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| Coming September 1, 2015 |
BOOKLIST,
City of Echoes
STARRED REVIEW BY DON CRINKLAW
"Know what a Chelsea Grin is?
Readers who stay with Ellis’ powerhouse of a novel are going to find out, and
their response to this incredible bit of cruelty is sure to be mixed. Most will
side with Matt Jones, Ellis’ hard-bitten L.A. homicide detective, who thought
he’d seen everything. Even he is 'unable to comprehend how anyone, no matter
what their psychological issues . . . could do this to any living thing.'”
Jones
is a bystander to the crime that ignites the plot: a teacher’s affair with his
student that ends horribly. Why do the arresting officers start dying? Why do
murders continue after the presumed killer is caught? Characters multiply and
the plot grows ever more complex, but Ellis keeps everything in focus while
building a staggering forward momentum. Then a tsunami of revelations and
reversals begins, each put forth with stunning emotional force as everything
Jones—and the reader—knew for sure is turned on its head. Awesome, as the kids say,
but not necessarily right for late-night reading. Not with those Chelsea Grins."
*****
AUTHOR'S NOTE
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| Robert Ellis |
I sensed that there was
something different about CITY OF ECHOES while I was researching the novel. But
it really hit home when I finished writing the second chapter. I knew that this
one would be special. I also knew that meeting LAPD detective Matt Jones and
the characters in this novel would be an experience I would never forget.
With a Starred Review
from Booklist we're off to a great
start. When the novel comes out this September, I hope you will love reading it as
much as I did writing it. This is a thriller, pure and simple, a really scary
story.
Sleep Loose,
Robert
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