Shadow Season

A Novel

De: Tom Piccirilli

Narrado por: Elijah Alexander

An ex-cop, Finn was left literally blinded by violence. The one thing he can still see is the body of his wife, Dani, and a crime scene that won’t fade from his mind’s eye. Now a teacher, Finn never would have guessed that an isolated girls’ prep school could be every bit as dangerous as city streets. Especially when he stumbles upon a local girl lying in a graveyard in the middle of a raging blizzard.

Finn may live in a world of total darkness, but it’s about to get a splash of red. The memories that torment him still have the power to kill, and a group of innocent students has been put in harm’s way by a pair of vicious criminals stalking Finn for unknown reasons. Secrets are creeping from the shadows around him - the kind that even a man with perfect vision never sees until it’s too late. They’re about to become terrifyingly clear to Finn - and it all begins with the scent of blood.

©2009 Tom Piccirilli (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Tom Piccirilli straddles genres with the boldness of the best writers today, blending suspense and crime fiction into tight, brutal masterpieces.” (James Rollins, New York Times best-selling author)

“A brooding, character-driven chiller.” ( Publishers Weekly)

“Tom Piccirilli is at the forefront of the new breed of crime writers, welding his sense of history to a modern sensibility, creating a strong new voice.” (Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition)

Very Unique Voice & Excellent Book

The story is told from 2 time spans. Flynn’s past as a police officer and Flynn’s present as a blind private school teacher. Flynn is very introspective; He examines and re-feels his past. One is immediately drawn to Flynn. He is 100% real & genuine.

Normally, I do not like or read books with swearing. This book has swearing. But, the swearing is appropriate and aids in character development and realistic dialogue.

Normally, I do not like or read graphic sex. This book had incidents of graphic sex. Once again, it revealed who Flynn really was, what he felt, how he handled his own desires. The scenes belonged in the book.

The narrator, Elijah Alexander was superb. He was an excellent Flynn. He did wonderful voices...raspy cigarette voice for Judith, Irish brogue for Murphy, kinda bronxish for Roy.

I was not familiar with the author, Tom Piccirilli, when I started this book (Audible & ebook). The book immediately struck me as quite different in so many aspects from the main stream mystery genre that I looked him up. The author succumbed to brain cancer in 2015, at age 50. He wrote numerous books, short stories and poems. He won a bunch of awards and was submitted for many others. This book was written in 2009, the audible in 2012. The author’s own website is down & I couldn’t find out if the author was already fighting the brain cancer. My guess, is that he was already fighting for his life because that comes across so well from his protagonist.

I think this has been my best audible listen, so far.