Moon Lake, Joe R. Lansdale
Moon Lake, Joe R. Lansdale
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Moon Lake

Author: Joe R. Lansdale

Narrator: Jason Culp

Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/22/2021

Synopsis

From an Edgar award-winning author comes the gripping and unexpected tale of a lost town and the dark secrets that lie beneath the glittering waters of an East Texas lake. Daniel Russell was only thirteen years old when his father tried to kill them both by driving their car into Moon Lake. Miraculously surviving the crash—and growing into adulthood—Daniel returns to the site of this traumatic incident in the hopes of recovering his father's car and bones. As he attempts to finally put to rest the memories that have plagued him for years, he discovers something even more shocking among the wreckage that has ties to a twisted web of dark deeds, old grudges, and strange murders.  

As Daniel diligently follows where the mysterious trail of vengeance leads, he unveils the heroic revelation at its core.
 

About Joe R. Lansdale

Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over thirty novels and numerous short stories. His work has appeared in national anthologies, magazines, and collections, as well as numerous foreign publications. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers, and Internet sites. His work has been collected in eighteen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies.

Lansdale has received the Edgar Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize for Literature, the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sadie on June 28, 2021

Review originally published at Tor Nightfire: [URL not allowed]-lake-is... Moon Lake by Joe Lansdale is this year’s summer read. I hesitate to mention that I burned through several chapters in my backyard hammock because it sounds cliche, but I really did and it was magical. Lansdale’s sto......more

Goodreads review by Chad on June 23, 2021

This small-town mystery thriller is sure to appease the Lansdale fans. I loved it. My full review coming from Cemetery Dance soon.......more

Goodreads review by Mike on May 28, 2021

My wife and I were lucky enough to get an ARC from the publishers, i actually danced a little jig when they approved her for the ARC. i have had the book preordered since the announcment, and if you didnt know you can preorder the book and get a signed bookplate if you send in a copy of your preorde......more

Goodreads review by Jim on May 20, 2024

A real page turner, this, the latest by Joe R. Lansdale, kept me up late at night to finish. I give it 5 stars as I thought it was the perfect summer read. Lansdale is a great storyteller and I enjoy his stories, having read several other books of his. He is able to bring some great characters to li......more

Goodreads review by Ronald on April 12, 2021

To be published by Mulholland Books on 22 June 2021 A standalone novel by Joe and a tremendously entertaining one. Reading a Joe R. Lansdale novel is like sitting next to a colorful character at a bar. As he tells you his long yarn, you know he's not being completely truthful (in fact, he's making it......more

Quotes

Praise for More Better Deals

"When funky books need to be written, Joe R. Lansdale writes them. . . . The plot is pure James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice, but steeped in hillbilly noir."—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review

"The prolific Mr. Lansdale…draws on the spirit and themes of James M. Cain in this stand-alone book, which works clever variations on such Cain classics as The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity.
 —Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal

"Lansdale really makes this used car purr."—Booklist (starred review)

"Highly enjoyable . . . Populated with an admirable array of laughable miscreants, this droll, savage novel is vintage Lansdale. The author's storytelling powers remain as strong as ever."—Publishers Weekly

" [A] down-and-dirty riff on Double Indemnity, a provocative new variation on James M. Cain’s noir classic...an enjoyably cynical cruise down the back roads to perdition."—Lisa Henricksson, Airmail

"He's genre dextrous, moving fleetly between westerns, mysteries, thrillers, horror, sci-fi, literary fiction, and nonfiction, and doing it all extremely well."—Publishers Weekly

"Southern crime legend Joe Lansdale channels his best James M. Cain world vision...Readers can expect to be transported in the usual Lansdale fashion, as nobody does those East Texas period details quite like Lansdale, who always delivers with a finely-crafted, engaging, compulsive crime story in his home terrain."—Dwyer Murphy, CrimeReads

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