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Widow's Walk

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This book is, in my opinion, the Ultimate Horror Novel - it is horror, it is thriller, it is mystery, and it is a runaway train ride that will propel you to the most satisfying conclusion I have ever seen a writer craft. To quote from WIDOW'S WALK: "When a living thing is killed by another living thing, it's always murder." How can a line like that at the beginning of a story, presenting such a unique perspective, fail to captivate us right until the very last word?

Steve Beai knows how to grab your attention and not let you go until that final page. Set aside several hours of uninterrupted reading, because if you're forced to put this book down before finishing it, you'll be thinking of nothing else but when you'll be able to pick it up again and jump right back onto that hurtling train.

Beai horrifies with an elegant flair: "He turned at the sound of the voice in time to see Alvy swing one of his father's knives, a machete, toward him. Then, he had a momentary glimpse of the ceiling, then a sampler on the wall that said Mom's Kitchen, then he closed his eyes as his head cracked against the floor, opening them again to see his feet standing in the kitchen doorway, and the last thing he saw was his body, still standing there stupidly without a head, *his* head, and before he could think to wonder why his body didn't have a head, he stopped thinking at all." The entire novel is THAT flawlessly written. I can add nothing more to persuade you to buy this book than to have given you these words of Steve Beai himself.

You simply must, if you read only one "Horror" novel in your lifetime, read WIDOW'S WALK by Steve Beai.

Here we have a rather strange combination of ingredients: fully-developed characters we care about, excellent, evocative descriptive passages, and a really whacked-out premise. It's one of those books that is good, but in a strange way. Scary? Maybe not...but it does keep you reading.

Rather than follow the current crop of books where college students find a "magical book" or are possessed by witches as an excuse for sexual experimentation, not to mention movies with the narcissistic tedium of "Blair Witch", Widow's Walk takes the reader back to timeless, if out of vogue fears. Introducing menace at every turn, the author weaves this tale, along with a few startling and satisfying subplots, effortlessly to an explosive climax. Filled with colorful characters as well as a tangible evil in the form of sinister creatures roaming a quiet suburban neighborhood, the book heads with non-stop action to one of the most cinematic conclusions possibly ever to have been put on paper. Highly recommended.