Envy the Night by Michael Koryta
Publisher: "New York, New York, U.S.A.: Minotaur Books", 2008
ISBN: 9780312361587
ID: S00010276
Flat Signed! Hardcover first edition / first printing. Fine book in fine jacket, not price clipped, Signed on the title page and is author's signature only. Minimum scuffing and edge wear. No writing or marks Comes with Certificate of Authenticity for author's signature.
Price in US $ 31.50
Summary: Ridley Pearson on "Envy the Night" Reading James Crumley and John D. MacDonald set the writing hook in me: I wanted to write mysteries and thrillers. I wanted to be a storyteller. Now, in Michael Koryta, all these years later, I've read the heir apparent to those masters. There is grit and determination in Michael's writing; there is heart and character; the threat of violence first simmers, then boils over. The pulse quickens. "Envy The Night" is everything this kind of novel is meant to be. A more fitting title: "Envy The Writer". It has been a long time since I've enjoyed a mystery novel as much as "Envy The Night". This book had me from the first page, and much to my surprise, kept me reading hard and fast until the last. What separates this book from others? One word: characters. Stories are stories. We all read (and write) a ton of them. But we come to novels to meet fresh faces, and Michael Koryta delivers. This diabolical mystery novel, laid out in simple but eloquent prose and pitch-perfect dialogue, heralds a changing of the guard. I have seen the future of "The Best Mystery Writer in America" and its name is Michael Koryta. "--Ridley Pearson"
A Welcome Grave by Michael Koryta
Publisher: USA: Thomas Dunne Books, 2007
ISBN: 9780312340117
ID: S00010275
Flat Signed! Hardcover first edition / first printing. Fine book in fine jacket, not price clipped, Signed on the title page and is author's signature only. Minimum scuffing and edge wear. No writing or marks Comes with Certificate of Authenticity for author's signature.
Price in US $ 31.50
Summary: "Sometime after midnight, on a moonless October night turned harsh by a fine, windswept rain, one of the men I liked least in the world was murdered in a field near Bedford, just south of the city....The detectives went looking for suspects--- people whose histories with Jefferson were adversarial and hostile. At the top of that list, they found me."
