Book Review: 'the Ridge'

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Sun, 06/26/2011 - 9:00pm

In his eighth novel, Michael Koryta has fashioned an engrossing supernatural thriller about the isolated lives of townspeople along a mysterious Kentucky road.After just three novels in the Lincoln Perry series, Michael Koryta defied the dictates of serial crime fiction and took a purposeful walk in another direction. "Envy the Night," his first standalone novel, was a taut tale of revenge that garnered him accolades and a 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for mystery-thriller.

Topics: envy the night, so cold the river the cypress house, kentucky lincoln perry los angeles times book prize koryta dennis lehane stephen king michael koryta perry crime novels

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