The Big Thrill sat down with Adams to ask about his roller-coaster storylines, how he maximizes the pressure on characters, and striking the right tone.Ī reader who gives an author a one-star review, but then has to face his revenge-a deceptively simple, but not very common premise. Could Kline have her in his crosshairs as the plot for his next book?Īward-winning author Taylor Adams, whose four other acclaimed novels include No Exit and Hairpin Bridge, piles on terror laced with heart-stopping twists, until you can’t imagine what will happen next. As she probes Kline’s background, she discovers his sixteen novels are all sadistic tales of stalking and murder. When strange occurrences happen-a ghostly figure in her bedroom late at night and other disturbances-Emily wonders if the author might be stalking her. Kane, whose real name is Howard Grosvenor Kline, demands she retract her review, but she refuses. Emily’s only neighbor, a quarter mile away, is Deek Cowl a man with whom she communicates via messages written on a whiteboard and viewed through a telescope. Alone in a remote beach house on the rain-swept Washington coast, she walks her dog Laika along the beach and reads cheap novels to escape the pain of a personal loss. Kane a one-star review for his poorly written novel. In one of the creepiest thrillers you’ll read this year, schoolteacher Emily Carpenter has no idea what she’s getting into when she gives author H.
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