Blake Crouch

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD - NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV+ A "mind-blowing" (Entertainment Weekly) speculative thriller about an ordinary man who awakens in a world inexplicably different from the reality he thought he knew--from the author of Upgrade, Recursion, and the Wayward Pines trilogy "Are you happy with your life?" Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the kidnapper knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man he's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." In this world he's woken up to, Jason's life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college professor but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible. Is it this life or the other that's the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how will Jason make it back to the family he loves? From the bestselling author Blake Crouch, Dark Matter is a mind-bending thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we'll go to claim the lives we dream of.

Mystisen menestystrilogian päätösosa!Painajaiseksi muuttuneen unelmakaupungin asukkaat joutuvat punnitsemaan, onko makea valhe sittenkin parempi kuin katkera totuus.Wayward Pines näyttää idylliseltä pikkukaupungilta, mutta todellisuudessa siellä eletään kaupungin perustajan, David Pilcherin, raudanlujassa komennossa. Pois ei voi lähteä, ellei mieli päästä hengestään. Mutta nyt Pilcher kätyreineen on mennyt liian pitkälle. Kaupungissa kolme viikkoa seriffinä ollut salaisen palvelun agentti Ethan Burke ei aio enää katsoa toimettomana vierestä. Mutta Pilcherin kosto on kauhea. Pystyykö Ethan pelastamaan Wayward Pinesin, viimeisen kaupungin?"Ytimiin käyvän rouhea trilleri, jota ahmin nälkään nääntyvän tahdilla." -Rakkaudesta kirjoihin blogi Wayward PinesistaBlake Crouch (s. 1978) on amerikkalainen trilleristi, jonka kirjat ovat myyneet jo yli miljoona kappaletta. Crouch tunnetaan lajityypin rajoja venyttävästä jännityksestä ja huiman koukuttavista juonista. Hänen Wayward Pines -trilogiastaan on tehty tv-sarja, jonka pääosassa nähtiin Matt Dillon. Innokkaana alppihiihtäjänä tunnettu Crouch asuu perheineen Coloradossa.

On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman and child in a remote gold mining town disappeared, belongings forsaken, meals left to freeze in vacant cabins, and not a single bone was ever found. One hundred thirteen years later, two backcountry guides are hired by a history professor and his journalist daughter to lead them into the abandoned mining town so that they can learn what happened. With them is a psychic, and a paranormal photographer as the town is rumored to be haunted. A party that tried to explore the town years ago was never heard from again. What this crew is about to discover is that twenty miles from civilization, with a blizzard bearing down, they are not alone, and the past is very much alive."

From newcomer Jordan Crouch and Blake Crouch, author of the runaway bestseller Run, comes Eerie, a chilling, gothic thriller in the classic tradition of The Shining and The Sixth Sense. TRAPPED INSIDE A HOUSE On a crisp autumn evening in 1980, seven-year-old Grant Moreton and his five-year-old sister Paige were nearly killed in a mysterious accident in the Cascade Mountains that left them orphans. WITH A FRIGHTENING POWER It's been thirty years since that night. Grant is now a detective with the Seattle Police Department and long estranged from his sister. But his investigation into the bloody past of a high-class prostitute has led right to Paige's door, and what awaits inside is beyond his wildest imagining. OVER ANYONE WHO ENTERS His only hope of survival and saving his sister will be to confront the terror that inhabits its walls, but he is completely unprepared to face the truth of what haunts his sister's brownstone.

A gigantic double horror/thriller novel featuring 21 different serial killers...For everyone who thinks the bad guys are so much more fun to read than the good guys, this is a book just for you. The definitive volume containing every major villain from the Crouch/Konrath Universe is here.If you haven't read anything by Crouch or Konrath, Serial Killers Uncut is the perfect introduction to the dark side of their universe. And if you enjoy a despicable bad guy (or bad girl), you're going to love this.There are close to two dozen serial killers featured in this book: Orson and Luther from Desert Places, Locked Doors, and Stirred, Mr. K from Shaken, Alex and Charles Kork from Whiskey Sour and Rusty Nail, Isaiah from Abandon, Taylor from Afraid, Javier from Snowbound, Donaldson and Lucy, plus many, many more.There are some good guys too, including Andrew Z. Thomas (Desert Places, Locked Doors), Jack Daniels (Whiskey Sour, Shaken), Violet King (Locked Doors, Break You), Tequila (Shot of Tequila), and Clayton Theel (Draculas).Serial Killers Uncut is an original 120,000 word double novel that stands alone without having read any of Konrath's or Crouch's work. If you are a more sensitive (or adventurous) reader, this handy scale rates specific categories from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest) to give you some idea if this is your kind of book.SERIAL KILLERS UNCUT by Crouch and KonrathBad Language - 6Scary - 8Violent - 8Funny - 4Sexy - 2Crossovers - Contains characters from Konrath's Jack Daniels Thrillers series, Timecaster series, and Blake Crouch's Luther Kite series

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Famous is the darkly funny standalone thriller from Blake Crouch, the bestselling author of Dark Matter, for fans of Stephen King and Dean Koontz* * *Meet Lance. 38-years-old. Works a meaningless job. Still lives above his parents’ garage. By all accounts, a world-class loser.Except for one glaring exception . . . he has a million-dollar face. Lance has been mistaken twenty-eight times for the Oscar-winning movie star, James Jansen, and for the last 10 years, he’s saved his money, studied Jansen’s films, his moves, his idiosyncrasies, even the way he speaks. Now, after an unceremonious termination from his job, Lance has decided that the time has come to go after his dream.From New York’s ridiculous avant-garde, off-off Broadway scene, to the surreal glitter of Los Angeles, follow Lance on his madcap journey of self-abandonment to become his likeness. Part comedy, part human tragedy, and part suspense, the world through the eyes of Lancelot Blue Dunkquist is like none you’ve ever seen.* * *Praise for Blake Crouch:Blake Crouch has invented his own brand of page-turner – fearlessly genre-bending, consistently surprising, and determined to explode the boundaries of what a thriller can be - Karin Slaughter, author of Pretty GirlsBlake Crouch has a mind like Crichton and a heart like King - David Koepp, author of Cold StorageCrouch isn’t just a world-class thriller writer, he’s a Philip K. Dick for the modern age - Gregg Hurwitz, author of Orphan X