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Dying Memories/Godchild (2 in 1 Edition) [Kindle Edition]

Dave Zeltserman , Vincent Zandri
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This 2 in 1 Edition features two of the hottest thriller writers of our day. Vincent Zandri and Dave Zeltserman.

"Zeltserman is the author of increasingly accomplished crime novels, distinguished by spare and crisp prose, believable dialogue, imaginative plot twists and tightly wound characters who don't wear out their welcome."
-Newsday

"Superb mix of humor and horror...Zeltserman orchestrates events perfectly...Readers will keep turning pages to see how the ambiguous plot resolves."
-Publishers Weekly

"A strong piece of work, lean and spare, but muscular where a noir novel should be."
-The Boston Globe

"A tough-minded, involving novel...Zandri writes strong prose that rarely strains for effect, and some of his scenes...achieve a powerful hallucinatory horror."
-Publishers Weekly

"Sensational...masterful...brilliant."
-New York Post

"Probably the most arresting first crime novel to break into print this season."
-Boston Herald

DYING MEMORIES
When you can't trust your memories.

A woman shoots a man to death on a crowded street in Boston, claiming that he raped and murdered her eleven-year old daughter. Except he didn't, because this woman never had a daughter. Another man stabs an MIT professor to death in front of a crowd in Harvard Square, saying that he witnessed the professor running down his wife in the street. Except the MIT professor was three thousand miles away when the man's wife was killed.

Reporter Bill Conway discovers that these victims are connected to ViGen Corporation, a shadowy pharmaceutical company. When he tries to investigate ViGen Corporation and their role in these deaths, he soon finds himself framed for murder. And that turns out to be the least of his problems...

GODCHILD
He wanted justice, truth, revenge...whichever came first.

Prison-warden-turned-P.I. Jack "Keeper" Marconi understands the criminal mind. And he knows what it takes to break a man. His own life came apart the day a black Buick broadsided his car-and his wife died horrifically in the seat beside him.

Years later, on the eve of his second marriage, Marconi catches a split-second glimpse of the driver who killed his wife. Suddenly hurtled back into the past, he is determined to take one last shot at hunting him down. That is, until he is offered a job he can't refuse: to bust a beautiful woman out of a hellish Mexican prison. Now Keeper's chase through Mexico follows a trail of bodies and lies back home: to the truth about a woman on the run, to a man sitting behind the wheel of a black Buick, and to a story that someone will kill to bury...

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 754 KB
  • Publisher: StoneGate Ink; 1 edition (May 3, 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B004Z9BXWQ
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dying Memories is Brilliant Psychological Suspense, February 17, 2012
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In Dying Memories by Dave Zeltserman, Boston newspaper reporter Bill Conway is in trouble. The worst kind of trouble possible. He's been accused of murdering an ex-girlfriend and her fiancé, and not only does he retain no recollection of the event, he swears he's become embroiled in a conspiracy that involves a major drug company, the police, and maybe even the U.S. government. And the crime reporter has the proof and the front-page cover story to prove it.

I've read Dave Zeltserman's "man out of prison" series and since then have become hooked on a writer whom I believe is a contemporary master of the noir genre. I don't give that accolade out lightly since I'm still learning the craft myself. In fact, I give the title "master" only to the likes of a few: Charlie Huston, Boston Terran, Michael Connelly, Don Winslow and a maybe a handful of others among them. But the Boston native's new offering is more than just noir. It's psychological suspense thriller in its purist paranoid Hitchcockian form. Another rave I'm not passing on lightly.

The novel, which begins with a cold blooded murder that occurs in plain daylight in a popular Boston common, seems to innocently (if you'll excuse the pun) start off as a police procedural, a form I most definitely would expect Zeltserman to attack with his usual skills. But quickly enough it becomes apparent that this novel is more than that as memory flashbacks to Conway's troubled and abusive childhood become mixed with new memories created in real-time. Memories that might in fact be manufactured by some evil goons, one of whom in particular has pink skin and beady little eyes. The goons wear black, wield hypodermic needles and transport themselves in a white unmarked van. In pure noir tradition, there's also a beautiful woman involved who manages to attract the newspaper man into her life and bed. And you-guessed-it, he's only just met her.

Dying Memories is so tight and tension-filled it just might qualify as "The Book to Keep You Up All Night of the Week." One thing is for sure, it will keep you guessing until the very end. Just as importantly (and this is where all Zeltserman fans luck out), it also represents a new path the noir novelist is taking with his writing. No doubt my next review will be singing the praises of Dave Zeltserman, master of the psychological suspense thriller.
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