grim horror.
The hero Oscar Mariani is a flawed and rumpled, yet incorruptible detective, working in the newly created Nine-Ten Investigation Unit. The unit was formed to deal with crimes related to events that have occurred since ‘Grey Wednesday’, the day the world was thrown into chaos and the unthinkable happened – the dead have risen and everyone is haunted by an ever present, silent and eyeless spectre.
Crime and corruption are rife, and murders and suicides are commonplace. The governments have failed to deal with this catastrophic event and the police are losing control as the economy and resources begin to disintegrate and society fragments.
An apathetic Detective Mariani and his small department are under threat of closure, when a new murder snaps him out of his lethargy. A ritualistic serial killer is murdering young women, and Mariani gets caught up in an investigation that no one wants him to follow.
The world Irwin has created is a bleak place, the horrors visual and grim, with Brisbane portrayed as a wet, sodden and broken city. The story has multiple twists and turns and is tautly plotted, with enough creepiness to keep you awake until the wee hours. The cast of characters are colourful and richly developed; although there is often a surfeit of adjectives. However, it provided rich sensory insights for the reader.
Readers should be aware that the story includes the brutal killing of an animal and, although it does relate to a later event, I felt that it was unnecessary and could have been omitted.
Brisbane author Stephen M Irwin’s first book THE DEAD PATH was published in 2009. It was described as one of the scariest stories of the year. With his second novel THE BROKEN ONES it seems he has taken the readers on another creepy and haunting ride.
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